Fastline
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Fastline was created by six railwaymen who undertook a successful management buyout of Eastern Track Renewals from British Rail in 1996. In that year they bought Northern Track Renewals from British R
56301 at Leicester TMD
Fastline Class 56 56303 seen at Kingsheath operating an intermodal service in 2007.
Fastline Class 66 66434 seen at Chester operating a Chirk Kronospan to Carlisle logging train for Colas Rail, 4 months after Fastline ceased trading.
A track tamper in Jarvis PLC Fastline livery at Chester station.
British Rail Class 56
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The British Rail Class 56 is a type of diesel locomotive designed for heavy freight work. It is a Type 5 locomotive, with a Ruston-Paxman power unit developing 3,250 bhp, and has a Co-Co wheel arrange
Fastline
…trains. The company was acquired by Jarvis, who later resurrected the Fastline name to create a railway freight operator. It operated a fleet of Class 56 and Class 66 locomotives. The class 56s cost £700,000 each to refurbish. A fourth and a fifth Class 56 (56311 & 56312) were hired in from Hanson Traction…
A Class 56 at Doncaster Works in 2003
Builder's portrait of BR 56001 in the premises of the Electroputere works, Craiova, SR Romania (1976)
56115 on a railtour.