Freight constrained by HS2 cutback, say industry chiefs
Tim Shoveller, chief executive of Freightliner, has issued a warning. He says HS2 will add to congestion, and not solve it. The cutback version of the high-speed rail network will actually add traffic to the...Read more
HS2 materials by rail target reached and doubled says Minister Merriman
Huw Merriman, the UK minister for rail, whose portfolio also oversees the HS2 high-speed rail project, says construction is on target in one important metric. The HS2 materials by rail strategy remains at the heart...Read more
Selling HS2 land will stunt rail freight says infrastructure chief
The Campaign for Better Transport says to stop the rush to sell off HS2 land. The influential lobby group has added its voice to the urgent call to put a hold on the headlong disposal...Read more
UK rail minister commits investment to freight
Huw Merriman, who holds the rail portfolio in the UK government, has pledged to a number of projects which will directly benefit rail freight operations. Most prominently, he said that the Ely Area Capacity Enhancement...Read more
HS2 tunnel rings by rail removes a million lorry miles from London
Britain’s high-speed rail project may have been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately. While work has been abandoned on the northern sections of the line, work continues on the core of the...Read more
Road hauliers refute HS2 cancellation boon
Cancelling HS2, Britain’s high-speed railway project, will not necessarily benefit road hauliers, say industry insiders. The announcement by the UK Prime Minister that the project would be cancelled beyond Birmingham by stopping work on the...Read more
Ely benefits from HS2 cancellation, but project still a decade away
The cancellation of the HS2 project between Birmingham and Manchester has resulted in the reassignment of funds initially allocated for Britain’s high-speed rail project. Instead, the prime minister Rishi Sunak has pledged a raft of...Read more
HS2 goes underground but avoids the jam by taking the freight train
You’re building a railway under London. You need 83,000 prefabricated tunnel wall segments. Your factory is in Hartlepool, 250 miles (400km) north of Old Oak Common. If that seems like a rail freight job, you’d...Read more
HS2 couples with rail freight for the long haul
The UK’s ambitious HS2 high-speed rail project has for a long time been emphasising its credentials as a capacity enhancement for the British railway network. Now, HS2 Limited, the company formed by the government to...Read more
Rail removes one million tonnes of spoil for HS2
Rail freight partners at HS2, Britain’s high speed rail project, have lifted one million tonnes of spoil from its London rail logistics hub. That effort represents one fifth of the total tonnage anticipated throughout the...Read more
UK government update to Integrated Rail Plan receives cautious welcome
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) North has expressed a qualified welcome to the government’s response to the Transport Select Committee report on the 2021 Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP), a comprehensive...Read more
British rail freight keeps HS2 on schedule at Old Oak Common
Two years into the project and ramping up to around 1.500 trains a year. Five freight services a day is the average service for the vast HS2 project, and nowhere is that more evident than...Read more
Ten million tons moved by rail HS2 and counting
The high-speed rail project HS2 reached the important milestone of moving ten million tonnes of construction materials by rail. The accomplishment is particularly important considering the project reached its target way ahead of its time,...Read more
HS2 pause means more than lost business for rail freight
The UK government has decided to slow down the building of the HS2 project. That pause, covering significant parts of the project, will inevitably have an impact on rail freight operations. The company formed to...Read more
West London Orbital freight line would connect Heathrow and HS2
Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled ambitious plans to massively upgrade a freight-only spur and rebrand it as the West London Orbital, a link that will connect Hounslow to Hendon and West Hampstead in the...Read more
HS2 launches 3rd London TBM and commits to zero road trucks
Britain’s high-speed rail project HS2 is all set for a third tunnel dig in London. The huge civil engineering project, initially building a new railway line between London and Birmingham, will run under the streets...Read more
HS2 and the rail freight part in moving construction materials
HS2 Limited, the company formed specifically to build the London-Birmingham railway, has made extensive use of rail freight support throughout its construction phase. To date, the operations have moved millions of tonnes of materials, to and from construction...Read more
Rail freight dismay at HS2 construction delay
Page after page has been submitted in a flurry of fury over the UK government decision to further delay the HS2 high speed rail project. Construction had already been extended, with elements of the project...Read more
Crucial rail junction in Scotland to close till mid-summer
Carstairs, where the West Coast Main Line branches to both Glasgow and Edinburgh, will close from this weekend for extensive remodelling. Scotland’s Railway, the authority in Scotland that works in partnership with infrastructure agency Network...Read more