All DB Cargo UK articles
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Rail Business UKRoyal Train to be decommissioned
UK: The Royal Household has announced that the Royal Train is to be decommissioned.
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Rail Business UKDouble first as freight train runs to Northampton terminal via East West Rail
UK: A freight train operated by DB Cargo UK has become the first to use the full length of the Oxford – Bletchley section of the East West Rail route and the first to serve a newly-built Strategic Rail Freight Interchange in Northampton.
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Rail Business UKRefurbished steel wagons return to service
UK: DB Cargo UK has returned to service the first of 60 BAA bogie steel wagons which are being refurbished to carry imported slab and coil to Tata Steel’s Port Talbot site. DB Polska is manufacturing 40 ft frames for the wagons at its engineering facility ...
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Rail Business UKDB Cargo awards Class 66 ETCS installation contract
UK: DB Cargo UK has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract to begin fitting Trainguard 200 onboard ETCS units to its fleet of EMD Class 66 diesel locomotives. Work on an initial nine locos will begin at DB Cargo UK’s Toton depot in July, with completion planned ...
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Rail Business UKFreight operator’s breakdown and recovery teams take delivery of vans
UK: DB Cargo UK’s breakdown and recovery teams have taken delivery of 10 Iveco vans as a permanent replacement for road-rail vehicles taken out of service in 2023. The 7 tonne vans carry heavy-lifting and other equipment and have been adapted to ensure recovery teams will ...
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Rail Business UKDB Cargo UK’s royal warrant renewed by King
UK: King Charles III has awarded DB Cargo UK a new warrant for the operation and maintenance of the royal train. The royal cypher will be updated on locomotives 67006 ‘Royal Sovereign’ and 67005 ‘Queen’s Messenger’, which will be renamed ‘King’s Messenger’. A royal warrant of ...
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Rail Business UKDB Cargo UK opens ETCS training centre
UK: DB Cargo UK has officially opened an ETCS training centre at its Doncaster headquarters. There is a Class 66 full cab simulator as well as six ultra-light simulators, two instructor stations, training rooms, a breakout area, study rooms and kitchen. ‘We have more than 600 ...
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Rail Business UKFreight operator says HVO is the only alternative to electrification
UK: ‘Until a firm commitment is made to electrification of the UK network, hydro-treated vegetable oil is the only credible solution to rail freight decarbonisation’, according to DB Cargo UK’s Chief Sales Officer Roger Neary. ’More services could be operated with HVO if the right policies ...
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Rail Business UKRoyal Mail to switch postal traffic from electric trains to road
UK: Royal Mail has decided to stop using rail to move letters and parcels, replacing its electric train services with road haulage from October 10.
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Rail Business UKDB Cargo UK to increase use of digital and AI technologies
UK: ‘Greater use of digital and AI technologies is a key aspect of our ongoing transformation plan and will enable us to deliver even better customer service and product innovation, as well as improving our overall efficiency’, DB Cargo UK Chief Executive Andrea Rossi said when the ...
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Rail Business UK‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign highlights how everyone benefits
UK: The Rail Freight Group has launched a ‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign emphasising the sector’s critical role in transporting essential goods. RFG is calling on the next government to make a number of targeted interventions, explaining that funding the electrification of 100 km of connecting ...
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Rail Business UKClass 66 ETCS testing underway
UK: Dynamic testing has begun with a DB Cargo UK Class 66 diesel locomotive which has been retrofitted with ETCS as the First in Class for the roll-out of the digital signalling technology across the most common type of freight loco in the UK. As part ...
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Rail Business UKJobs to go at DB Cargo UK
UK: DB Cargo UK has announced plans to cut jobs, saying its German parent company DB Cargo ‘has informed its European entities that it can no longer sustain the level of losses being incurred across the group’. DB Cargo UK has proposed the loss of 95 ...
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Rail Business UKWagon component supplier forms partnerships
UK: CWE Ltd has signed a framework agreement to supply new and refurbished parts and services for DB Cargo UK’s locomotives and wagons, and has also partnered with MCL Rail to provide wagon maintenance services. The 12-month agreement with DB Cargo UK is the two companies’ first ...
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Rail Business UKDB Cargo UK withdraws Class 90 electric locos
UK: DB Cargo UK has taken what it calls ‘the bold decision’ to withdraw its entire fleet of Class 90 electric locomotives, citing ‘the cost of running and maintaining this fleet given the extraordinary economic pressures facing our sector’. The operator currently has 24 of the ...
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Rail Business UKDiesel and HVO locomotive fuel compared directly
UK: DB Cargo UK has used a load bank at Toton depot to directly compare the performance and emissions from a Class 60 diesel locomotive when fuelled by hydrotreated vegetable oil and by conventional diesel. A purpose-built exhaust extension tube was fitted to the locomotive to ...
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Rail Business UKETCS knowledge sharing in action
UK: DB Cargo UK recently took a Class 66 diesel locomotive to Govia Thameslink Railway’s Hornsey depot, so the freight operator could learn more about the passenger operator’s approach to rolling out ETCS. The companies have been working together for months to share their knowledge, as ...
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Rail Business UKWelfare vans to improve conditions for breakdown and recovery teams
UK: DB Cargo UK has taken delivery of a fleet of Ford and Iveco welfare vans fitted with toilet, catering and cleaning facilities for use by its breakdown and recovery teams. The teams based at Didcot, Wigan and Millerhill respond to more than 100 incidents a ...
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Rail Business UKTrain driver sentenced for Bromsgrove collision
UK: A train driver who was distracted by a using mobile phone leading to a collision between a DB Cargo locomotive and a passenger train has been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment, suspended for 18 months. He must also undertake 120 h of unpaid work and ...
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Rail Business UKClass 66 freight loco to be fitted with ETCS under East Coast Digital Programme
UK: DB Cargo announced on November 8 that work had started to equip a Class 66 diesel locomotive with the latest iteration of ETCS.