All change at Carlisle #3. 92 041 on wagon load service 6O12 in Kingmoor Yard.
Once a common sight on the West Coast mainline were the EWS class 92's working wagon load or "Enterprise" freight services. At one stage the SNCF and EWS examples were in a common pool but by 2007 when this shot was taken EWS just had use of the 30 examples it owned. Nowadays the DB class 92 fleet (EWS's successor) is reduced to six for freights on HS1 and through the Channel Tunnel only. Kingmoor Yard still sees class 92's but only those operated by GB Railfreight. As for wagon load freight that was killed off in 2016 when DB Schenker decided what was left was no longer viable. The wagon load or "Enterprise" network as it was also known relied on a high volume core customer on trunk routes with less than trainload traffic hitching a ride on the same train to then be tripped to its destination. Increased competition in the mid 2000's with cherry picking by other FOC's decimated this principle with the first major setback coming when Freightliner took the Blue Circle/LaFarge cement traffic in Scotland off EWS which made just about all the residual wagon load traffic in Scotland unviable. The problem has perpetuated ever since with the train seen here killed off by GB Railfreight in 2016 when they took the MOD Government stores traffic off DB Schenker which meant the last trunk Enterprise route (Mossend to Didcot) had lost its core customer making what was left unviable.
In happier times 92 041 sits in the spring sunshine at Kingmoor Yard with 'Enterprise' train 6O12 the 17.21 to Eastleigh East Yard. The loco having arrived earlier with Enterprise feeder service 6M12 the 12.58 ex Mossend Yard.
All change at Carlisle #3. 92 041 on wagon load service 6O12 in Kingmoor Yard.
Once a common sight on the West Coast mainline were the EWS class 92's working wagon load or "Enterprise" freight services. At one stage the SNCF and EWS examples were in a common pool but by 2007 when this shot was taken EWS just had use of the 30 examples it owned. Nowadays the DB class 92 fleet (EWS's successor) is reduced to six for freights on HS1 and through the Channel Tunnel only. Kingmoor Yard still sees class 92's but only those operated by GB Railfreight. As for wagon load freight that was killed off in 2016 when DB Schenker decided what was left was no longer viable. The wagon load or "Enterprise" network as it was also known relied on a high volume core customer on trunk routes with less than trainload traffic hitching a ride on the same train to then be tripped to its destination. Increased competition in the mid 2000's with cherry picking by other FOC's decimated this principle with the first major setback coming when Freightliner took the Blue Circle/LaFarge cement traffic in Scotland off EWS which made just about all the residual wagon load traffic in Scotland unviable. The problem has perpetuated ever since with the train seen here killed off by GB Railfreight in 2016 when they took the MOD Government stores traffic off DB Schenker which meant the last trunk Enterprise route (Mossend to Didcot) had lost its core customer making what was left unviable.
In happier times 92 041 sits in the spring sunshine at Kingmoor Yard with 'Enterprise' train 6O12 the 17.21 to Eastleigh East Yard. The loco having arrived earlier with Enterprise feeder service 6M12 the 12.58 ex Mossend Yard.