Colas Rail is a railway infrastructure and rail freight company primarily active in the United Kingdom.
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14 Facts About Colas Rail
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Colas Rail was originally created as Seco Rail, named after its then-parent company SECO.
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Seco Colas Rail participated in various major projects, such as in the construction of phase one of High Speed 1.
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Seco Colas Rail acquired its first locomotives and regular freight customer, Kronospan, during the following year.
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Colas Rail was originally established as Seco Rail, drawing its name from the UK subsidiary of the French railway engineering company SECO.
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Also during 2007, Colas purchased three Class 47 diesel locomotives from the freight operator England Wales Scotland ; all three were overhauled at Eastleigh Works ahead of commencing operations in September 2007 on railhead treatment trains in South West England on behalf of the national rail infrastructure owner Network Rail.
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In January 2008, Colas Group acquired the Plant division of Carillion Rail, comprising 12 tampers, three regulators, one locomotive, one 125T Kirow Crane, 16 switch-handling units, and the freehold of the Mill Lane Plant Depot in Rugby, making the company the owner of the largest fleet of modern on-track plant in the UK.
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In late 2009, Colas Rail leased four Class 66 diesel locomotives that had last been used by the collapsed operator Advenza Freight.
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In November 2013, Colas placed an order for ten Class 70 diesel locomotives with the American railway manufacturer GE Transportation.
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In December 2017, Colas Rail sold its three Class 47 locomotives to GB Railfreight, as they had been deemed to be no longer useful to its core operations.
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Colas Rail has been involved in delivering enhancements to the West Midlands Metro.
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Colas Rail was one of the companies involved in delivering the Contournement Nimes – Montpellier French high speed line.
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In 2018, Colas Rail publicly called for Network Rail to provide greater certainty on future rail freight paths, stating that investment in new services, such as rail-based parcel traffic, was being jeopardised by a lack of safeguards on capacity.
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Colas Rail owns and operates a mixed fleet of on-track plant for maintenance operations.
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