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There are five main rail freight operators in the
U.K.:
 Advenza Freight
 DB
Schenker
 Direct
Rail Services
 Freightliner
 First
GB Rail Freight
Advenza Freight
 Based
out of Gloucester, Advenza Freight is the rail freight arm of the
Cotswold Rail Group
Photo By: John Moore (Click to enlarge)
DB Schenker
 DB
Schenker is a logistics company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche
Bahn AG, the German railway company.
On the 1 st January 2009 the logistics operations of DB-Schenker,
Railion, EWS, and Transfesa were combined under the brand DB Schenker.
Photo by John Moore (click to enlarge)
Direct Rail Services
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a freight operating company created by
British Nuclear Fuels Limited. Ownership of DRS was transferred from
BNFL to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority when the NDA was created
on 1 April 2005
DRS now transports all nuclear flasks in the UK.
Photo by: Ingy The Wingy (Click to enlarge)
Freightliner
Freightliner Group Limited are a rail freight and logistics company,
founded in 1995 and now operating in the United Kingdom and Poland. It
is the second largest rail freight operator in the UK, after DB
Schenker.
Photo by: John Moore (Click to enlarge)
First GB Rail Freight
FirstGBRf is a British freight train operating company. Formerly called GB
Railfreight, it became part of FirstGroup when they acquired its parent company,
GB Railways.
It is currently the largest British-owned freight operator on the British
network. It has several bases including Peterborough and March: a great deal of
the First GBRf business is centred on East Anglia and the southern metals.
Photo by John Moore
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