Services
The company operates several different types of freight traffic.
- 3 daily Intermodal services from Felixstowe to Hams Hall
- Intermodal traffic from Felixstowe to Selby
- Intermodal traffic from Felixstowe to Doncaster
- Gypsum traffic in northern and southern England with a new service starting to Fiddlers Ferry Power Station
- Infrastructure maintenance trains in East Anglia and South-East England as well as a Loaded Rail service from Scunthorpe to Wellingborough
- Withdrawn and stored stock movements
- New stock delivery movements for Angel Trains and Bombardier Transportation
- Maintenance and operation of snowploughs in East Anglia and South East England
- Operation of engineering trains for Transport for London on nine of the twelve London Underground lines
- First GBRf entered the coal market in 2007 and operates coal trains between Tyne Dock and Redcar to Drax Power Station, Immingham to Eggborough, Thoresby and Welbeck to Cottam and West Burton as well as ones between Widdrington and Lynemouth and from Butterwell to Daw Mill
- "Petrochem Carless" tank trains from Parkeston to North Walsham as well as the "Mud Oil" train between Parkeston and Aberdeen
- Aluminium products between Lynemouth and Fort William for Rio Tinto Alcan (previously operated by DB Schenker). In 2011 preserved Deltic 55022 Royal Scots Grey was chartered for working bauxite traffic between Blyth and Lynemouth.
- Operation of deicing trains over the former Southern Region using Network Rail deicing vehicles and GB Railfreight's fleet of Class 73s
- Operation of Whitemoor Yard for Network Rail
- Operation of Petroleum service from Immingham to Cardiff's Queen Alexandra Dock
- Operation of Cardiff Tidal/Tremorfa Works from February 2011
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