Freight - Page 35

More than 100 sites transfer to Network Rail from three leading freight operators

Recently repatriated 59003 is in the UK and has been taken to Eastleigh Works for modifications.

Shipping firms and ports are urging an improved rail freight operation, including better pathing and freight running 365 days of the year

Electrification needs “an integrated strategy”, according to GB Railfreight Managing Director John Smith.

The first of GB Railfreight’s rebuilt Class 73s was due to begin testing at the Great Central Railway in Loughborough as this issue of RAIL went to press.

CONSTRUCTION of all the remaining 15 of GB Railfreight’s order of 21 Class 66s is now in progress in the Electro-Motive Diesel factory in Muncie, Indiana

“We need manufacturers to develop new compliant locomotives for the UK market."

Five brand new Class 66/7s were off-loaded at Newport Docks on July 11, after arriving in the UK by ship from America.

Five brand new GB Railfreight Class 66s have left the Electro-Motive Diesel factory in Muncie (Indiana) and made the 700-mile trip to Norfolk (Virginia).

Overnight freight returned to London Euston on June 4/5, for a second trial to demonstrate a concept identifying underused infrastructure at the terminus.