WH Davis has outshopped the first 46 ‘megaboxes’ for their railway leasing customer Beacon Rail. The 75 cubic-meter capacity wagon is finished with GB Railfreight livery. The 75 cubic-metre capacity open wagons use recovered and...Read more
The only remaining freight wagon manufacturer in the UK, WH Davis, has secured what they describe as a major contract with Beacon Rail Leasing. The company will convert 46 former coal hopper wagons into brand...Read more
Specialist UK manufacturer WH Davis has supplied a rake of repurposed and reengineered bulk carrier wagons to support construction materials specialist Aggregate Industries and leasing agent VTG Rail UK. The rake has been commissioned to...Read more
The days of large-scale freight wagon rolling stock building are over in the UK. This is the belief of Les Bryant, the group business development director at wagon builder WH Davis. All large volume manufacturing...Read more
UK manufacturer WH Davis welcomed representatives from leasing company VTG and operators GB Railfreight to their manufacturing base in England and their production facilities at Langwith Junction, near Mansfield. The reason of their visit was...Read more
GB Railfreight, currently the third-largest rail freight operator in the UK, has signed a new multi-million pound contract for the lease of an additional 52 Ecofret2 Intermodal wagons. The second generation multimodal career rake is...Read more
VTG Rail UK has signed an agreement with WH Davis to build 84 of their new trademarked Ecofret2 triple container wagons. The East Midlands manufacturer was selected ahead of a stellar field of other European...Read more
Britain’s biggest rail freight operator, DB Cargo UK, is utilising the growing demand for rail movement of aggregates by converting more than 100 coal hoppers into new state-of-the-art aggregate hopper wagons. The conversion programme is...Read more
