Freight
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Over a million lorries to be taken off the roads by HS2
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The first rail freight delivery of aggregate has arrived at HS2’s Washwood Heath site in Birmingham, signalling the start of the major project to take up to 1.5 million lorries off the roads to cut carbon emissions.
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Behind the scenes at Long Rock
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Last year, Great Western Railway staged an open day at Long Rock depot, Penzance in April, raising money for the Penlee Lifeboat station and the RNLI.
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What happened at London Euston?
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Passengers travelling to and from London will have noticed and been impacted by delays and cancellations over the past few days.
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MoD traffic returns to Mid-Norfolk Railway for first time since 2009
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The Mid-Norfolk Railway welcomed the return of military freight traffic last week to its Wymondham to Dereham heritage line.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz camp
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The darkest episode in the history of world railways undoubtedly centres around the role they were forced to play in the transport of civilians to Nazi death camps during the Second World War.
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Canadian National celebrates centenary
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CANADA’s largest rail operator – Canadian National (CN) – celebrated its centenary in 2019 and gave some of its locos a special ‘CN100’ livery. Here, ‘CN100’ livery GE ET44AC No. 3217 leads another GE-built loco (No. 3811) with an eastbound intermodal train north of Kamloops on September 28. CN is the only truly national, transcontinental…
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Construction traffic boom keeps UK railfreight stable
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A FIVE per cent increase in construction traffic took the sector to its highest quarterly volume in the first three months of 2019/20, according to new figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). The movement of construction materials, fuelled by high levels of property development in London and the south-east of England, reached…
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Five things you may not know about British Rail freight
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Here’s a few things you may not have known about British Rail freight…
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Order Your Copy of The Changing Face of Railfreight
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The Changing Face of Railfreight looks back over this period to chart both the physical changes to the network and the organisational changes which have had such an impact on this vital aspect of Britain’s rail network.
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Leighton Buzzard Railway: 100 not out
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Cliff Thomas reports on a rare heritage anniversary – a 2ft-gauge railway that has operated continuously for a century. THE Leighton Buzzard Railway (LBR) will celebrate the line’s 100th anniversary of continuous operation on November 17, the nearest Sunday to the original opening date. Numerous heritage railways have marked anniversaries of 100 years from the…
