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Daventry expands north

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...

McLoughlin thanks staff at Victoria

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...

New freight train

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...

A digital railway for freight

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...

Educate politicians about rail freight

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...

GBRf wins on Aggregate

The New Year gets off to a good start for GB Railfreight which has started running a new service for Aggregates Industries (AI) as...

High times for rail freight

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...

Rail freight – Solving the capacity challenge

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...

Expansion for Daventry Rail Freight

An international rail freight terminal – which featured on the front page of the second edition of RailStaff 17 years ago – has won...

Rail freight rises

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...

Spanish Freight for HS1

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...

Railfreight rescue for stricken fire ship

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...

Critical biomass

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...

Third edition for expanding Daventry

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...

What do they do? Rail Freight Group

Rail freight has been experiencing a marked renaissance over the past 15 years, growing in popularity as consistently as its steady decline in the...

County Mayo cure for freight

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...

Future beckons for rail freight

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...

Stobart turns to rail freight

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...