It is a unique story; A retailer/wholesaler founding its own rail freight operator, setting up its own unaccompanied combined transport (UCT, ‘unbegleiteten kombinierten Verkehr’) network and investing in its own rolling stock. This is exactly what Coop is doing with its rail freight subsidiary railCare. The next chapter in this story is the arrival of new Vectron locomotives, and now the first one has been released by Siemens.
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