Freightliner a Genesee & Wyoming Company. Interesting! I need know more bout that. GW owns over 120 different railroads here. Do we they own the RR there or just 😮tge loco or what?
Our railways were privatised in a very complicated way. Network Rail own all the track signalling and structures like tunnels / bridges. All the rolling stock and locomotives were put up for sale and bought by leasing companies who rent them out, and companies like Freightliner were formed before the sell off called shadow companies, these were bought and got contracts to carry freight, and hired in locomotives from the leasing companies, they pay Network Rail to run them on their track, if they make a profit that's theirs to keep. So Freightliner is a British subsidiary company of American company Genesse Wyoming who ordered 30 of these locomotives from GE to be built in Erie Pennsylvania and shipped over here One was dropped on the dock and bent like a banana when a sling broke and was a write off. It was sent back for spares. They were built in 2009. We hardly own anything now Power plants steel works even our Royal Mail has just been sold off abroad what a country.
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Freightliner a Genesee & Wyoming Company. Interesting! I need know more bout that. GW owns over 120 different railroads here. Do we they own the RR there or just 😮tge loco or what?
Our railways were privatised in a very complicated way. Network Rail own all the track signalling and structures like tunnels / bridges. All the rolling stock and locomotives were put up for sale and bought by leasing companies who rent them out, and companies like Freightliner were formed before the sell off called shadow companies, these were bought and got contracts to carry freight, and hired in locomotives from the leasing companies, they pay Network Rail to run them on their track, if they make a profit that's theirs to keep. So Freightliner is a British subsidiary company of American company Genesse Wyoming who ordered 30 of these locomotives from GE to be built in Erie Pennsylvania and shipped over here One was dropped on the dock and bent like a banana when a sling broke and was a write off. It was sent back for spares. They were built in 2009. We hardly own anything now Power plants steel works even our Royal Mail has just been sold off abroad what a country.
Can you go Hopwood on train
Theres no station there but on some days the trains go there.
@@cedarcam I heard Castleton becoming
@@JoshHodginsTrains That's where they can get onto the main line.