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2016-04-12 - [GB] GBRf 66718 & 721 line-up marks end of London Underground contract

Home News Archive 2016-04-12 - [GB] GBRf 66718 & 721 line-up marks end of London Underground contract


A special thanks goes out to Richard Gennis, who captured this small but special line-up on camera on March 24. GBRf 66718 and 66721 were lined up before being attached to the last service of a ten-year contract between GB Railfreight and London Underground Limited (LUL), which was 6Z63 Wellingborough Yard to Barking.


According to GB Railfreight this marked "the end of a highly successful 10-year contract with London Underground where we've been busy on many weekends providing engineering trains to work on LU Infrastructure BTRs (Ballasted Track Renewals). Since 2006, each weekend where our services have been used we've run anything between two and eight trains bringing sleepers, rails, ballast and materials from Wellinborough and Ferme Park over special connections onto the District or Metropolitan lines, and we have then taken away spoil and life expired track panels."



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