UK electric hauled freight has shown little change over the past ten years. That’s according to new figures just released by the Office of Rail and Road, the government-appointed independent watchdog. In terms of weight...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the autonomous government safety and performance watchdog, has assessed Network Rail Scotland as part of a nationwide review. The annual report card is not good reading for the...Read more
The latest set of statistics from the UK office of Rail and Road paint a rosy picture of rail freight recovery from the pandemic. However, the pandemic does skew the statistics and longer term trends...Read more
Official figures from the Office of Rail and Road point to a recovery in the rail freight sector. The latest quarterly statistics show traffic has recovered to levels seen before the onset of the pandemic....Read more
There is always room for improvement. That is the note on a sheaf of end-of-term report card on the UK rail network. Both the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and the Rail Safety and...Read more
WH Malcolm Limited has been fined 6,5 million pounds (7,7 million euros) after being found guilty of negligence over the death of an eleven-year-old boy in 2017. The case comes to light just as the...Read more
The official UK government figures, issued by the Office of Rail and Road, show expected retrenchment in rail freight activity. Much of that is attributed directly to the pandemic. Consequently, signs of recovery are there,...Read more
The latest figures from the Office of Rail and Road crept out in the first week of March. They show a slight decline in freight traffic metrics on Britain’s railways. The fourth quarter will likely...Read more
The Office of Rail and Road, the oversight body in the UK, has said it is investigating the performance of Network Rail, the infrastructure manager for most of the network, and has issued a warning...Read more
A big decline in demand for coal movements was a key factor in rail freight falling significantly in the UK during 2016/17, according to official figures. Rail freight moved fell to 17.2 billion net tonne...Read more
The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has welcomed a new training course offering rail safety awareness training to the construction materials industry. Shaped by the RFG’s own construction working group, the course is targeting those working...Read more
Rail freight volumes in the UK towards the end of 2016 were down almost three per cent on the same period for 2015, new figures show. The Office for Rail and Road (ORR) says 4.42...Read more
The Rail Freight Group says it is ‘concerned’ at suggestions the budget for rail freight grants in the UK could be reduced. It follows a report that the Government’s mode shift revenue support (MSRS) grant had...Read more
DB Cargo UK has played a central role in a multi-agency exercise to stage a simulated train derailment by hosting the event at one of its northern England sites. A locomotive and several carriages were...Read more
