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Rail freight currently carries one in four of the containers coming into our ports but could carry an even higher proportion, said rail minister Paul Maynard on publishing the government’s new Rail Freight Strategy on 13 September.
Rail reduces carbon emissions by around three quarters compared to road, and also significantly reduces local air pollution, road damage, traffic noise and accidents.
Since rail privatisation in the 1990s, the rail freight industry’s ...
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The Port of Boulogne-Calais officially opened its new Rail Motorway Terminal on 23 October, saying it had become the first in Europe to have such a facility. The Rail Motorway Terminal is the first stage in a strategy to develop the transport of unaccompanied semi-trailers and will, from January ...
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The Rail Freight Group (RFG) has called on Government to urgently confirm that key rail upgrades for freight are to go ahead as planned, following the announcement on 30 September that the Midland Main Line and Transpennine electrification schemes are to be ‘unpaused’.
Key freight schemes presently amongst those included in ...
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Associated British Ports (ABP) was named the Rail Freight Group's business of the year at the Awards Dinner held at the Shendish Manor Hotel, Hertfordshire on 8 September.
ABP won the award for its work on the Immingham Renewables Fuel Terminal Project, part of a £130m investment to evolve an ...
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The rail industry was disappointed by the Secretary of State’s for Transport announcement on 25 June that some cherished projects, including the electrification of the Midland Main Line and Transpennine routes are to be “paused”.
While electrification per se will have little impact on freight movements – most of which would ...
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Scotland needs better railways if more freight is to be shifted from road, the Rail Freight Group (RFG) told the Scottish Government, In a submission to the Inquiry into Freight Transport by the Scottish Parliament’s Infrastructure & Capital Investment Committee, RFG described the network as “a patchwork of varying capability ...
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The Rail Freight Group says it has real concerns that the industry could be “marginalised” as Network Rail moves back under Government control and the Labour Party announced proposals to bring infrastructure management and passenger franchising closer together. RFG said it had “real concerns that rail freight could be marginalised ...
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Developer Helioslough has gained planning permission to build a controversial rail freight terminal on the site of the former Radlett Airfield. Planning Minister Nick Boles on behalf of Communities and Local Government Secretay Eric Pickles told St Albans MP Anne Main in a letter on 14 July that an appeal ...
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The Planning Inspectorate has given development consent for the third phase of the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT). The project includes a new rail link from the existing DIRFT to a new interchange, together with new transhipment sidings, container storage, truck reception area and parking and up to 731,000sq ...
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The Welsh Government's Freight Task and Finish Group has published its report on the future of the sector; Edwina Hart, Minister for Economy, Science and Transport at Welsh Government, said that she will accept its recommendations.
These include developing intermodal freight networks, improving key trunk routes such as the A55 expressway ...
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