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
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) is the only nuclear power plant operating in Massachusetts. It is located in the Manomet section of Plymouth on Cape Cod Bay, south of the tip of Rocky Point and north of Priscilla Beach. Like many similar plants, it was constructed by Bechtel, and is powered by a General Electric BWR 3 boiling water reactor inside of a Mark 1 pressure suppression type containment and generator. It has a 690 MW production capacity. Pilgrim Station produces about 14% of the electricity generated in Massachusetts. On October 13, 2015, plant owners announced