UK’S FREIGHT FAST
Posted on 14 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The First GBRf company has significantly increased its services with a new high in the amount of trains run and a 40% increase compared to the same period last year. Latest performance figures show that First GBRf ran 1,364 trains from 26 July to 22 August 2009, a steady increase from the 1,262 it ran during the previous period and a sizeable rise from the 972 trains it ran in the same period in 2008. In addition to showing a record number of trains run, the figures also showed the latest First GBRf performance results which record reliability, the number of trains run as scheduled, at 99.4%.
The increase is largely due to the additional coal flows the freight haulier has secured which has seen coal services more than double (an increase of 51%) from 2008. The new coal services include running coal sets for EDF Energy from Nottinghamshire collieries, and additional flows from Birmingham to Hull for Drax Power.
First GBRf has also increased the size of its intermodal business which now includes a third service to Hams Hall and journeys from Felixstowe to Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal and Doncaster for Allport.
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