All GB Railfreight articles
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight electro-diesel loco on show in Berlin
INNOTRANS: One of the 30 Stadler Class 99 electro-diesel locomotives ordered by GB Railfreight through leasing company Beacon Rail is a highlight of the manufacturer’s presence at InnoTrans, the world’s largest railway industry trade fair which is being held in Berlin on September 24-27. The first ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight opens £2·5m locomotive maintenance facility
UK: GB Railfreight has opened a £2·5m facility at Tonbridge in Kent which will be used to maintain Class 73, 69 and 66 locomotives. It complements GB Railfreight’s existing sites at Doncaster and Peterborough, and will be operated by partners including EMD, Wabtec and St Leonard’s ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight deploys diesel-battery hybrid shunting locos
UK: GB Railfreight has leased four Clayton Equipment Class 18 Hybrid+ shunting locomotives from Beacon Rail to support its work delivering materials for infrastructure manager Network Rail. Developed by Clayton primarily for industrial use and as a replacement for the ageing Class 08 diesel shunters, the ...
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Rail Business UKStadler to show GB Railfreight electro-diesel loco in Berlin
INNOTRANS: One of the 30 Stadler Class 99 electro-diesel locomotives ordered by GB Railfreight through leasing company Beacon Rail will be a highlight of the manufacturer’s presence at InnoTrans, the world’s largest railway industry trade fair which is to be held in Berlin on September 24-27. ...
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Rail Business UKGBRf runs final UK power station coal train
UK: GB Railfreight operated what is expected to be the final coal train to a British power station on June 28, delivering fuel from the port of Immingham to Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire. The service carried what is scheduled to be the last shipment to Uniper’s Ratcliffe-on-Soar ...
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Rail Business UK‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign highlights how everyone benefits
UK: The Rail Freight Group has launched a ‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign emphasising the sector’s critical role in transporting essential goods. RFG is calling on the next government to make a number of targeted interventions, explaining that funding the electrification of 100 km of connecting ...
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Rail Business UKZephir shunters to replace Class 08 locos at steel works
UK: Leasing company Porterbrook has bought three Zephir LOK 16.300 depot shunters which will be leased to GB Railfreight for use at the Celsa Steel works in Cardiff. The LOK 16.300 is intended as a more sustainable option than the Class 08 diesel shunting locomotives currently ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight orders wagons to increase capacity
UK: Leasing company Porterbrook is to supply GB Railfreight with 50 JNA-X box wagons for transporting bulk construction materials including ballast and stone. To be built by Greenbrier, the wagons are expected to arrive in the third quarter of 2024. They are intended to replace older ...
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Rail Business UKFreight operator trials brake monitoring technology
UK: GB Railfreight has completed a four-week test of technology developed in collaboration with Icomera, DG8 and SENSEi which uses battery-powered remote sensors to share status and out-of-tolerance alerts with drivers and control centres during rolling stock pre-checks. Drivers receive sensor data directly to an app ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight takes delivery of 150 wagons
UK: The last of 150 wagons which leasing company Porterbrook has ordered from Greenbrier for use by GB Railfreight have been delivered. The companies said on-time delivery represented a significant achievement, as the project was impacted by the pandemic, supply chain disruption, a surge in inflation ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight opens health and wellbeing centres
UK: GB Railfreight has opened dedicated health and wellbeing centres at its offices in London and Doncaster. The centres are equipped to check hearing, vision and blood pressure, and to undertake electrocardiograms, both for new staff and as part of annual check-ups. ‘These new centres provide ...
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Rail Business UKClass 99 locomotive maintenance contract awarded
UK: Stadler has been awarded a contract to provide full maintenance and servicing of the 30 Class 99 six-axle electro-diesel locomotives ordered by leasing company Beacon Rail for use by GB Railfreight. The service contract will start once the first loco has been handed over in ...
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Rail Business UKGB Railfreight to lease Akiem locomotives
UK: GB Railfreight has announced a 10-year deal with leasing company Akiem which will see 11 EMD Class 77 and 66 diesel locomotives transferred from Continental Europe to the UK between January 2023 and May 2024. The locos will be modified for use on the British ...
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Rail Business UKWrexham line compromise shows the need for more capacity
UK: Capacity has been allocated to enable an increase in passenger services between Wrexham and Bidston, but local stakeholders say the compromise required shows the need for urgent investment in the route.
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Rail Business UKWork to begin on £4·7m wagon maintenance depot
UK: Leeds-based design-and-build contractor Cairn Cross Engineering will begin work next month to construct a £4·7m wagon maintenance depot for GB Railfreight next to the East Coast Main Line in Peterborough. The development follows the construction of GBRf’s £3m headquarters in the city last year. GBRf ...
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Rail Business UKJNA-X box wagon prototype for GB Railfreight rolled out
UK: The first of 50 JNA-X box wagons ordered by leasing company Porterbrook for use by GB Railfreight has been rolled out at Greenbrier Europe’s factory at Arad in Romania. The order was announced on March 15, and deliveries are planned in two batches in September ...
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Rail Business UKFlexible wagons to refresh infrastructure fleet
UK: Swiss wagon leasing group Wascosa marked its entry into the UK freight market with an event at London Victoria station on June 28 to unveil three designs of wagon it is delivering to refresh Network Rail’s infrastructure maintenance fleet. The company is supplying 570 vehicles ...
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In depthInterview: ‘Give us the infrastructure and we will invest to grow’
UK: Despite the challenges of the pandemic, private operator GB Railfreight is investing for growth amid a strong recovery. But as CEO John Smith tells Tony Miles, more needs to be done by policymakers to ensure the company’s two decades of expansion can continue unabated.
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Rail Business UKClass 99 electro-diesel locomotive order confirmed
UK: GB Railfreight, leasing company Beacon Rail and Stadler have signed an agreement for the supply of 30 Class 99 six-axle electro-diesel locomotives for entry into service from 2025. The operator said they would be the first electro-diesel locomotives capable of hauling heavy freight at main ...