RFG
Posted on: 11 November 2011
The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has warmly welcomed the arrival of DB Schenker’s first regular continental gauge train to use High Speed 1, the first freight service to utilise the high speed line.
The train arrived into Barking from Poland at 0100 on Friday 11 November carrying a range of manufactured parts and components for the automotive sector and an extensive range of goods for the food and retail markets.
HS1 is the only European-sized railway in the UK and as a result, the train can be loaded with European-sized curtain sided swap bodies, opening up a new freight and logistics market.
The train, which has strengthened trading links between Poland and the UK, operates once a week leaving Wroclaw, in Poland, late on a Tuesday evening, arriving into Barking, London, early on Friday morning the same week.
Tony Berkeley, RFG Chairman, said: “This is the culmination of five years hard work to get such traffic accepted on HS1. RFG is supporting train operators in their negotiations with HS1 on allowing more freight trains to operate on the line at night.
“This first regular service demonstrates the demand for such services, and we hope that this is the first of many more,” he added.
The service has been introduced utilising DB Schenker Rail's pan European rail freight network, offering customers integrated logistics solutions across the whole of Europe. Operation of the train has been led by DB Schenker Rail UK and DB Schenker Rail Polska, while the marketing of the service in Poland has been assisted by DB Schenker Logistics.
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