Date: 25/07/2023

A negative reaction to Britains energy cost crisis has short-circuited the environmental ambitions of another rail freight carrier. This time, its DB Cargo UK that has has been forced to sideline an electric traction fleet on the grounds of cost. The fiasco of rocketing electricity prices has forced the Doncaster headquartered operator to pull the plug on its class 90 locomotive fleet. The twenty-four locomotives were reengineered from their original deployment on passenger express services.

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A northbound Pendolino passes a pair of DBC Class 90s on a Mossend to Daventry intermodal service at the site of Brock station on 04 March 2019.
Location: Brock
Company: Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
04/03/2019 John McIntyre

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