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    GB Railfreight (GBRf) is a rail freight company in the United Kingdom. As of 2022, it is owned by the global investment company Infracapital, itself a...
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    by GB Railfreight, and then Direct Rail Services. The last of more than 500 built over an 18-year period was No 66779, Evening Star, delivered to GB Railfreight...
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    five moving to GB Railfreight and one to Great Western Railway, leaving DRS with 57304, 57307, 57308 and 57309. In June 2023, GB Railfreight began leases...
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    in 2018, 16 locomotives, the majority of their fleet, were sold to GB Railfreight. In late 2008, Colas commenced operating steel trains from Immingham...
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    usage in the Channel tunnel. Locomotives of this type are operated by GB Railfreight/Europorte 2 and DB Cargo UK. In France, a number were also owned and...
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    preservation. This was followed by 60 050.[citation needed] In July 2018, GB Railfreight bought all ten of Colas Rail's Class 60 locomotives, Colas having replaced...
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    brought by GB Railfreight. They have since been repainted along with First GBRf liveried 73141, 212 and 73213 at St. Leonards Depot into GB Railfreight livery...
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    used as standby locomotives to rescue failed Class 325 units working GB Railfreight parcels trains. The fleet increased to four at one point, but finally...
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    Stamford: Key Publishing. pp. 4–21. "GB Railfreight brings hardy 'Yeoman Highlander' back to the UK". London: GB Railfreight. 19 August 2014. Archived from...
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    company First GBRf was acquired in 2010 from FirstGroup and rebranded as GB Railfreight. The subsidiary Europorte Services was established (2010) as the operating...
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    Railways franchise from January 1997 and launching Hull Trains and GB Railfreight. GB Railways was also involved in the management of the Estonian rail...
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    catenary wires without activating the diesel engine. On 29 April 2022, GB Railfreight announced an order for 30 new Class 99 locomotives, financed by Beacon...
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    Class 69 was developed to fulfil the needs of the rail freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRf), which was unable to purchase additional Class 66 diesel locomotives...
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  • international talent management company, and he became a brand ambassador for GB Railfreight. Shortly after, he shot an ASOS promotional video on a GBRf locomotive...
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  • "Freightliner unveils first class 90". Modern Railways. p. 20. "Our trains". GB Railfreight. Retrieved 13 September 2020. Marsden 2019, p. 26 "66s from Sweden"...
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  • concession. During August 2003, FirstGroup purchased GB Railways, which owned Anglia Railways and GB Railfreight and held 80% of the shares in Hull Trains. In...
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  • using the first example of the type was conducted by the train operator GB Railfreight during early 2022. During July 2019, British locomotive manufacturer...
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    deal to lease all five locomotives to the British freight operator GB Railfreight, Colas purchased five replacement locomotives (66 846–66 850, formerly...
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    Hector Rail strategically aligned with the British freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRF) following its acquisition by EQT AB; it was sold four years later...
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    Class 60s 'super' again". Rail. Devereux, Nigel (4 January 2018). "GB Railfreight buys DB Cargo Class 66s". Railway Magazine. Retrieved 17 September 2020...
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    Stadler at a new facility in Leicester. In April 2022, Beacon Rail and GB Railfreight signed an agreement for the supply of 30 locomotives to replace their...
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    the UK" (Press release). Alstom. 12 February 2015. GB Rail Freight (17 February 2015). "GB Railfreight boosts rail services business with Serco Caledonian...
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    2015, GB Railfreight commenced a contract to haul the Caledonian Sleeper with 67004 repainted and renamed for use on the service. When GB Railfreight started...
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    Dewsbury, Dairycoates (Hull) and Marsh Lane/Hunslet (Leeds) by GB Railfreight. GB Railfreight also operate train services of limestone to Small Heath and...
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    also carries freight trains operated by DB Schenker, Freightliner and GB Railfreight, to the port of Felixstowe. The line was opened by the Felixstowe Railway...
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    Services set up by British Nuclear Fuels. GB Railfreight was a new freight company established in 1998 by GB Railways. It was later owned by FirstGroup...
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    British Rail Class 66 No.66779, last member of its class, named by GB Railfreight in May 2016 List of preserved BR Standard Class 9F locomotives The WG...
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  • GB Rail may refer to: GB Railfreight, railway freight operator in the United Kingdom GB Railways, former owner of train companies in the United Kingdom...
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    restore it to full working order. In April 2011, 55 022 was hired in by GB Railfreight for bauxite freight working between North Blyth and the Lynemouth aluminium...
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    (Freightliner), to four main operators, DB Cargo, Direct Rail Services and GB Railfreight, although other entrants have tried to run intermodal trains. Many of...
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