Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight which could have switched to rail transport will stay on the roads as a result of the Scottish government’s 62.5 per cent cut in funding for Freight Facilities Grants
Browsing: Rail Freight
The government’s decision to push ahead with a high speed rail line to the Midlands and North West (HS2) got a welcome from the Rail Freight Group and a warning from the Freight Transport Association that it must not be allowed to distract from the needs
Rail freight operator Direct Rail Services has ordered a fleet of newly designed mixed traffic diesel locomotives for use in its intermodal and passenger train operations
The chief executives of four rail freight companies have called for the elimination of bottlenecks on the important Rotterdam-Genoa rail freight corridor
Stobart has re-started its rail freight service between Valencia, Spain and Barking
The European Commission has is to refer Germany to the European Court of Justice for failure to implement common rules on achieving inter-operability of European railways
A German company is planning to open a rail freight “motorway” to Russia from the new Calais Premier logistics park
Tesco has launched the first of two new rail services which it reckons will take 40,000 lorries a year off the road
Asda is expanding its use of rail to move containers from Southampton to the North East of England
DB Schenker is launching its first rail freight service to use High Speed 1, the fast rail link from London to the Channel Tunnel
