Freightliner Class 66 Storage

[DBS92042]

Does anyone know the reason for a number of Freightliner's class 66s going into storage recently?
A few examples currently stored include:
66419, 66502, 66508, 66510, 66512, 66518, 66528, 66536, 66540, 66562, 66593

 

[Domh245]

Lack of traffic as a result of (almost) everything shutting down? At a guess

 

[Freightmaster]

Does anyone know the reason for a number of Freightliner's class 66s going into storage recently?

Do you really not know the answer to that question??

The country is facing the biggest economic downturn for 100 years or more,
so railfreight will take a absolute battering over the coming weeks as factories/
construction projects are forced to either shut down altogether or vastly reduce
their throughput.

In addition, Network Rail are postponing a lot of 'non safety critical' engineering work,
so far fewer ballast/spoil/rail trains will be needed for the forseeable future.

This sudden, unforeseeable contraction means that overheads have to be slashed,
which means locomotives going into store/off lease and traincrew being laid off.



MARK

 

[DBS92042]

Do you really not know the answer to that question??

The country is facing the biggest economic downturn for 100 years or more,
so railfreight will take a absolute battering over the coming weeks as factories/
construction projects are forced to either shut down altogether or vastly reduce
their throughput.

In addition, Network Rail are postponing a lot of 'non safety critical' engineering work,
so far fewer ballast/spoil/rail trains will be needed for the forseeable future.

This sudden, unforeseeable contraction means that overheads have to be slashed,
which means locomotives going into store/off lease and traincrew being laid off.



MARK

I did think that was the most likely reason but was just checking in case there was another reason unknown to me.
Is there a particular reason for Freightliner officially marking locos as in storage but the likes of DB/GBRF aren't (as of yet at least)?

 

[43096]

I did think that was the most likely reason but was just checking in case there was another reason unknown to me.
Is there a particular reason for Freightliner officially marking locos as in storage but the likes of DB/GBRF aren't (as of yet at least)?

DB, GBRf and Colas have all stopped locos over the last week.