Manod railway station goods transported were nuclear fuel rods carried in nuclear flasks to and from Calder Hall in Cumbria (later known as Sellafield). The line was also used during the late 1980s for freight traffic to a siding at serving the explosives factory in Penrhyndeudraeth. Passenger trains briefly returned to the line in 1989, passing through to a temporary platform at . These trains ran for one summer in an attempt to encourage tourism at the power station. Few people used the service to visit the power station, most riders travelled "for the ride", so the following year tourist trains drove to
Zion Nuclear Power Station risks to the public. Workers involved in the decommissioning of the plant were using torches to cut bolts when some grease began to smoke and produce small flames, said Mark Walker of EnergySolutions, the contractor handling the decommissioning. The power plant is the tallest structure in Lake County. A January 7, 2017 "Chicago Sun-Times" article reported that the closing of the nuclear plant strongly and negatively affected the City of Zion economically. Zion Nuclear Power Station Zion Nuclear Power Station was the third dual-reactor nuclear power plant in the Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) network and served Chicago and the northern quarter