SATURDAY SUPERSTORE SERVICE:
Saturday, October 1 was a very quiet day in terms of rail movements, due to strike action by members of both the RMT and ASLEF unions. Direct Rail Services Class 88 No. 88009 Diana is pictured with a Daventry-Mossend Euroterminal Tesco train, running 18 minutes early at Shap Beck. The well-established partnership between DRS and the supermarket giant won the ‘Driving Rail Freight Growth’ category at this year’s Rail Freight Group Awards for expanding into refrigerated distribution, which the judges described as a “step change for rail”.