Amazon Using Trains?

[LNW-GW Joint]

There's a piece today in the Guardian which says that Amazon is to start deliveries by train.
The route quoted is Scotland to the Midlands via the "fully electric WCML".
Does anyone know the details behind this?
Is it dedicated Amazon container trains, like the ones for Tesco, or is it partial loads on existing scheduled routes?
As it's part of their net-zero push, presumably they will find an operator who actually uses electric traction for its container trains.
There must be huge potential for rail to have a stake in the Amazon business - it could dwarf the recent loss of the Royal Mail-operated trains.
Amazon is also to operate a fleet of 150 electric trucks.

Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions

Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts

www.theguardian.com

The move comes as Amazon begins its first large-scale deliveries by train. Containers of products from its warehouses will be loaded on to cargo trains on the fully electric west coast mainline between Scotland and the Midlands for pick-up from stations close to local Amazon delivery and fulfilment centres or ferry ports.
The scheme will enable 20m products a year to be transported by train. Amazon previously only transported a small number of packages via train using carts loaded on to passenger trains.

 

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There's a piece today in the Guardian which says that Amazon is to start deliveries by train.
The route quoted is Scotland to the Midlands via the "fully electric WCML".
Does anyone know the details behind this?
Is it dedicated Amazon container trains, like the ones for Tesco, or is it partial loads on existing scheduled routes?
As it's part of their net-zero push, presumably they will find an operator who actually uses electric traction for its container trains.
There must be huge potential for rail to have a stake in the Amazon business - it could dwarf the recent loss of the Royal Mail-operated trains.
Amazon is also to operate a fleet of 150 electric trucks.

Amazon makes ‘largest ever’ UK order of electric trucks to cut carbon emissions

Online retailer will also begin its first large-scale deliveries by train and trial heavy post-style carts

www.theguardian.com

I would hazard a guess on them using Varamis 321 units which I believe run from Glasgow to the Midlands.

 

[matt]

See here https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/amazon-to-use-rail.280108/