Clayton Equipment is to supply two innovative Hybrid+™ Diesel CBD80 locomotives to Sellafield Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. These...
The Scottish Government has allocated a Freight Facilities Grant worth £1.49 million to Tarmac. It will be used to expand rail operations at Tarmac’s...
Freightliner has released plans to build a state-of-the-art locomotive and wagon maintenance and fuelling facility at its Ranelagh Road freight yard in Ipswich.
Around 20...
Rail freight sector champion Lord Tony Berkeley has now retired from his role as chairman of the Rail Freight Group (RFG), the industry representative...
Philippa Edmunds, freight on rail manager, Campaign for Better Transport, makes a compelling argument to support a modal shift of freight from road to...
The CEO of DB Cargo UK, Hans-Georg Werner, has been made chair of the Rail Delivery Group's (RDG) freight board.
Werner said the rail freight sector has...
Transport secretary Chris Grayling also indicated that the government would be looking to reopen more of the regional rail routes that were mothballed in...
The effectiveness of control periods (CP) is to be assessed in a new inquiry by the transport select committee.
Chair Lilian Greenwood said the inquiry...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...