Fastline

Fastline was a railway freight operator. It was part of Jarvis plc. It ceased trading when Jarvis plc entered administration and subsequently ceased trading in late March 2010^[1]. The company is in administration with N.G. Edwards, N.B. Kahn, P.S. Bowers and I. Brown of Deloitte LLP.

They operated a fleet of Class 56 and Class 66 locomotives. The class 56s cost £700,000 each to refurbish. Their base was at Doncaster, Yorkshire. A fourth and a fifth Class 56 (56311 & 56312) were hired in from Hanson Traction Ltd. The company's main operation at first was 4O90, a container train to Thamesport on the Isle of Grain, which operated in the afternoon/evening, and returned in the early hours of the next morning, usually utilising Class 56 locomotives. They also ran several coal flows including from Hatfield to Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, using the Class 66s and a new build of coal hoppers. Since the end of Fastline's container traffic flows from Doncaster to the Isle of Grain, the class 56s were intended to be used on Fastline's coal flows.

Coal flows run by Fastline included:
Coal from Daw Mill to Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
Coal from Hatfield Colliery to Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station
Coal from Daw Mill to Cottam Power Station
Coal from Immingham to Ironbridge Power Station

Fleet details

Each machine (except number 66434) is currently for sale by administrators

References

1. ^ http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/articles/2010/04/jarvis-administrators-shed-1100-jobs.htm