Euro Cargo Rail

Euro Cargo Rail is a French based operator of freight trains and subsidiary company of UK rail freight operator EWSfr icon http://www.eurocargorail.com/news_1_fr.html, the company operates rail freight services on a number of routes in northern France, particularly on routes to and from the French border mainly from Calais to Tourcoing and Dunkirk.

Operations

On 26 October, 2005 the French Minister for Transport awarded EWS International a Safety Certificate, allowing it to operate freight trains on the French rail network, making it the third rail freight operator in France. The company are responsible for marketing and trading of these rail freight services. The first Euro Cargo Rail freight train operated during winter 2005/6.

Fleet

Euro Cargo Rail has four Vossloh G1206, two Vossloh G2000's, three Class 185.5 and sixty Class 66 freight locomotives. Euro Cargo Rail has also ordered a further sixty updated class 66 locomotives (to be known as class 77) that during 2008 were being commissioned at Tilburg, Netherlands.

ee also

*Europorte 2

References

External links

* [http://www.eurocargorail.com/en/index.html Company website]
* [http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/france/france_ecr.html Company stock]
* [http://dave-higson.fotopic.net/p48696636.html Image of Eurocargorail 66215 on a freight at Culoz in France]