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Originally Posted by 62440
Right then Peter. In the lead up to privatisation the "Sectors" of the BR freight side were divvied up into three outfits each with it's own locos and stock. Load Haul in black and orange livery, Transrail in two tone grey with a big white T on a blue background, and Mainline Freight in a "Aircraft Blue" livery with name and details in silver. A lot of money was spent on repainting locos etc, the idea being to flog off each outfit as a going concern "To the highest bidder". Hah! Along comes whoever it was and buys up the whole shootin' match and forms EWS with it.
That's the basics of it, someone with a better memory of the facts will probably cross the t's and dot the i's.
Regards, 62440.
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Hey wait a minute you have forgotten the "other" Freight TOC ! namely Railfreight Distribution (RfD) which was the last of the BR sectors to survive under the British Rail banner,they were the company chosen to work the Channel Tunnel traffic,Freightliner and Car carrying trains along with all the MOD traffic,from1994 till 1998 when Freightliner "Broke " away,then they had the misfortune to be "given" to EWS and formed EWS International(the for runner of Euro Cargo) in 1998.
In 1994 they had 72 class 47 locomotive,the only 47's fitted for multiple working, all maintained (above"B" exams) at Tinsley.Rfd traincrew depots were at Saltley(where I worked from 1963 to 2006),Dollands Moor,Wembley,Crewe and Ipswich and Mossend.