Fastline Freight entered into the rail freight market in June 2006 and launched a bulk haulage service in May 2008 with the commencement its major contract hauling coal for E.ON UK plc (E.ON).


Bulk Haulage
The commencement of a five year contract to haul coal for E.ON from Immingham, Liverpool and Avonmouth to Ratcliffe-on-Soar and Ironbridge power stations marked a major milestone in the development of the Freight business as it entered the bulk haulage sector. The business is now fully operational on the contract and has in service five new class 66 locomotives and more than one hundred coal hopper wagons.