The UK multimodal freight carrier Maritime Transport has been appointed rail freight operator at the West Midlands Interchange. The government-designated strategic rail freight interchange (SRFI) is currently under construction at a site north of Wolverhampton....Read more
Network Rail says the Easter programme of works on the UK rail network should be music to the ears of freight operators. It is delivering around ninety million pounds (105 million euros) of enhancement works...Read more
All rail traffic in the UK and Ireland has been significantly disrupted by a vast Atlantic storm that blew in on Sunday and persisted for much of Monday. That’s the good news. The bad news...Read more
Better links between places with limited connectivity, the creation of multi-transport interchanges and better rail flows to airports and ports are all part of the Rail Strategic report suggesting solutions to increase rail freight capacity...Read more
The weekend of 7-8 October witnessed severe weather conditions wreaking havoc on rail services in the northern half of Britain, effectively isolating Scotland from England. Both the East Coast and West Coast main lines were...Read more
Railway engineers have successfully concluded the crucial phase of connecting a major new rail freight interchange to the West Coast Main Line at Northampton. The pivotal track installation effort was imperative in establishing a new...Read more
Nothing less than a gateway to connectivity. Northampton’s new railway tunnel will eventually be buried beneath a monumental landscaping project. For now, it’s a naked example of the engineering behind realising the Strategic Rail Freight...Read more
Winvic Construction, a contractor specialising in large-scale civil engineering and infrastructure projects, has been appointed as the first phase contractor for the West Midlands Interchange (WMI) project. The project, valued at one billion pounds (1.16...Read more
UK start-up express logistics operator Varamis Rail has handed down a challenge to passenger operators on the UK’s West Coast Main Line. The company is currently operating five days a week on the Birmingham-Glasgow route...Read more
After an extensive twelve-week phased closure, Carstairs Junction, on the West Coast Main Line in Scotland, has reopened to all traffic. The closure provided the infrastructure agency Network Rail with an opportunity to invest over...Read more
Work on the 164 million pound (almost 200 million euros) Carstairs junction remodelling project is entering its endgame. It has been a challenge for Scotland’s Railway, the partnership that administers the network, to keep services...Read more
There’s a distinctive Scottish granite adorning a Scottish rail project. The red granite ballast is used in the extensive remodelling of Carstairs Junction, the critical interchange at the northern end of the West Coast Main...Read more
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
The upcoming review of Britain’s high-speed railway project could provide unexpected benefits for rail freight. The massive project to build a new line between London and Birmingham is to come under scrutiny again, as costs...Read more
The cross-border West Coast Main Line between Scotland and England has been severed by a landslip following the end-of-year storm that ravaged the south of Scotland. The line, which is the busiest mixed traffic route...Read more
Plans for a new rail freight terminal just south of Glasgow have been emphatically rejected by the local authority. Logistics operator John G Russell Group had hoped to establish a terminal on the site of...Read more
A massive crane lift has helped Carlisle repairs ramp up. Eight hundred tonnes of crane does not come cheap, but that’s the price of restoring the railway south and east of Carlisle. After a massive...Read more
Initial hopes that the derailment at Carlisle would be resolved in a matters of days have resolved into weeks. The cement train that came off the tracks in the south east of the English city...Read more
This week’s heatwave has put pressure on UK infrastructure like never before. The unprecedented closure of the East Coast Main Line, in the face of temperatures more akin to Spain than Stevenage, was the headline...Read more
It slipped out with little fanfare on a day that might be designated as ‘a good one for bad news’. The government quietly cancelled the Golborne Link – a short section of the HS2 project...Read more
Rail freight has rebounded strongly from the pandemic, backed by underlying growth. That is the message from a panel of industry experts debating the sector’s future at a recent round-table in Edinburgh. Rail insiders, industry...Read more
