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GB Railfreight (GBRf) chief executive John Smith has been made an OBE in the King's New Year Honours List for services to the rail freight industry.
In a lifetime dedicated to the railway. he has driven the growth of GBRf since it was formed in 1999. He has also been at the forefront of GBRf raising over £1m for charitable causes including Alzheimer’s Society, Prostate Cancer UK, Headway and current partner, ...
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) says that its latest type of locomotive will operate solely on electricity or renewable fuels such as HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil). The Class 99 is due to enter service in late 2025 and will be the first heavy-haul freight locomotive capable of transporting significant volumes at mainline ...
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has appointed four new directors as part of broader changes to its leadership team. They are: Julie Garn, intermodal director; Alex Kirk, commercial director; Carl Kent, sales director; and Elizabeth Delafosse, general counsel and people director. The changes will help GB Railfreight deliver its ambitious five-year strategy ...
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GB Railfreight has agreed a new two-year contract extension with DP World to provide staff to prepare all freight trains departing from its London Gateway terminal. A total of 5,000 services depart and arrive at London Gateway every year, removing around 150,000 HGV movements from the roads and reducing carbon ...
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GB Railfreight has started a new five days a week intermodal service between London Gateway and iPort Doncaster. It will use new FEA-G intermodal wagons, each able to carry six teu , significantly increasing the volume of cargo that can be transported on each journey.
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GB Railfreight named a Class 66 diesel locomotive Ipswich Town in honour of the local football side on 12 January.
To mark the occasion, GB Railfreight chief executive, John Smith, Mediterranean Shipping Company’s managing director, Dan Everitt and Tractor Boys, chairman, Mike O’Leary and Chief Executive, Mark Ashton unveiled the name ...
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