FirstGBRf is a British freight train operating company. Formerly called GB Railfreight, it became part of FirstGroup when they acquired its parent company, GB Railways.
It is currently the largest British-owned freight operator on the British network. It has several bases including Peterborough and March: a great deal of the First GBRf business is centred on East Anglia and the southern metals.
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Fleet Usage
The Class 08 shunters are used for shunting work in the FirstGBRf depots.
The Class 66 fleet sees use on the main freight flows and the five Metronet liveried 66's are also employed on London Underground maintenance. First GBRf Class 66s were also hired to Fastline Freight to operate their coal flows until their own Class 66's had been delivered.
FirstGBRf use their small class 73 fleet in the south on engineering trains and other work such as ECS moves for passenger operators.
The Class 325 fleet is used for Royal Mail trains from London to the North and mostly run under their own power; however, during engineering work or due to unit failure they can be seen being hauled both by diesel and electric locomotives[1].
Services
The company operates several different types of freight traffic.
- Mail traffic between London, Warrington and Scotland for which it transports over 1 million items of post each day.[2] (Soon to be taken over by DBS)
- 3 daily Intermodal services from Felixstowe to Hams Hall
- Intermodal traffic from Felixstowe to Selby
- Intermodal traffic from Felixstowe to Excel Doncaster
- Gypsum traffic in northern and southern England with a new service starting to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station
- Infrastructure maintenance trains in East Anglia and South-East England as well as a Loaded Rail service from Scunthorpe to Wellingborough
- Withdrawn and stored stock movements
- New stock delivery movements for Angel Trains and Bombardier
- Maintenance and operation of snowploughs in East Anglia and South East England
- Operation of engineering trains for Transport for London on nine of the twelve London Underground lines
- First GBRf entered the coal market in 2007 and operates coal trains between Tyne Dock and Redcar to Drax Power Station, Immingham to Eggborough, Thoresby and Welbeck to Cottam and West Burton as well as ones between Widdrington and Lynemouth and from Butterwell to Daw Mill
- "Petrochem Carless" tank trains from Parkeston to North Walsham as well as the "Mud Oil" train between Parkeston and Aberdeen
GBRf also operate the longest intermodal service to and from the Port Of Felixstowe on thier night and morning Hams Hall services. Currently this stands at 26 FEA wagons.
Fleet details
| Class | Image | Type | Introduced | Fleet Size | Wheel Arr/Cars In Set | Numbers |
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| Class 08 |  |
Shunter | 1953 | 2 | 0-6-0 | 08451/885 |
| Class 66 |  |
Diesel locomotive | 2002 | 32 | Co-Co | 66701-732 |
| Class 73 |  |
Electro-diesel locomotive | 1966 | 7 | Bo-Bo | 73141, 73203-209, 73212-213 |
| Class 325 |  |
Electric multiple unit (EMU) | 1996 | 16 | 4-car | 325001-325016 |
External links
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- ^ http://railwayherald.com/issues/RHUK/Issue145.pdf
- ^ http://www.gbrailfreight.com/first-gbrf-mail-train-services---mail-and-parcels---royal-mail/p_103/
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