Each of the three power stations – West Offaly at Shannonbridge, Co Offaly; Edenderry, Co Offaly; Lough Ree, Lanesborough, Co Longford – is the hub of an extensive rail network carrying heavy traffic. As an example, twelvetrains or "rakes" (locomotive and sixteen wagons) were in daily use sixteen hours a day at West Offaly in April 2009. Other, generally older locomotives, handle fuel trains, track trainloads of track, ash trains and permanent way gangs. the Edenderry Power Station is deriving a lot of its fuel from woodchip and types of biomass and the amount of peat arriving by rail is diminishing.