Direct Rail Services

Direct Rail Services (DRS) is a UK national rail freight operator. It provides rail transport and related services, including specialist freight such as spent nuclear fuel and decommissioning waste, domestic intermodal freight, rail network support for Network Rail, fleet maintenance and rail planning consultancy. Its fleet includes Class 88, 68, 66 and 57 locomotives and rolling stock.

Customers include nuclear industry clients, Network Rail, train operating companies and fast-moving consumer goods and general freight shippers such as Tesco. DRS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and is part of Nuclear Transport Solutions, formed in 2021, which also operates Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd.

DRS was established in 1995 as lead supplier of rail transport to the nuclear industry. It is registered in Warrington and its head office is in Carlisle, Cumbria. It operates across Great Britain from more than 20 locations, including maintenance depots in Carlisle, Crewe, Motherwell and Sellafield, and states that it employs more than 480 staff. The company is recruiting drivers, engineers, controllers and support staff.

Product: Rail freight transport and related services: specialist nuclear freight, intermodal, rail network support, fleet maintenance and rail consultancy.