First GBRf signs two new contracts

First GBRf has signed two new contracts with Network Rail, totalling six years of new business and continuing the freight haulier's 10-year record of never losing a client.
Network Rail has decided to renew its contract with First GBRf to operate and manage its Whitemoor infrastructure terminal, on Hundred Road in March, Cambridgeshire for a further two years.  This award was based on First GBRf consistently notching up 100 per cent right time and correctly consisted departures at the depot over the last five years; Whitemoor has the best depot performance figures in the country.

Under the terms of the new contract First GBRf will continue to assume responsibility for running the depot, which it has been in charge of doing since winning the original contract in 2003. Duties will include loading and unloading trains and managing the ballast stockpiles.

First GBRf has also secured a new four-year haulage deal with Network Rail to operate infrastructure maintenance trains from Hoo junction in Kent, Eastleigh in Hampshire and Whitemoor. The freight haulier will provide locomotives, drivers and staff to transport track renewal material for the rail infrastructure owner. 

First GBRf's Managing Director John Smith said: When First GBRf was first established in 1999 Network Rail were our very first customer, so it's great, 10 years on, to be renewing contracts and expanding the work we do with them. The new contracts not only continue our unblemished record of retaining every client we have ever done business with, but also help to secure First GBRf’s future for the long term and we look forward to working with them over the next few years.
 

Source: Transportweekly