UK Rail Partners: Massive modal shift needs massive government action
New research urges the UK government to make much greater efforts to encourage modal shift to rail. The work was commissioned by Rail Partners, the lobby organisation that brings together rail freight stakeholders, The research...Read more
UK rail industry builds bridges with Ukrainian counterparts
Network Rail, the British infrastructure management agency, has been working with rail industry partners under the banner UK Rail for Ukraine. The agency has detailed its latest collaboration with the industry across the UK. Freight...Read more
Freight driver sentenced to 8 months imprisonment for causing crash
A driver working for a British freight operator has been given a jail sentence for causing a crash with a passenger train. The accident, almost two years ago and during lockdown procedures, resulted in a...Read more
Tarmac head of rail completes fifty days as chair of Rail Freight Group
One of rail freight’s most active supporters, representing one of the sector’s biggest customers, has completed his first seven weeks in post as the chair of the industry representative body, the Rail Freight Group. Chris...Read more
UK’s high-speed railway says truck off, Bucks!
Britain’s high-speed railway project has engaged with rail freight to move 300,000 truck journeys off the rural roads of Buckinghamshire roads. The first of approximately 1,800 freight trains has been received at the new HS2...Read more
Digital 66 about to revolutionise UK East Coast freight operations
EXCLUSIVEThe first freight locomotive has entered fitting out with an advanced digital communications package, necessary for the step-change upgrade to the prestige London – Scotland main line. Rail freight operator DB Cargo UK and technology...Read more
What is the future for UK’s royal train?
With the solemn formalities concluded for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the royal household is looking very much to the future. The new monarch will have a daunting list of priorities, and a long list...Read more
Power generator backs rail freight generating lobby
The UK’s leading producer of renewable energy has thrown its weight behind the ‘Freight Belongs on Rail’ campaign, championed by Doncaster-based DB Cargo UK. The company’s eponymous power station complex in North Yorkshire is served...Read more
The latest installment in the Freight Belongs on Rail campaign
DB Cargo UK has frequently been busy with the paintbrush, including the most fiery livery yet, the “Steel on Steel” variant most recently released into service on a class 60 locomotive. The eye-catching design highlights...Read moreUK gets all steamed up for support from hi-tech rail freight
It’s back to the future for DB Cargo UK. The UK operator has signed a deal with a specialist charter operator to support their programme for the next three years. The deal with the A1...Read more
HS2 project reaches a megaton milestone
HS2, the UK’s high-speed rail project, is celebrating a rail freight milestone. The company formed to build the railway says it has delivered a million tonnes of materials by rail. That, says HS2 Limited, has...Read more
Disruption, not disaster on East Coast Main Line
On any other day this was a horror crash waiting to happen, with a huge potential loss of life. Instead, on Thursday (23 June) it was just a dramatic incident that caught the attention of...Read more
DB Cargo UK launches empowering new safety campaign
Rail freight operator DB Cargo UK has launched what the company calls “a major new campaign in its ongoing drive to deliver safety excellence across all its operations.” The campaign explicitly empowers the company’s 2,200...Read more
UK cross-industry plans to grow international rail freight traffic
Rail freight operators and commercial stakeholders have debated the future of international rail freight. A round table discussion was hosted by DB Cargo UK at its intermodal terminal in Barking, in the east of London....Read more
Steel to Sunderland vindicates port rail renaissance
British Steel has put its products on rails between their plant at Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire and the Wearside port of Sunderland in the north east of England. The contract with rail freight carrier DB Cargo...Read more
‘UK Rail for Ukraine’ launches first humanitarian aid train
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
Logistics operator celebrates a centenary by supporting leading charity
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
DB Cargo UK combines two services in one train
What DB Cargo UK has called a ‘combi-consist’ has been successfully trialled this week. The carrier says they propose combining more than one type of wagon in one block to improve efficiency. With more than...Read more
DB Cargo wants to convert existing fleet and use biofuels
The HVO fuel or vegetable oil fuel seems to be the future for DB Cargo’s last-mile operations. The company aims to convert its existing diesel locomotive fleet and make it fully compatible with biofuels. Biofuels...Read more