‘It is a
damning indictment of the economic situation in the UK. There has been
widespread discontent at the UK government’s economic management, particularly
in the energy sector, which has been subject to rampant inflation and huge
price rises, particularly in the electricity generation market. This has led to
the environmentally counter-productive measure of switching off electric
locomotives from freight operations, and firing up diesels as replacement
traction’.
the fact of life, electricity in the UK is so way overpriced that the company has put its two-dozen class 90 locomotives on permanent discharge, offering them for sale or scrap, the full article is here, if you read the article it mentions that in late 2021 Freightliner faced a similar crisis, when it also took down its electric fleet.
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