Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services Ltd., abbreviated DRS, is a British railway company that offers freight. The company in 1995 by British Nuclear Fuels for transport of radioactive materials and was founded by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority adopted April 1, 2005 is on the privatized British rail market in its form as a state enterprise, a rarity dar.
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For the fuel cycle of the British nuclear power stations played the State Railways British Rail since 1962 a major role since her fell to, among other things, the transport of fuel between the power plants and the reprocessing plants at Sellafield THORP and B205. When carried out in preparation for the privatization of British Rail division into different, largely independently operating business units, these transports were the division "Trans Rail" slammed.
In order not to be bound to a transport company and also to develop new business, founded the British Nuclear Fuels plc state. 1995 Direct Rail Services Limited ( DRS ) has its own railway company, which began operations in February 1996 and appeared as a competitor to "Trans Rail".
April 1, 2005 DRS moved into the ownership of the newly established Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. The main task of this government company is overseeing the decommissioning, dismantling and cleaning of designated nuclear facilities in the UK.
Transport services
Radioactive Material
The transport of radioactive material is the main business field of Direct Rail Services Limited ( DRS). However, in the first years after its foundation, carried out by DRS transports were largely confined to the area of Cumbria, as the connections between the power plants and Sellafield continue leavened by the privatized since 1996 and in the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ) former British Rail division "Trans Rail" were carried out. DRS had only taken over in 1996 settled as needed between the port of Barrow-in- Furness and Sellafield transports foreign, be worked up fuel, the weekly supply of chemicals from Runcorn to Sellafield and the regular transport of radioactive waste between Sellafield and the nearby repository at Drigg.
Starting in 1999, ran successively from the existing contracts between the power plant operators and the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway (EWS ). DRS was able to take these transports and EWS de facto oust from this business segment. Connections between the British nuclear power plants and Sellafield offered - according to a fixed schedule, about a week - so much more often than the German nuclear waste transports.
Container
In February 2001, DRS was commissioned by the forwarding Malcolm Group on a regular train service for the transport of containers and swap bodies between the Scottish Grangemouth and Daventry near Rugby. First two trains per direction per week were offered. This offer has now been extended to six trains per direction per week.
More container transport offers DRS since September 16, 2003 between the Freightliner terminal in Coatbridge near Glasgow and at Daventry. These, five times per week in each direction provided services done on behalf of the Malcolm Group. Again, on behalf of the Malcolm Group has existed since 2004 and a DRS train to container transport between Grangemouth and Aberdeen.
The end of 2004 DRS announced the establishment of a daily container train service between Daventry and the container port Thames port in Kent.
Since May 8, 2005 DRS also transports container trains between Ditton, near Widnes a terminal, and the port Purfleet in Essex. Users of this connection weekdays offered are the trucking companies AHC ( Warehousing) Ltd and Nova Trans UK.
Other services
In 1997, DRS by a sample transport for the forwarding tank Freight from Harrogate. Over a period of four weeks laden with milk truck semitrailers were by train from Penrith in Cumbria at Cricklewood, a district of London, carried. A long-term transport contract but it did not surrender.
In several years, DRS provided locomotives and personnel for companies that prevent on behalf of the rail infrastructure manager Railtrack and Network Rail means provided with spraying cars the growth of weeds in the track bed.
Locomotives
DRS currently has around 50 operational locomotives. In the early years of the company's procurement of brand new locomotives for financial reasons dropped out. At the same time privatized divisions of the former State Railways British Rail were not prepared to the rival company to sell vehicles. The first locomotives therefore procured the DRS of a construction company involved in the construction of the Euro tunnel. More locomotives were taken over by the Euro Star Group Ltd. after its plans to offer night trains failed.
By entering into the container transportation but DRS ordered brand new locomotives. Ten of the General Motors EMD procured large diesel locomotives JT42CWR (Series "class 66") are available since 2003. One of these locomotives wearing the company colors and lettering of the DRS wholesale Malcolm Group.