The UK rail industry has joined together to facilitate sending more than a million items of aid to Ukraine in response to the humanitarian crisis in the region. UK Rail for Ukraine, a cross-industry initiative...Read more
A brand new service will help Scottish producers and manufacturers reach worldwide markets. Saturday saw the first departure of a new intermodal service operated by Freightliner. The train conveys containers from the company’s Coatbridge terminal...Read more
Rail Forum, a collaboration between the industry and the UK government, has announced a challenge competition to encourage SME businesses (small and medium-sized enterprises) to create freight terminals of the future. Lead industry partner will...Read more
Freight has assumed a new and much higher priority in a bold new vision for the line currently under construction to connect the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge. Network Rail has laid out an...Read more
Putting their feelings on the rails, operator GB Railfreight has named one of its workhorse class 66 diesels “Слава Україні” with the English sub-scripted nameplate “Glory to Ukraine”. The locomotive has been liveried in a...Read more
Almost fifty weekly freight trains will continue to run on a section of the railway closing to passenger services during a seven-week engineering programme. The Severn Estuary line between Gloucester and the Welsh border town...Read more
Freight and passenger traffic came to a standstill in the Channel Tunnel and at the busiest cross-channel port of Dover on Monday. A stopped train under the waves, and a lack of ferry services on...Read more
Maritime, the integrated rail and road logistics operator, has signed a deal that will significantly expand its intermodal handling capabilities at the port of Liverpool. The project will more than double the footprint of its...Read more
An animal feed factory was totally destroyed in a major blaze at the end of last week. Fire fighting services in the region were at full stretch to contain the blaze, which required the closure...Read more
A dispute over track access rights has put the brakes on both passenger and freight development on a line connecting North Wales and Merseyside. Local campaigners and politicians say it is a blight on economic...Read more
1 April 2022 marks the day that the Scottish Government has taken full public ownership of the network in the north of the UK. A new public agency will be responsible for all passenger operations...Read more
Malcolm Group, the Scottish company best known for its logistics operations, is celebrating its centenary in 2022 with a specially liveried locomotive. The electric class 90, owned by DB Cargo UK handling rail operations for...Read more
It may not have quite the profile of HS2, but a short line project in Fife is fast-tracking a community back onto the national network. Rail freight is playing a pivotal role and will have...Read more
A Network Rail report casts new light on the capacity of major passenger stations to handle light logistics. A broader return to handling less than wagon load and parcels traffic has been on the agenda...Read more
The UK interim budget, known as the Spring Statement, had little cause for cheer within its pages. The star of the chancellor Rishi Sunak, in ascendency during the pandemic, has been occulted by the body...Read more
GB Railfreight and rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook have announced a deal to deliver fifty new box wagons for the UK operator. Production duties will be handled by the multinational manufacturer Greenbrier. It is the...Read more
Railway industry leaders are waiting expectantly for the financial policy announcements in the UK. Against a backdrop of inflation heading into territory not visited since the 1970s and mounting multiple pressures on the economy, there...Read more
In the grand scheme of things, it was a minor derailment, but, as is often the case, it was a major headache for the network. Last week (15 March), a freight locomotive came off the...Read more
