When did DB Cargo get the Boston steel train?

[TravisM]

I’m doing some research on the Wolverhampton Steel Terminal/Bescot to Boston steel train and I’m struggling to find out when Colas lost the contract and DB Cargo picked it up.

 

 I’d like to model it from the crossover period until 2019 when Stagecoach lost the East Midlands Trains franchise.  I’m modelling this period as DBC are using their BYA wagons which are available from Bachmann though currently unavailable, though can found on a certain auction site.

 

When Colas ran the train, it used French registered IHA wagons which aren’t available either rtr or as a kit, so it was a no brainier to go for the start of DBC picking up the contract.

[beast66606]

September 2017