Styled with a modest lowercase, enfinium, a UK “energy from waste” operator, has received its first waste delivery by train at Ferrybridge. The site in…
Category: Freightliner UK
Freightliner strengthens electric locomotive roster
UK operator Freightliner, part of the American Genesee and Wyoming corporation, has made a pair of locomotive purchases. They come from rival DB Cargo UK, part of the German Deutsche Bahn operation. The two biggest rail freight operators in the UK have agreed a deal that sees a pair of ‘class 90’ electric locomotives transfer…
Fuel supplier Zero offers rail freight industry absolutely nothing
Carbon-neutral synthetic diesel could be just the tonic the rail freight industry is seeking. Operators will have to radically rethink their motive power fleets to meet the stringent net zero carbon ambitions set out in law by the UK government. New fuels for old locomotives could be the environmental and economical answer. Enter Zero, with…
Freightliner chief says get costs down for sake of environment
Tim Shoveller, the chief executive of Genesee and Wyoming UK and Europe, less tongue twistingly branded as Freightliner, has bemoaned the rising cost of operating rail freight in the face of environmental issues. On the first anniversary of his appointment, the former Network Rail boss has called out the widening gap between the costs of…