GB Railfreight operates first Channel Tunnel train [Railway Gazette]
Date: 06/11/2014
UK freight operator GB Railfreight ran its first service through the Channel Tunnel on the night of November 3, hauling a Dourges - London intermodal service between Calais-Frthun and Barking International Rail Freight Terminal.
The train was operated under a 'hook-and-haul' agreement with sister Groupe Eurotunnel company Europorte France, which has a contract to move containers from Dourges to Barking for logistics company John G Russell Ltd. GBRf used two of the 16 Class 92 electric locomotives which it had purchased from Europorte earlier this year.
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