Order for 50 new GBRf wagons goes to Greenbrier
An Eastern European wagon builder has secured an order for 50 intermodal wagons for GB Railfreight. They will be built in Romania, and owned and leased by Porterbrook.
Greenbrier’s plant at Arad has recently been picking up large numbers of orders worldwide. This latest one builds on a contract for 100 new intermodal vehicles for GBRf signed last year.
They will be delivered in batches of ten per month from August until summer 2023, with Porterbrook’s research suggesting that intermodal rail freight could grow by more than 10% before 2034 and construction sector traffic by up to 35%.
Freightliner has also used Greenbrier to supply 230 new FFA-G flat wagons from the consortium of Wabtec Axiom Rail and Greenbrier Europe, built at its large factory at Świdnica in southwest Poland.
Freightliner has a large subsidiary in the country and has exported a number of its UK Class 66 locomotives there. It likes the FFA-G design because it is more than two tonnes lighter than its nearest competitor, and with a low platform has better route availability for 40ft containers.
Greenbrier, meanwhile, has awarded Axiom Rail Freight an £8.2 million contract to supply its TF25 bogies, a 25-year old design that is now fitted to around 4,000 wagons in the UK.