Topic: SRFI

Aerial image of a rail freight terminal as imagined by Segro

Oxford freight terminal plans on hold due to road infrastructure concerns

The proposed Strategic Rail Freight Interchange, which would serve a large logistics park on land east of the former Upper Heyford Air Base, between Bicester and Banbury, north of Oxford, has been put on hold...Read more

02-05-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Rail freight resistance in seething St Albans

If Segro, the proposed developers of a redundant airfield, thought their plans to build a rail freight terminal were in the bag, they may have to think again. Despite a string of administrative and legal...Read more

25-01-2023|2 comments|author: Simon Walton

Proposal for a new rail freight terminal in Oxford underway

Public consultation on proposals for a vast new warehouse and rail freight park near Bicester in the Oxfordshire countryside opens this week. A Channel Islands based company, Oxfordshire Railfreight Limited, is preparing plans for a...Read more

10-05-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Works underway at Northampton Strategic Rail Freight Interchange

Logistics infrastructure specialists Winvic Construction have reached a turnkey point in the English Midlands. As contractors at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton Gateway, the company has begun the programme of works for a strategic rail freight...Read more

19-07-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton

UK needs more rail-linked warehousing

Britain’s changing economic profile has highlighted the need for much more rail-served warehousing. That’s the message from the global logistics specialists behind a portfolio of modern strategic rail freight terminals. Speaking to an audience from...Read more

09-06-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton