Construction begins on latest UK terminal
Ground has been broken at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton Gateway, the latest addition to the growing family of modern intermodal facilities in the UK. The site is adjacent to the important M1 motorway and midway...Read more
Rail Operations Group bought out by London-based investment house
Rail Operations Group has been sold to the London-based investment house STAR Capital. The deal will see STAR take a majority stake in the parent company Rail Operations (UK), which operates the rolling stock movement...Read more
Folded drones may help Network Rail investigate its railway caves
Mapping the unpredictable undulations of underground voids and searching out subterranean subsidence is a hidden but vital part of railway maintenance. Now engineers are auditioning a new player in the cast of solutions. Prometheus –...Read more
Engineering first for freight tunnel
There’s innovation on the East Coast Main Line, as UK engineers begin a complex civil engineering project to install a prefabricated tunnel under the tracks. A massive concrete and steel structure is being hydraulically jacked...Read more
Upgrades on historic Flying Scotsman route
Rail freight and passenger services will be curtailed for much of January, as a vast upgrade project continues on the East Coast Main Line. The route, made famous by the Flying Scotsman express, connects London,...Read more
Freight advantages in Oxford redevelopment proposals
An ambitious plan has been put forward to redevelop the station in the centre of Oxford. The city, home to the world famous university as well as significant industrial interests, including the BMW Mini factory,...Read more
Winter is snow joke for Network Rail
Britain is often mocked for its reaction to slight snow falls, but rail freight ploughs on through in some of the hardiest of winter conditions. The headlines last week, of the Merseyside metro network brought...Read more
Freight figures big in UK Union Connectivity Review
Better connections between the four nations of the UK have been the subject of the UK Union Connectivity Review – an examination of links over the borders of the United Kingdom. Commissioned at the height...Read more
Curzon Street HS2 showpiece for Birmingham terminal
Birmingham’s historic Curzon Street Station will be integrated into the city’s new HS2 terminus. A deal has been struck to save the world’s oldest surviving monumental railway architecture. The building will be preserved and incorporated...Read more
Bridge project and call for passenger services on Scottish freight route
Network Rail, the UK infrastructure management agency, has begun a much anticipated refurbishment on a busy freight route through Edinburgh. At the same time, there are renewed calls for passenger services on the line. Upgrading...Read more
’Twas the season of … engineering works
In the UK, the two weeks around Christmas and New Year is the quietest time on the network … unless you are an infrastructure engineer. Network Rail and supply partners have been as busy as...Read more
Concerns over South Wales’ freight future
A high-level report has cast a shadow over rail freight development in South Wales, just as the railway in the region is undergoing much-needed modernisation. Representatives of the industry say that if adopted, the report...Read more
UK 2021 – Another hard day’s night or a ticket to ride?
If there is one recurring theme in Britain’s rail freight crystal ball for the next 365 days, it is that change is on the way. New plans for old traction, old plans for new tracks....Read more
The best of 2020 – the year Britain kept calm and carried on
This is the good review of the year, with a strict rule to see beyond the unhealthy health headlines. The UK industry has been telling RailFreight.com what really went well in the past twelve months....Read more
HS2: progress in 2020 – and going underground for 2021
The company behind Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, building the high speed rail project in England, has celebrated the first year of construction. HS2 Limited has graphically outlined of the scale of the works now underway....Read moreBrexit: only hours away but many miles to go
Where does rail freight stand in the new UK-European relationship? No matter which side of the Channel, Brexit Transition is upon us. In Southampton and Seville, Cardiff and Cherbourg, Glasgow and Gelsenkirchen – the result...Read more