HS2 launches 3rd London TBM and commits to zero road trucks
Britain’s high-speed rail project HS2 is all set for a third tunnel dig in London. The huge civil engineering project, initially building a new railway…
British Biffa bashes on with waste by rail
Biffa, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, has been collaborating with GB Railfreight since 2018 to move household and commercial waste out of…
Network Rail chief: ‘closing the Nuneham bridge absolutely correct’
Andrew Haines, the head of Network Rail, visited the site of the partly collapsed bridge near Oxford and joined the engineer crews. Haines praised the…
88 million pound Easter extravaganza for Network Rail
The UK infrastructure agancy Network Rail has been splashing the cash this Easter weekend, carrying out a programme of more than 600 planned projects to…
UK Railway Industry urges government to meet net-zero goals
Following the launch of their RailDecarb23 campaign, the Railway Industry Association (RIA), which represents the supply chain in the UK industry, has published a new…
Rail freight not the enemy in battle of St Albans
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…
Vital English freight route closed over bridge fears
The Nuneham viaduct in Oxfordshire, which carries the Southampton to the Midlands freight spine over the River Thames, has been closed today (4 April) due…
‘Rail freight has to offer solutions compatible with modern logistics’
Decarbonising transport must be a primary objective to reach Scotland’s stringent climate target goals. The government in Edinburgh has set the deadline five years earlier…
Quarterly figures make lacklustre reading for UK rail freight
Freight transport in Great Britain suffered a sharp decline in the last quarter of 2022. That’s according to the latest data released by the Office…