DB Cargo UK has launched a trial service with steel giant ArcelorMittal.
On September 29, the freight operator moved 1,300 tonnes of steel coil by 20 loaded BYA-type wagons from the Port of Boston to Wolverhampton.
DB Cargo is providing a full port...
Iarnród Éireann has started trial runs of longer freight trains. The trials will enable capacity of freight trains on principle routes in the Republic of Ireland to be increased by up to 50 per cent during the fourth quarter of...
An extension to Daventry International Rail Terminal (DIRFT) has been agreed by government and work will start in the next few weeks.
DIRFT III marks a massive expansion of the rail hub site with an extended railway line, 15 new...
A railway station once labelled Britain’s worst is back in business following a £44 million facelift.
Manchester Victoria now has a vast new roof made from the same material used at the Eden Project whilst the station itself retains most...
DB Schenker Rail UK and PD Ports have launched their first rail freight service from Teesport in Middlesbrough to Mossend and Grangemouth in Scotland.
Starting on 3 August service will offer a full train with 40 containers to and from...
Britain has been at the heart of international trade for centuries.
Today, our rail freight industry is a critical enabler of this continued success story. Having grown by 80 per cent in the decades since privatisation, it now provides the transport...
Maggie Smith of the Rail Freight Group (RFG) takes a look at the post-election ministerial team at the Department for Transport (DfT) and urges the new government to get right behind rail freight - an essential element of rail’s soaraway...
The New Year gets off to a good start for GB Railfreight which has started running a new service for Aggregates Industries (AI) as part of a five-year deal to transport sand and stone from AI quarries to various...
For too long rail freight has been treated as the poor relation of the railway, writes Andy Milne.
Freight drivers have long raged at the ignominy of being held in passing loops as sleek passenger trains speed by. Passengers are...
In the mid 1980s, France’s national postal carrier, La Poste, launched its high-speed mail rail service. It suddenly allowed the company to move letters and parcels around the country at 270 km/h, sorting as it went.
Next year that service...
An international rail freight terminal – which featured on the front page of the second edition of RailStaff 17 years ago – has won approval for a substantial expansion.
Daventry International Rail Freight terminal (Dirft) currently runs approximately 140 trains...
Rail freight is continuing to expand. Recent data published by the Office of Rail Regulation shows freight carried by rail rose by 5.8% in the year 2013-14 compared to the year before.
A report commissioned by the Rail Delivery Group...
More London-bound fresh food and car parts from Valencia in Spain are being carried on High Speed One following a deal between HS1 and DB Schenker Rail (UK).
The freight trains speeding up High Speed One to East London are...
The cargo of a fire-damaged ship has been saved by an intrepid rail freight company.
The captain of the Zim Rotterdam cargo container ship, sailing from Port Klang in Malaysia to Felixstowe, had to lay up off the coast unable...
Hard working designers at Lloyd’s Register Rail UK and W H Davis have developed a new biomass wagon, one of the largest of its kind.
Says Richard Gibney, Professional Head of Traction and Rolling Stock, Lloyd’s Register Rail UK, ‘This...
The company behind the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal plans to significantly expand the site.
Prologis has applied for permission to build DIRFT III which will expand over the nearby former radio mast site near Hilmorton creating over 9,000 jobs....
Rail freight has been experiencing a marked renaissance over the past 15 years, growing in popularity as consistently as its steady decline in the 1960s and 70s, Marc Johnson reports.
More and more businesses continue to shift from road to...
Monday 4th March was a big day for Iarnród Éireann and Port of Waterford when DFDS Logistics re-launched a container train reconnecting County Mayo with Rotterdam and the rest of Europe. Writes Tim Casterton
DFDS operates the sea route from...
When the rail industry was privatised rail freight, like the rest of the business, was scheduled for quiet decline.
BR had four main freight companies for sale - three were bought by Wisconsin Central and became EWS - subsequently acquired...
With the rapidly rising cost of fuel and today’s carbon, congestion and cost conscious society, road haulage is an increasingly controversial issue.
Not only do continuing rises in fuel charges play a significant part in inflation, but best use of...
Network Rail’s first preference is to transport goods by rail.
In a bid to minimise road movements Network Rail is to build a 300,000 square foot national road haulage distribution centre on the site of the former Peugeot plant at...
A hundred year-old railway tank wagon, originally used to carry shale oil products from oil works in West Lothian, was unveiled by Fiona Hyslop, Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs.
The vehicle will go on display at the...
A moving international rail freight motorway comes a step nearer this summer.
Europorte ran a trial lorry trailer service from Antwerp to Barking via the Channel Tunnel and High Speed One on May 21-22. The piggyback train consisted of a...
The last couple of years have seen a revival of freight services in Ireland with regular container services between Ballina and Waterford and Dublin ports and timber trains from Ballina / Westport to Waterford picking up pace.
Zinc ore trains...
