commitment to freight Freight to the fore in Great British Railways

Great British Railways, the proposed new overarching body for infrastructure and train management, is to have a statutory requirement to promote rail freight. That much…

aggregates train derailment Manchester bridge back broken under aggregates train

One Manchester bridge is being replaced, while another has shattered under a freight train. Railway neighbours reported the sound of a building collapsing and fixtures…

Contraband on rail Poland and Lithuania fight Belarusian smuggling: ‘State-owned enterprises may also be involved’

Poland and Lithuania are fighting cigarette smuggling on freight trains coming from their neighbour Belarus. The former seems to encounter a growing number of attempts…

ERTMS implementation Norway postpones ERTMS launch due to “global supply crisis”

The launch of ERTMS on the Norwegian Nordlandsbanen will take place later than expected. Infrastructure manager Bane NOR cannot get its hands on the necessary…