Every 24 hours, more than 8,000 tonnes of food, products and other essentials pass over the England-Scotland border at Gretna in freight trains – the greenest way of transporting food, drink and other essentials in bulk.

As Scotland does not have any deep-sea container ports, it relies on the West Coast main line to keep supplies moving north.

Next day those goods can be found on sale in supermarkets, high street shops and hospitality venues like Glasgow’s huge COP26 conference complex on the banks of the river Clyde.

The West Coast main line and its key spurs moving more than 1 million tonnes of freight every week.

Every 24 hours, 188,000 tonnes of critical supplies move by rail between London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Each freight train – pulled by one locomotive – takes up to 76 heavy goods vehicles off the road.

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