Topic: Williams-Shapps

Modal shift now, rail freight industry tells UK government

The UK Government must support shifting freight from road to rail for a greener economic recovery, says the rail industry representative body Rail Delivery Group. On behalf of its freight operator members, it is calling...Read more

08-07-2021|1 comment|author: Simon Walton

‘Once you work in railways, you stay in railways’

The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail propose strategic changes to the way UK railway is governed, but talent will not be flowing away from the industry. Once people are in railway, they stay in railway. The...Read more

31-05-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Portrait of Maggie Simpson the director general of the Rail Freight Group in the UK

Rail Freight Group welcomes UK rail reform

The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has called today’s Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail the ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ to grow freight, as long as the proposed rail reforms deliver on the promises. The UK government has...Read more

20-05-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Class 66 locomotive at the head of an intermodal train at Felixstowe

Sweeping changes announced for UK rail industry

Great British Railways – the new name and the new structure for the entire industry in the UK. That is the headline for the sweeping reforms announced today (20 May) by the UK government. A...Read more

20-05-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton