Network Rail, the British infrastructure management agency, has launched a consultation on plans to reintroduce passenger services on the moribund freight-only railway between Southampton Central, Marchwood and Hythe, in Hampshire. Campaigners however will be slightly...Read more
Saturday in Britain passed off … quietly. Quietly, especially if you happened to be around London Euston or Birmingham New Street. Both of these major passenger terminals were completely closed. The latest strike on Britain’s...Read more
Network Rail has committed to renovating a freight route through the centre of Glasgow. The infrastructure agency is to invest in a programme of improvement works set to begin on a bridge that’s key to...Read more
The UK arm of global shipping carrier MSC has announced a successful shake down of its new Anglo-Scottish rail service. What is effectively a land cruise for containers, takes traffic between ports and terminals in...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road expects very much more of the same. The switch over of responsibilities from the outgoing Network Rail to the incoming Great British Railways should be seamless and not interrupt...Read more
Camden is in the market to join the Highline family. Freight operators in London may be at odds with the plan, but a well-organised lobby group would like to see disused tracks reborn as an...Read more
The biggest container port in the UK, and the single most busy intermodal rail freight terminal, will grind to a halt this month under a longterm strike by members of the Unite union. Around 1900...Read more
Welsh timber is back on Welsh railways, and this time its here permanently. Following a successful trial in April, Colas Rail has agreed a permanent contract to move raw timber logs from the coastal town...Read more
A project to connect major cities in the north of England with a dedicated high-speed railway, vastly increasing capacity for freight and passenger traffic, could be back on the agenda, but only if members of...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the autonomous government safety and performance watchdog, has assessed Network Rail Scotland as part of a nationwide review. The annual report card is not good reading for the...Read more
The UK government may have cancelled plans for a dedicated high-speed line across the Pennine Mountain range, but work continues to improve the existing network. The Trans Pennine Upgrade (TRU) project has been criticised as...Read more
Direct Rail Services, the carrier who grew out of specialising in transferring nuclear flasks, took the recent opportunity of a ministerial visit to show off something much cooler. Celebrating a new contract to carry refrigerated...Read more
The state of industrial dispute that currently grips the British rail network has claimed a high-profile political casualty. Surprisingly – shockingly for some – the socialist opposition Labour Party sacked their shadow transport secretary Sam...Read more
Members of the Unite union have voted overwhelming today, Thursday, in favour of strike action at the Port of Felixstowe. Fears have already been expressed over disruption to intermodal traffic at Britain’s biggest container shipping...Read more
A little more than a year after signing the contract, the Rail Operations Group project to bring tri-mode mainline freight traction to the UK is stepping forward on the production line. Manufacturers Stadler have finished...Read more
Logistics operator Maritime Transport has launched a new intermodal service in partnership with P&O Ferries, connecting TILBURY2 with the newly-refurbished Trafford Park Euroterminal in Manchester.Read more
The rail minister Wendy Morton, who is also a member of Parliament in the West Midlands, was hosted by her parliamentary colleague Jackie Doyle-Price, the MP for the Thurrock constituency, have inspected supermarket retailer Tesco’s...Read more
A signal passed at danger is always a serious matter, and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch is treating an incident earlier this month at Doncaster in just such terms. Two freight trains became rather more...Read more
Following this week’s unprecedented heatwave, Network Rail is gearing up its efforts to make the UK network more resilient by launching a special task force for hot weather. “We’ve got to pull out all the...Read more
This week’s heatwave has put pressure on UK infrastructure like never before. The unprecedented closure of the East Coast Main Line, in the face of temperatures more akin to Spain than Stevenage, was the headline...Read more
A fixture on the calendar that has sadly been missing for the last two years made it back in style last weekend. The much anticipated Direct Rail Services Open Day drew record crowds to its...Read more
