The long-running argument over a home-counties rail freight terminal continues in the UK. Campaigners against plans for a new rail freight interchange on the site of the former Radlett airfield near St Albans say they...Read more
No one said it would be easy to lay down a new rail freight terminal. The very mention of the words conjures up a half-century-old concept of vast marshalling yards with clanking wagons and thundering...Read more
If local opposition and media are to be understood, then the controversial rail freight terminal proposals for the former Radlett Aerodrome near St Albans is a step closer to realisation. A difficult land purchase has...Read more
The seemingly never ending story of the proposed rail freight terminal near St Albans has taken another twist. The sale of designated “Green Belt” land – an area with some protection from development – has...Read more
There is no end in sight to the increasingly acrimonious dispute over the proposed development of a new logistics park and rail freight terminal just north of London. The controversy surrounding the development of the...Read more
Another rail freight terminal proposal is coming under fire in the southeast of England. Campaigners in the cathedral city of St Albans have said “no thank you” to plans to convert a former airfield into...Read more
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
The planned conversion of a former strategic military air base into a strategic rail freight terminal seems to have passed the final hurdles to development. However, after decades of opposition, campaigners are still fighting the...Read more
The UK has a bouquet of intermodal terminals about to blossom. From Scotland to London, several projects are in either planning, development or nearing commissioning. Modal shift to rail is welcomed by environmental policy makers,...Read more