GB Railfreight

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight

(04/11/2013 16:33)507022 Wrote:  

(04/11/2013 13:41)wirralbus Wrote:  Freight paths once the line is electrified are going to become even harder to find between the mass of trains that will be using the line , when the WTT comes out with the line in full swing there will probably only be one or two paths for freights on the section west of Earlestown.

Most services to/from Lime St tend to be on a clock-face pattern and there's no reason to expect that to change radically after electrification, so if there are one or two freight paths available, then they should be available most hours outside of the peaks, but only time will tell when the WTT appears....

Please see my further comments under the Lancashire Triangle thread.

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight
Ex German 66751 arrived at Tuebrook on Christmas Eve for use on Ironbridge biomass workings.

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight

(26/12/2013 11:08)childwallblues Wrote:  Ex German 66751 arrived at Tuebrook on Christmas Eve for use on Ironbridge biomass workings.

66751 was still at Tuebrook Sidings this morning but had gone by this afternoon.

[Sprinterdriver]

RE: GB Railfreight
It worked a containerised Biomass train to Seaforth and should leave on Monday morning with 4G01. I believe this was its first revenue earning train in this country.

Pic here (credit Stuart Daniels): http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuarts-phots/11590567495/

SD.

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight
66735 and 66741 arrived at Tuebrook Sidings at 0530 this morning with a 25 wagon 2200 ton train of biomass from Tyne Dock. It departed at 0830 for Drax Power Station. This was a trial presumably assessing the viability of such a working.

[X782 NWX]

RE: GB Railfreight
GBRF have confirmed that they are to purchase 16 class 92s

[wirralbus]

RE: GB Railfreight
This purchase of the Class 92 locomotives could also be classed as a good enviromental measure , as the services they will be operated on would almost certaintly have been operated by diesels otherwise .

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight

(01/02/2014 19:45)Daniel Anderton Wrote:  GBRF have confirmed that they are to purchase 16 class 92s

These Class 92s are those owned by Eurotunnel.
92010/28/32/32/38/43/44 already operate for GBRf.
92006/14/18/20/21/23/33/40 are stored at Coquelles, France and 92045/46 at WABTEC Loughborough.

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight
GBRf are to purchase 21 new Class 66.

[childwallblues]

RE: GB Railfreight
GBRf are to take over operation of the Dagenham to Garston car train from DB Schencker. They propose to use Class 92s on the service. Shunters are to be based at the terminals with 09009 at Dagenham (ex Trafford Park) and 08527 at Garston (on hire from Barrow Hill).