Network Rail has been negotiating with engineering firms around the UK. The UK infrastructure agency has signed a wide-ranging, long-term partnership to streamline infrastructure improvement work. The agreements are in place for the next five years. There’s a new initiative in the Anglia region of Network Rail. The Eastern Routes Partnership has signed up a…
Author: Simon Walton
Buckland Rail becomes a UK brand
UK holding company Buckland Rail has amalgamated its family of rail businesses under their own brand. It means a change of logo for some well-known companies. Gone will be the familiar names of WH Davis and Davis Wagon Services, and the engineering support company Yellow Rail. All three will become unified as part of the…
Freight collaborates to improve Severn Estuary passenger service
Freight operators have collaborated to help make the most of improvements to the Severn Estuary line. The route, which crosses the border between South Wales and Gloucestershire in England, is the subject of a much-improved passenger timetable. That service has been slotted in around an already diverse roster of freight services. Around forty freight train…
Rail freight London trash is capital cash
Reducing, reusing, recycling; but still, London throws away a train load of trash every day. That’s either a big problem or a big opportunity. For rail freight, it’s the latter. Five times a week, the waste that previously was London’s landfill, now fills a train instead. It heads west to Bristol, where it’s made into…
Rail freight London trash is capital cash
Reducing, reusing, recycling; but still, London throws away a train load of trash every day. That’s either a big problem or a big opportunity. For rail freight, it’s the latter. Five times a week, the waste that previously was London’s landfill, now fills a train instead. It heads west to Bristol, where it’s made into…
Maritime Transport to operate Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange
Maritime Transport has signed an agreement to operate the Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange. The integrated road and rail freight logistics provider will develop a 40-acre (16 hectare) site, designated a strategic rail freight interchange by the UK government. The SRFI will be capable of handling 16 trains per day when fully operational. Developers Tritax…
Maritime Transport to operate Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange
Maritime Transport has signed an agreement to operate the Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange. The integrated road and rail freight logistics provider will develop a 40-acre (16 hectare) site, designated a strategic rail freight interchange by the UK government. The SRFI will be capable of handling 16 trains per day when fully operational. Developers Tritax…
Maritime Transport to operate Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange
Maritime Transport has signed an agreement to operate the Hinckley National Rail Freight Interchange. The integrated road and rail freight logistics provider will develop a 40-acre (16 hectare) site, designated a strategic rail freight interchange by the UK government. The SRFI will be capable of handling 16 trains per day when fully operational. Developers Tritax…
East of England campaigners push shadow transport secretary for crucial upgrades
Rail campaigners from Suffolk, are set to meet with the shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh MP, on Tuesday, 21 May. With a general election soon in the UK, they are approaching the official opposition Labour Party. Campaigners advocate critical improvements to the rail network in the East of England. Any improvements would have substantial benefits…
UK Freight Innovation Fund encourages rail development
The UK Government has launched the latest tranche of its seed funding initiative, the Freight Innovation Fund. The initiative could encourage rail freight innovation across all sectors. The seven million pound (8.2 million euros) cross-modal cash grant is intended to help drive towards a net-zero carbon economy. UK small businesses with ideas on cross-modal logistics…