Date: 12/12/2017

Direct Rail Services has developed a business plan for the next 20 years, but admits that the use of heritage vehicles (20s, 37s, 57s) is no longer economically, technically or environmentally viable for the entirety of the current strategy period.

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DRS admits use of heritage vehicles is no longer economically, technically or environmentally viable for the entirety of the current strategy period.

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The DRS depot at Carlisle on 18 April 2007, looking north from Etterby Road bridge.
Location: Carlisle Kingmoor TMD
Company: Caledonian Railway
18/04/2007 John Furnevel

DRS class 57s 57004+57009 take 7Z57 two snow ploughs out of Brodie Works Kilmarnock en route to Carlisle and ultimately Doncaster
Location: Kilmarnock
Company: Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
02/02/2012 Ken Browne

One quarter of the DRS Class 20 fleet passes Hest Bank level crossing on a Sellafield to Crewe working on 17 August, comprising a single wagon. 20312 (VF 1959) and 20302 (RSH 1961) are from the same era as the doomed Hest Bank box (1958) but hopefully the locos still have further useful life ahead of them.
Location: Hest Bank
Company: Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
17/08/2013 Mark Bartlett