The East West Rail Consortium, which has campaigned to reinstate a railway between Oxford and Cambridge in East Anglia for more than 25 years, has been relaunched as the East West Main Line Partnership. The...Read more
The high-speed rail project, HS2, has celebrated bringing in the one-hundredth train to its Buckinghamshire contraction site in the south east of England. The company says the milestone operations has already taken the equivalent of...Read more
UK’s transport secretary Grant Shapps has launched a 794 million-pound (880 million euros) investment, claiming to boost rail links in the south and north of England. Money has been allocated to develop East West Rail...Read more
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
As of Thursday 10 December, Iran and Afghanistan are connected by rail. The launching of the Khaf (Iran)-Herat (Afghanistan) railway line was accompanied by the first freight train carrying agricultural goods. A week earlier, a...Read more
More than half of the cargo volumes of Belarussian Railway was on transit between Europe and China this year. The railway company of the country transported more than 700,000 TEUs of cargo in the first...Read more
England’s Economic Heartland expects significant growth in the arc between Oxford and Cambridge, but wants rail freight to help. It could limit congestion and reduce heavy goods vehicle traffic by realising its full potential for...Read more
