DB Jumbo Trial

DB Cargo UK is trialling the use of ‘combi-consists’ to increase capacity, improve customer service and improve its efficiency. The rail operator ran a ‘jumbo’ train from Belmont Yard in Doncaster to Barking, East London, carrying a mix of wagons for two altogether diff erent types of customer. The trial train consisted of two sets of empty wagons with an isolated DIT (dead-in-train) locomotive in the middle. DB now plans to trial the ‘jumbo’ on a greater portion of the UKEast Coast Mainline & Midland Mainline.