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Rail Freight Operator

Rail Freight Operator: Paths bought a year before the traffic. A freight railway sells train loads, and a train load is only cheap if it is full both ways…

Paths bought a year before the traffic. Buy the path first. Find the load second.

A freight railway sells train loads, and a train load is only cheap if it is full both ways. Paths are bought in the timetable a year ahead, which means committing to a slot before the customer has committed to you. One flow of aggregates or boxes can be a fifth of the business, and when a quarry closes or a shipper moves to road the wagons stand in a siding earning nothing while the lease carries on.

Setup costs
£6,000,000 to £30,000,000
Competition
Low
Category
Transport & Logistics

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