GB Railfreight

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GB Railfreight Limited

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legal form Limited
founding April 1, 1999
Seat London , UK
management Karl Peter Goulding-Davis, John Smith
Number of employees 823
sales 185.38 million GBP
(approx. 207.1 million EUR )
Branch Freight transport
Website www.gbrailfreight.com
As of December 31, 2018

GB Railfreight Ltd diesel locomotive

GB Railfreight , abbreviated GBRf , is a British railway company that offers freight transport . The company, founded in 1999, is part of Hector Rail .

history

GB Railfreight Ltd was founded in 1999 by the then GB Railways Group Plc as an operator of rail freight transport. The GB Railways Group, which at the time also included the railway companies Anglia Railways and Hull Trains , became the first company to offer both passenger and freight transport since the privatization of British Rail .

GB Railfreight commenced business in April 2000 and began building corporate structures. The company received its approval as a railway transport company on July 18, 2000. Scheduled rail operations began on March 31, 2001 . With the acquisition of the GB Railways Group by the First Group in 2003 , the owner of GB Railfreight also changed. While it was part of the First Group, the company operated under the name First GBRf .

On June 1, 2010, GB Railfreight was sold to the Eurotunnel subsidiary Europorte for £ 26.3 million . In 2016, Europorte sold the company to the financial investor EQT , who brought GB Railfreight into Hector Rail .

Transport services

GB Railfreight had a market share of around 2% in the UK rail freight market in 2003 , which was roughly doubled by 2005.

Transports for Railtrack / Network Rail and Metronet

As early as April 2000, GB Railfreight was able to conclude an eight-year contract with Railtrack , the operator of the British public rail infrastructure at the time, for the transport of construction material (especially gravel ) to construction sites in the rail network , which will be valid from April 2001 . This contract continues to exist even after the restructuring of Railtrack to Network Rail . The transports were initially handled mainly in the east of England ( East Anglia , East Midlands ). On July 4, 2001, the contract was expanded to include transports in the regions of Yorkshire and the Humber , North East England and Greater London . At the beginning of 2004, the transport performance was increased again, in this case by around 30%.

GB Railfreight was also involved in the construction of Section 1 of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link by providing vehicles and personnel for the electrification work .

In October 2005, GB Railfreight and Metronet, the company responsible for maintaining part of the London Underground , signed a transport contract. In this context, GB Railfreight will handle the transport of materials between a central storage area in Wellingborough ( Northamptonshire ) and various construction sites in the London Underground network for a period of ten years .

Container

In February 2002, GB Railfreight began processing a large order for the freight forwarding company Medite Shipping, Ipswich . Since then, GB Railfreight has been transporting containers between the port of Felixstowe in East Anglia and the towns of Doncaster and Selby in Yorkshire for a period of five years . A second connection was established on April 24, 2002 between Felixstowe and Hams Hall near Birmingham . Both connections were initially offered three or twice a week, from September 2002 five times a week. Since January 16, 2006, five GB Railfreight container trains per week have been offered between Felixstowe and Doncaster, which are open to all shippers.

In October 2003, GB Railfreight started further container transports between Felixstowe and Hams Hall. In contrast to the transports for Medite Shipping, these trains are open to any interested company that would like to transport containers and swap bodies on this route without a long-term contract.

Also in autumn 2003 GB Railfreight was able to sign a contract with the supermarket chain ASDA , which includes the transport of containers between Felixstowe and Daventry (in the East Midlands).

Since autumn 2004, GB Railfreight has offered a train connection between the Midlands and the Thamesport container port in Kent twice a week .

plaster

In September 2002 GB Railfreight processed an order for the one-time transport of 20,000 tons of imported gypsum from Hull to Cumbria for British Gypsum . As a result, GB Railfreight was able to win a larger order from British Gypsum. Since March 2003 the company has been transporting gypsum, which is produced in the flue gas desulphurisation of the "West Burton" power station in Nottingham , in block trains to various destinations in England. Corresponding transports were started in September 2003 from the Drax power station near Selby . In addition, GB Railfreight also transports imported gypsum landed in the port of Southampton .

post Office

The British Post , Royal Mail, commissioned GB Railfreight in autumn 2004 to carry out a trial period of four months with the transport of letters and parcels between Willesden ( London ) and Shieldmuir near Glasgow . Royal Mail had given up regular rail transport, which the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS) was most recently responsible for, in early 2004. The test traffic was carried out from November 29 to December 22, 2004 and from January 10, 2005 to March 2005.

On May 19, 2005, Royal Mail and GB Railfreight signed a contract under which GB Railfreight initially transported mail in two pairs of trains between Willesden and Shieldmuir Post until March 2006. The term was then extended for another year. The contract can be extended by one year with mutual consent. The vehicles used, series 325 electric multiple units, are provided by Royal Mail.

night Train

For the Caledonian Sleeper night trains operated by Serco , Railfreight has been providing traction on the electric routes south of Glasgow and Edinburgh as well as the diesel locomotives on the north connecting routes to Fort William, Inverness and Aberdeen since 2015.

Flyovers

A niche dominated by GB Railfreight in the British rail freight transport market is the transfer of vehicles, for example from the manufacturer to the operator or from parking spaces for scrapping. The leasing company Angel Trains is one of GB Railfreight's largest customers .

Traction vehicles

GB Railfreight currently has 80 locomotives . The largest share of this is made up of 88 large diesel locomotives of the type JT42CWR ("class 66") newly purchased by General Motors-EMD in several series .

Operational locomotives
model series Type Construction year number power V / max F / max
Class 08 Shunting locomotive ( diesel ) from 1953 2 260 kW 32 km / h 156 kN
Class 47 Diesel locomotive 1962-1968 3 2,750 kW 153 km / h 267 kN
Class 50 Diesel locomotive 1967-1968 2 2,700 kW 161 km / h 216 kN
Class 59 Diesel locomotive 1985 1 2,460 kW 120 km / h 508 kN
Class 60 Diesel locomotive 1989-1993 10 3,100 kW 97 km / h 474 kN
Class 66 Diesel locomotive from 2002 88 2,385 kW 120 km / h 409 kN
Class 69 Diesel locomotive 1976-1984 approx. 10
Class 73 Two-power locomotive (electric / diesel) from 1966 15th 1,193 kW (electric)

447 kW (diesel)

145 km / h 179 kN
Class 92 Electric locomotive from 1993 12 5,040 kW 140 km / h 400 kN
Tuesday 8 Diesel locomotive 1996-1997 10 1,570 kW 120 km / h

credentials

  1. ↑ a b Full accounts made up to 31 December 2018 , accessed on May 15, 2020
  2. ↑ Eurotunnel buys GB Railfreight from FirstGroup . In: Railway Gazette . June 1, 2010. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
  3. ↑ EQT completes acquisition of GB Railfreight , at www.railwaygazette.com , accessed on May 15, 2020
  4. ↑ House of Commons: Memorandum by GB Railfreight (FOR 108) ( Memento from August 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (October 2003, English)
  5. ↑ www.railwaytechnologymagazine.com: GB Railfreight wins contract to haul Caledonian Sleepers , February 18, 2015 , accessed on June 12, 2017

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