DB Cargo UK
| DB Cargo UK
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| legal form | Limited |
| founding | February 1996 (as EWS) |
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Doncaster ,
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| Branch | Railway companies |
| Website | uk.dbcargo.com |
DB Cargo UK is a British railway company and the largest rail freight operator on the island of Great Britain, as well as the largest freight customer of the Eurotunnel . The company belongs to the Deutsche Bahn AG group .
history
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The company was founded in February 1996 under the name English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS). At that time, during the privatization of the British railways, the American railroad company Wisconsin Central bought four sub-companies of British Rail's freight operations ( Rail Express Systems , Loadhaul , Transrail Freight and Mainline Freight ) together with investors and merged them as EWS. EWS later took over the National Power Rail division .
In 1996 the company took over much of British Rail's freight business.
Since the Wisconsin Central was taken over by the Canadian National Railway in January 2001 , the Canadian National was the largest shareholder until 2007.
The 1987 agreement between Eurotunnel , the British Railways Board (BRB) and SNCF guaranteed the two railway companies 50 percent of the capacity of the Eurotunnel each by 2052. In 1997, after the rail privatization in Great Britain, the BRB transferred this right to EWS .
From the end of 1998 the company, in cooperation with DB Cargo , offered a pair of express freight trains between Cologne-Gremberg and Wembley through the Channel Tunnel five times a week . In January 2001, DB, EWS and SNCF negotiated a participation by Deutsche Bahn in EWS after the 42.5 percent stake in Wisconsin Central and a stake in Goldman Sachs were up for sale at the end of November 2000 . Talks were interrupted a few weeks later when Wisconsin Central itself was bought out.
EWS was the second private railway company after Connex to receive a safety certificate for operation in France on October 3, 2005. In France, DB Schenker Rail (UK) operates freight trains through its subsidiary Euro Cargo Rail (ECR) in competition with SNCF and Veolia . In July 2008 EWS also received the safety certificate for Spain.
The largest shareholders in EWS until November 26, 2007 were Canadian National with 31.6 percent, the New Zealand investment bank Fay Richwhite with 16.6 percent, the US investment fund Berkshire Partners with 16.8 percent and the US investment bank Goldman Sachs with 5.8 percent. The remaining 30 percent were held by smaller shareholders. EWS has been wholly owned by Deutsche Bahn AG since November 26; From January 1, 2009 the company traded under the name DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd. , since March 2, 2016 the name has been changed to DB Cargo UK .
With its French subsidiary Euro Cargo Rail, DB Cargo UK has been offering European combined transport between Great Britain and Spain, Belgium, Germany and Italy since 2008. Around 1,000 trains a year are marketed under the Euro Cargo Rail brand.
DB Cargo UK employs around 5,000 people in Great Britain.
- Axiom Rail
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Rolling stock
DB Cargo UK has around 500 locomotives, including 250 class 66 diesel locomotives , developed in collaboration with the EMD division of General Motors (now Electro-Motive Diesel ), and 30 class 67 locomotives with a top speed of 125 miles / h (200 km / h) and 14,000 cars.
The standard color of the vehicles is a chestnut red, taken over from Wisconsin Central , with a golden band on the long side with the word “EWS” in the same chestnut red. On older vehicles there is an ampersand (“&”) between the “W” and the “S”; this was later dropped. The fronts of the locomotives are painted in the typical yellow of the British railways.
DB Cargo UK also owns passenger cars as charter trains for special trips or social events and also operates the Royal Train , the saloon car train of the British royal family . For its own purposes, DB Cargo UK has a “ Company Train ” (internally “CoT”), which is pulled by a class 67 locomotive and consists of a conference car, a sleeping car, a dining car and a control car for pushing operations. The locomotive and control car are silver-gray and both have a video camera in the direction of travel, the other cars are painted in the company's chestnut red color.
All vehicles comply with UIC - gauge UK1, the somewhat narrower than that on the European continent as a standard UIC profiles GA spread to GC.
Traction vehicles
After the formation of EWS by Wisconsin Central , the new owner announced that all old locomotives from British Rail's inventory would be retired and replaced with new ones. 250 machines of the 66 series were ordered. Nevertheless, there are still some older locomotives in use at DB Cargo UK. Since only around a third of the rail network in Britain is electrified and there are also two different power systems (25 kV ~ 50 Hz and 750 V = power rail), DB Cargo UK relies primarily on diesel propulsion.
The powerful electric locomotives of the 92 series are v. a. used for the passage through the Eurotunnel, with a Class 66 diesel locomotive being dragged along in the train, which takes over the traction on the actual journey of the train beyond the Dollands Moor and Calais-Fréthun marshalling yards at the two exits of the Eurotunnel.
| Type | Application area | number | Drive type | Power (bhp) |
Top speed |
Axis formula |
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| Class 66 | Freight trains | 250 | diesel-electric | 3000 | 120 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 67 | Freight and passenger trains |
30th | diesel-electric | 2980 | 200 km / h | Bo'Bo ' |
| Class 37 | Freight and passenger trains |
5 | diesel-electric | 1750/1800 | 140 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 59 | Freight trains | 6th | diesel-electric | 3300 | 75 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 60 | Freight trains | 100 | diesel-electric | 3100 | 100 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 90 | Freight and passenger trains |
25th | electrical 25 kV ~ 50 Hz |
5000 | 177 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 92 | Freight and passenger trains |
<30 | electrical 25 kV ~ 50 Hz / 750 V = |
6760/5360 | 140 km / h | Co'Co ' |
| Class 08 | Shunting operation | ~ 44 | diesel-electric | 350 | 24-32 km / h | C. |
| Class 09 | Shunting operation | 35 | diesel-electric | 350 | 44 km / h | C. |
Traffic performance
DB Cargo UK moves around 8,000 trains a week and is the only rail freight operator that operates in all parts of the island of Britain and operates a freight connection with the continent through the Channel Tunnel.
EWS had also transported mail until the Royal Mail decided on January 9, 2004 to stop transporting mail by rail. The decision was reversed almost a year later, but since then mail has only been carried to a limited extent by competitor GB Railfreight .
From 2010 onwards, the company plans to operate freight trains on the HS1 high-speed line. These trains are to be pulled by modified locomotives of the 92 series .
In the mid-2010s, DB Cargo UK experienced a dramatic slump in coal (to 1/4 earlier volumes) and steel transports (to 2/3). The main reasons for the development of coal transports were, in addition to a legal change ( CO2 tax ), a low gas price level . There are combined cycle power plants switching from coal to gas firing operation.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Report from DB Cargo to Great Britain . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 3/2001, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 128.
- ↑ Network Statement from Eurotunnel
- ↑ Freightnews. (PDF; 3.0 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 2, 2014 ; Retrieved February 18, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ News update shortly . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 5/2001, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 224.
- ↑ Notification of safety certificate for EWS in France . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 12/2005, p. 590.
- ↑ Yahoo! Finanzas July 8th, 2008 Economía / Empresas.- La británica EWS, autorizada para competir con Renfe en transporte de mercancías por tren ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish)
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn November 26, 2007 DB subsidiary EWS will be tripling combined transport by rail through channel tunnels from next year
- ↑ Renaming to DB Cargo UK. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 15, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ About Axiom Rail ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Suspension Systems ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Freight trains to use High Speed 1 from 2010 Report of the Railway Gazette International from April 16, 2009
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/18/rail-freight-business-db-cargo-to-cut-900-uk-jobs-as-coal-and-st/
Web links
- tagesschau.de: Deutsche Bahn takes over British trains ( Memento from August 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- DB Cargo UK (English)
Two class 67 locomotives in front of a freight train. The front one bears the colors of the Royal Train
The EWS “Company Train”
An EWS 'Class 92' locomotive called 'Victor Hugo'
