Communiqués de Rail4chem :
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1. Rail4chem offers haulage services to the United Kingdom :
Rail4chem Eisenbahnverkehrsgesellschaft now offers its customers haulage services for fast block trains from Germany and Central Europe direct via France and through the Channel Tunnel to the UK. The new services provided by the company and partners are suitable particularly for main multimodal transport routes. After detailed preliminary negotiations with several partner companies in France and the UK, rail4chem will be able to run attractively priced, extremely fast regular train services to and from the UK from the beginning of 2005. Haulage will be provided by modern multi-system electric locomotives registered for service in both Germany and France, thus avoiding the need to change engines at the old national borders as in the past. rail4chem will, for example, offer a through time of only 26 hours between Nuremberg and Dollands Moor.
2 . Worms-Rotterdam service now without border stops
Essen/Rotterdam, May 12th 2004 Worms-Rotterdam service now without border stops The Worms-Rotterdam container train relation provided by rail4chem in cooperation with the Dutch ShortLines now crosses the German-Dutch border without stopping. rail4chem and ShortLines intensified their cooperation for this project and now deploy two General Motors class 66 diesel locomotives equipped with German and Dutch train control and communications systems for the service. The partners have also assumed responsibility for most of the localized operations in Worms and Rotterdam. The train drivers employed on the route possess driving licences and route authorizations for both countries so that it is generally not necessary to change personnel at the border. With this optimization, customers benefit from considerably improved container provision times in Worms in the mornings. The acceptance time in the evenings has also been extended. For the pairs of trains operating since November 2003, rail4chem used to deploy series 145/185 electric locomotives on the German part of the route from Worms goods station to Venlo, with ShortLines deploying a class 66 unit for the haulage services between Venlo and Rotterdam. The train used to be taken to the port in Worms by a local rail freight company.
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1. Rail4chem offers haulage services to the United Kingdom :
Rail4chem Eisenbahnverkehrsgesellschaft now offers its customers haulage services for fast block trains from Germany and Central Europe direct via France and through the Channel Tunnel to the UK. The new services provided by the company and partners are suitable particularly for main multimodal transport routes. After detailed preliminary negotiations with several partner companies in France and the UK, rail4chem will be able to run attractively priced, extremely fast regular train services to and from the UK from the beginning of 2005. Haulage will be provided by modern multi-system electric locomotives registered for service in both Germany and France, thus avoiding the need to change engines at the old national borders as in the past. rail4chem will, for example, offer a through time of only 26 hours between Nuremberg and Dollands Moor.
2 . Worms-Rotterdam service now without border stops
Essen/Rotterdam, May 12th 2004 Worms-Rotterdam service now without border stops The Worms-Rotterdam container train relation provided by rail4chem in cooperation with the Dutch ShortLines now crosses the German-Dutch border without stopping. rail4chem and ShortLines intensified their cooperation for this project and now deploy two General Motors class 66 diesel locomotives equipped with German and Dutch train control and communications systems for the service. The partners have also assumed responsibility for most of the localized operations in Worms and Rotterdam. The train drivers employed on the route possess driving licences and route authorizations for both countries so that it is generally not necessary to change personnel at the border. With this optimization, customers benefit from considerably improved container provision times in Worms in the mornings. The acceptance time in the evenings has also been extended. For the pairs of trains operating since November 2003, rail4chem used to deploy series 145/185 electric locomotives on the German part of the route from Worms goods station to Venlo, with ShortLines deploying a class 66 unit for the haulage services between Venlo and Rotterdam. The train used to be taken to the port in Worms by a local rail freight company.
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