Germany’s DB Schenker is launching Britain’s first regular rail cargo service using a European-sized, high-speed track from London to the Channel tunnel, which is expected to boost rail’s share of the freight market between the U.K. and the continent.
The weekly service between London and Wroclaw in Poland, starting Nov. 8, will travel over a track built for trains travelling through the sub-sea channel between the U.K. and France for services between London, Brussels and Paris.
The company, which has a 90-percent share of the U.K. rail freight market, expects to add several additional High Speed 1 services in 2012.
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