Speedlink post 92?

[Foden]

Just watching a class 37 related DVD and I’ve noticed that a couple of workings mentioned were Speedlink, but after 1992. I thought Speedlink ended entirely in 1991 and trains that could not be formed as block traffic lost?

 

Think the dates were both 1993 so would be before the later ‘Enterprise’ workings post privatisation.

[Mark Saunders]

The Civil Engineers had the Civil-Link services for their own movements which also included PO wagons to works for repair or maintenance. 

 

Tigerfreightways  started to run  services for former Speedlink customers, notably out of the West Country for ECC and Fitzgerald Lighting. Calcified seaweed was one commodity moved on this service!

 

This service ended when the parent company went into liquidation and the Tiger wagon hire fleet sold off. The POA/PNA wagons were eventually sold to BR where they became ZKA limpets and Doorands, the remaking 35 that were unconverted became MKA wagons for Loadhaul.

[Foden]

In this instance the dates are actually 1994, and include a Mossend - Warrington, and another to Healey Mills in the same year.