GB Railfreight donates to Prostate Cancer UK
British operator GB Railfreight has made a valuable delivery that didn’t require one of their regular freight services. The company has made good on a two-year partnership with Prostate Cancer UK. A partnership between the...Read more
GB Railfreight awarded as UK’s Rail Business of the Year
One of the UK’s biggest business groups, Logistics UK, has named GB Railfreight Ltd the Rail Business of the Year at its annual Logistics Awards, held at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge on Thursday 8...Read more
Anglo-Welsh freight-passenger dispute resolved by rail regulator
A long-standing dispute between passenger and freight operators, over access to a line between North Wales and The Wirral Penisula in England, has been resolved by the Office of Rail and Road. A ruling means...Read more
Coca Cola bottler to put 2.5 million cans and bottles on the train per day
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the bottler of Coca-Cola drinks, is making the switch from road to rail for the distribution of the soft drinks to warehouse locations across London and Yorkshire. In partnership with Maritime...Read more
Welsh slate lifts the roof on rail freight in the north
Rail freight has another UK first. Traditional Welsh slate aggregate is being transported by rail to Luton, just north of London, in a significant modal shift. The development is a joint initiative between the infrastructure...Read more
Gigaplant means yet more traffic for North Blyth
You wait fifty years for good news on the local railway, and then two announcements come at once. Hard on the tail lights of the go-ahead for would-be passengers on the South Northumberland line comes...Read more
Wascosa, GB Railfreight and Network Rail announce rolling stock deal
A rake of pristine modular wagons, so box fresh they almost have the wrapping paper still on them, and a locomotive so strikingly liveried that one feared to touch the almost dry paint. All that...Read more
UK rail freight joins in the Jubilee celebrations
Union Jack flags waving from drivers’ cabs, maybe even ‘God Save the Queen’ on the horn and a right royal drive past. From 2 to 5 June, the UK is celebrating the platinum jubilee of...Read more
GB Railfreight flies the flag for Ukraine
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
Freight and passenger traffic clash between England and Wales
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
Three-way partnership for another new wagon deal with GB Railfreight
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
UK first rail freight electrification trial boosts industry net zero ambitions
The UK’s first retractable electrification system for rail freight has taken the wires to the loading bay. The industry has led the way in meeting the net-zero ambitions set out by government legislation. A public...Read more
UK’s Holy Grail could be retractable electric supply
A ground-breaking design incorporating retractable overhead electric traction could be the answer that the UK rail freight industry has been waiting for. A collaboration between Swiss-headquartered engineering specialists Furrer and Frey, aggregates company Tarmac, and...Read more
Revamped Newhaven sees GB Railfreight launch
The investment in the redevelopment of rail freight facilities at Newhaven continues to pay off. This week saw the inauguration of a new bulk flow operated by GB Railfreight on behalf of clients Brett Aggregates....Read more
Recycling Britain’s railways at Whitemoor is on top of the agenda
It has been just over ten years since a virtually redundant marshalling yard in the east of England found a new purpose as an industrial recycling centre. At the time, turning Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire into...Read more
Clayton battery loco for GB Railfreight
UK operator GB Railfreight has taken delivery of a new battery powered locomotive from British suppliers Clayton. The shunting locomotive has been delivered on a three-month trial from Beacon Rail Leasing. Designated Class 18 Hybrid+,...Read more
Felixstowe gets 38th daily service, this time to Birmingham
Maritime Transport, the familiar provider of integrated road and rail logistics, has launched a new intermodal service this week, connecting its Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal (BIFT) with Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe. It’s the 38th...Read more
Smiles all round as GBRf appoint social media brand ambassador
Francis Bourgeois, the TikTok star and permanently enthusiastic railway enthusiast, has been appointed brand ambassador to the UK operator GB Railfreight. The company are hailing the agreement as a step forward in relations between the...Read moreProstate Cancer UK benefits from GB Railfreight fundraiser
British rail freight operator GB Railfreight has brought some Christmas cheer to the Prostate Cancer UK charity. A railtour organised by the company raised over 147,000 pounds (163,000 euros). The voyage across the network started...Read more