England’s Hope Valley to be upgraded
The UK government has rubber-stamped a 137 million pound investment (153 million euros) for the Hope Valley line. The route is the major mixed-use connection…
Battered Britain: snow and rain disrupts rail
Floods in the south, blizzards in the north. Storm Christoph delivers a weather shock to the UK, and rail services are affected in several areas.…
Restoring UK railways – the freight option
Among the ten schemes supported in the first round of UK’s Restoring Your Railway Fund, two have a rail freight element and one may help…
Rolling electrification needed to decarbonise UK’s railway by 2040
A consortium of business interests from around the UK has called on the UK government to immediately start a programme of rolling electrification to help…
RailFreight Summit UK comes to Greater Manchester
Significant changes in UK’s rail freight sector are to be addressed at the RailFreight Summit UK, to be held in Greater Manchester on 7 April.…
New daily service between Southampton and Manchester
A new daily intermodal service between the UK cities of Southampton and Manchester was launched by GB Railfreight on Monday 2 September. In the southern…
GB Railfreight to carry waste to Manchester and Leeds
Biffa, a UK-based integrated waste management company, has signed a strategic partnership with GB Railfreight to expand its rail hub network for the transportation of…