Train Fire at ICL Boulby Terminal

A fire broke out in a train at ICL Boulby’s Terminal at Tees Dock in northeast England on April 19. Firefighters spent an hour attacking the blaze, the local Gazette Live reported.

ICL Boulby said the fire, which occurred shortly before 7:15 a.m., broke out in a shunter locomotive at the depot and was quickly brought under control. No one was injured in the incident, and the terminal is operating normally. An investigation is now underway.

The company’s Tees Dock Terminal handles polysulfate products, the marketed form of polyhalite mined at the company’s Boulby mine.