Freight train leaving Drax Power Station with empty biomass trucks

UK Rail Partners call for a trebling of rail freight

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Rail Partners, a representative membership body lobbying for passenger-owning groups and freight companies members, says it can help rebalance and decarbonise a growing UK economy. The association has been responding to a call for evidence from the Great British Railways Transition Team and sets out the need for an ambitious freight growth target to transform the sector over the next three decades.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

1 comment op “UK Rail Partners call for a trebling of rail freight”

bönström bönström|19.10.22|12:42

Yes, railways can “help businesses scale up both domestically and internationally”!
Therefore, now the devastating failure of Commission (cause of Brexit?) should be analysed – and benefitted of!
(Infrastructure strategy of EU does not meet with Goal of “Union”.)
Primarily England/Scotland need an own goal, singular, a goal benefitting of being an island (by nearness to ports).
Railways, as well now has to learn from success story of automobile – and the contemporary – decline of railways…

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Freight train leaving Drax Power Station with empty biomass trucks

UK Rail Partners call for a trebling of rail freight

Freight train leaving Drax Power Station Image: Rail Partners

Rail Partners, a representative membership body lobbying for passenger-owning groups and freight companies members, says it can help rebalance and decarbonise a growing UK economy. The association has been responding to a call for evidence from the Great British Railways Transition Team and sets out the need for an ambitious freight growth target to transform the sector over the next three decades.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

1 comment op “UK Rail Partners call for a trebling of rail freight”

bönström bönström|19.10.22|12:42

Yes, railways can “help businesses scale up both domestically and internationally”!
Therefore, now the devastating failure of Commission (cause of Brexit?) should be analysed – and benefitted of!
(Infrastructure strategy of EU does not meet with Goal of “Union”.)
Primarily England/Scotland need an own goal, singular, a goal benefitting of being an island (by nearness to ports).
Railways, as well now has to learn from success story of automobile – and the contemporary – decline of railways…

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