Speedlink Volume 3 International Ferry StockSpeedlink Volume 3 International Ferry Stock 25. 00 Speedlink was launched in 1977 as an attempt to arrest the decline in British Rails wagonload freight business. One of the things that distinguished Speedlink workings from most of the freight services that had preceded them was that all the wagons used were air braked. At its peak in the mid 1980s, it carried over 8 million tonnes annually. Despite this, Speedlink was never profitable, and in the