Collapse of Buckingham Group casts shadow over UK rail sector
The weekend announcement of the financial crisis and imminent collapse of Buckingham Group Contracting, a prominent construction company with a significant presence in the UK rail sector, has sent shockwaves through the industry. The company,...Read more
UK East West Rail embraces rail freight into enhanced project
East West Rail, a transformative project aiming to reconnect Oxford and Cambridge through a direct rail route, is poised to unlock new opportunities with the integration of rail freight services. Originally conceived as a passenger-focused...Read more
UK rail projects dodge the axe in Autumn Statement
This month’s UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a long and detailed budget last week. Although dubbed an “Autumn Statement”, the epic two-hour delivery found no voice for the rail industry. That has been largely considered...Read more
Freight features in new line connecting Oxford and Cambridge
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
Merry Rail Upgrades and a happy New East West Line
The UK infrastructure agency Network Rail has completed upgrades to the West Coast Main Line and associated routes between London Euston, the Midlands and the North West of England over the Christmas weekend. Further work...Read more
Freight a key part of the expanded East West Main Line Partnership
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
HS2 celebrates 100 Buckinghamshire trains
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
Where are the freight benefits in UK’s latest near-billion pound investment?
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
Freight advantages in Oxford redevelopment proposals
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
Rail link between Iran-Afghanistan officially launched
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
EU-China traffic via Belarus increased up to 1,6 times for January-September
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