The Rail Freight Group has welcomed the government’s commitment to rail freight interchanges, as expressed in its National Planning Policy Framework
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Felixstowe is starting work on the new North Rail Terminal – its third rail terminal and the first designed to handle 30 wagon freight trains
Transport secretary Justine Greening has warned rail freight operators that they will need to continue to pursue cost savings
Tesco has launched a new rail service from its rail enabled distribution centre at Daventry to the Wentloog terminal in South Wales to serve its Magor distribution centre
Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight which could have switched to rail transport will stay on the roads as a result of the Scottish government’s 62.5 per cent cut in funding for Freight Facilities Grants
The government’s decision to push ahead with a high speed rail line to the Midlands and North West (HS2) got a welcome from the Rail Freight Group and a warning from the Freight Transport Association that it must not be allowed to distract from the needs
Rail freight operator Direct Rail Services has ordered a fleet of newly designed mixed traffic diesel locomotives for use in its intermodal and passenger train operations
The chief executives of four rail freight companies have called for the elimination of bottlenecks on the important Rotterdam-Genoa rail freight corridor
Stobart has re-started its rail freight service between Valencia, Spain and Barking
The European Commission has is to refer Germany to the European Court of Justice for failure to implement common rules on achieving inter-operability of European railways
