Editing Direct Rail Services (section)

{{short description|Rail freight company in Great Britain}}
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| logo             = Direct Rail Services.svg
| name             = Direct Rail Services Ltd.
| image            = Railway at Scotchman's Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 4038144.jpg
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| start_year       = February 1995<ref>{{cite web |url = https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03020822 |title = Direct Rail Services Limited: Company number 03020822 |publisher = gov.uk |access-date = 29 May 2022}}</ref>
| end_year         = present
| caption          = DRS Class 66 container train at Scotchman's Bridge in 2014
| regions          = Great Britain
| headquarters     = [[Carlisle]], England, UK<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.directrailservices.com/contact-drs/ |title = Contact Details |access-date = 26 July 2021 |publisher = Direct Rail Services}}</ref>
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| parent_company   = Nuclear Transport Services (part of the [[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority]])<ref name = nts />
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'''Direct Rail Services''' ('''DRS''') is a [[Rail freight in Great Britain|rail freight company]] in [[Great Britain]], and is one of the [[State-owned enterprises of the United Kingdom|publicly owned railway companies]] in the United Kingdom.

DRS was created as a wholly-owned subsidiary of [[British Nuclear Fuels Ltd]] (BNFL) during late 1994 with the primary purpose of taking over the rail-based handling of nuclear material from [[British Rail]]. As early as 1997, the company began diversification into other operations, initially bidding for contracts to haul freight traffic for other companies such as [[Tesco]] and [[Eddie Stobart Group]]. Furthermore, DRS has branched into passenger services, these have included [[charter]]s, such as the [[Northern Belle (train)|Northern Belle]], and contracts with operators such as [[National Express East Anglia]], [[Chiltern Railways]], and [[Arriva Rail North]]. Additional rolling stock, such as the [[British Rail Class 57|Class 57]] and [[British Rail Class 88|Class 88]] locomotives, have been acquired by DRS during the 2010s.

In 2005, DRS was transferred from BNFL to the newly created [[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority]] (NDA). During early 2021, further restructuring led to DRS, along with sibling subsidiaries Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL) and [[International Nuclear Services]] (INS), falling under a new NDA division, ''Nuclear Transport Solutions'' (NTS).