Network Rail details new fleet

A full breakdown of NR’s deal with GBRf, Wascosa and Greenbrier-Astra Rail to provide almost 600 new infrastructure wagons, including new FEA and MLA derivatives.

Gareth Bayer

NETWORK Rail has revealed more details of the 570 new vehicles that will be built by Greenbrier-Astra Rail, leased from the Swiss company Wascosa, and maintained by GB Railfreight under a 10-year agreement (see Headline news last issue) Just under half of the order will be made up of 260 90-tonne GLW 42.9m3 ‘Falcon’-style low-side box wagons, 10 of which are intended to be maintenance spares. These are likely to be TOPS-coded MLA-W (W for Wascosa) and an updated version of the 140 MLAs already in use with NR. They will have Y25 bogies like their predecessors, albeit with updated braking components, and also thicker steel plate for the bodysides. These will be built in Romania, with the first 30 expected to arrive in December 2021 and the last batch delivered…

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Rail Express (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2021

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