Iskra
Established Member
UK Railtours latest email mailing list update contained the following statement:
This could have a large effect on railtour operations in the UK, presumably ones to freight installations especially. With DRS and apparently ROG not interested in railtours either anymore, it does look like the options are dwindling for future railtours and this decision could have quite a big impact.
We've been asked several times about our plans for 2024, and we'd hoped to have our Q1 and Q2 trains live by now, so we thought we'd include an update in this week's newsletter.
You may have seen in the railway press in the past couple of weeks that DB Cargo, one of our operating partners, has announced a large number of redundancies across their driver pool. Unfortunately this has also led to DB Cargo declining any new charter work, and so we've had to go back to the drawing board with a lot of our plans.
This could have a large effect on railtour operations in the UK, presumably ones to freight installations especially. With DRS and apparently ROG not interested in railtours either anymore, it does look like the options are dwindling for future railtours and this decision could have quite a big impact.