Fastline on Cumbrian WCML?

[cjs11]

Hello

Can anyone help me with any knowledge of Fastline wagons being on northern WCML workings?
I know of the Doncaster-Grain working; and the Ratcliffe coal workings. And I know that 66434 in it's Fastline livery was with DRS so appeared on WCML intermodals... but did the wagons too? Were there Fastline FEAs in WCML intermodals or freightliners?

MTIA
CJS

 

[fgwrich]

Hello

Can anyone help me with any knowledge of Fastline wagons being on northern WCML workings?
I know of the Doncaster-Grain working; and the Ratcliffe coal workings. And I know that 66434 in it's Fastline livery was with DRS so appeared on WCML intermodals... but did the wagons too? Were there Fastline FEAs in WCML intermodals or freightliners?

MTIA
CJS

In short, back to DRS and over to GBRf.

Although 66434 carried Fastline livery, it was actually on long term hire from DRS to Fastline, similar to the long term hire of DBS 66s to DRS we currently have at the moment (the Blue 66/0s). Since the demise of Fastline, DRS then took on the lease of the 4 Fastline 66s to bolster it's own, as well as taking 434 back in house.

Wagon wise, all of the FEA wagons and majority (and since ultimately all) of the IIA Coal Hoppers were taken on by GBRf, as they were virtually the same as those operated by the company, although a rake or two did go on hire to DRS for a brief period shifting aggregates in Cumbria. Those operated by GBRf were then either converted to Biomass hoppers or cut down to form HYA wagons - as although they were useful for shifting bulk coal loads, they were not as good for shifting aggregates.