Freightliner also operate stone trains to Tower, but this service varies in schedule, again hauled by a Class 66.
Freightliner | Freightliner Trucks | Freightliner Group | Freightliner (rail) | 47376 in original Freightliner livery. This locomotive was used to launch the company in 1995, being named ''Freightliner 1995''. It is now preserved on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway |
; (empty): from Southampton Maritime, England to a "dry port" at Coatbridge, Scotland (by rail, behind Freightliner 66594 NYK Spirit of Kyoto)
Daimler Trucks uses BlueTEC on all its Freightliner and Western Star Trucks destined for highway use, as these vehicles are only available with diesel engines.
1995 – Oshkosh Custom Chassis in Gaffney, South Carolina became Freightliner Custom Chassis, producing the underpinnings for walk-in vans used by companies such as UPS to deliver parcels and Cintas for uniform laundry services; diesel recreational vehicles; conventional school buses; and shuttle buses.
In 2002 a consortium of GNER and Freightliner attempted to acquire the company, valuing it at around £1 per share, or £8.75 million; GNER sought the passenger trains operations, whilst Freightliner sought the GB Railfreight subsidiary.
On May 24, 2009, Starks was arrested by police for running into a police officer with a Freightliner truck on Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami.
Thomson went on to serve on the British Railways Board, Scottish Committee, from 1989–94; as a consultant to British Railways Railfreight Distribution from 1994–96; and consultant to the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS) from 1997–98; and to Freightliner, Scotland, in 1999, being also a Director, from 2001-02.
The line is heavily used for freight services also, with several Freightliner container trains a day from the nearby Coatbridge terminal to destinations in the south of England such as Felixstowe and Southampton.