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Modal shift in Scotland

News22 Jan 2015

The "playing field needs to be levelled" if more freight is to be transferred from road to rail, argues the Rail Freight Group...

News28 Apr 2014

Cuts of up to 50% in access charges for through rail freight trains could be on the cards...

News30 May 2013

ETICA(Eurotunnel Incentive for Capacity Additions) is aimed at boosting intermodal rail freight traffic via the Channel tunnel...

News28 Jan 2013

British rail freight interets have welcomed the British government's commitment to the "High Speed 2" link between London and Birmingham and...

News6 Nov 2012

The plans to reunite track and train under a new holding are proving controversial...

News11 Oct 2011

The British government's Roads Minister, Mike Penning, has authorised trials on longer semi-trailers, within an overall rig length of 18.75m...

News1 Feb 2011

The British Rail Freight Group has expressed anger at the Department for Transport’s decision to ‘officially close’ the Freight Facili...

News1 Jun 2003

It is understood that UK-based Rail Freight Ltd (the Minimodal consortium) is tendering for 500 2.55m square minicontainers....

News7 Nov 2001

With Railtrack put into administration, the British rail privatisation model has collapsed, amid a welter of mutual recrimination and bitter...

News14 Mar 2001

There are indications that some "weigh out" combi-traffic in the UK has migrated back to road since the 44-tonne rule was generalised and va...

News1 Mar 2001

The UK Railfreight Group (RFG) has described the fines of �2000 per illegal immigrant which EWS (and any future Channel tunnel railfreight...

News1 Nov 2000

Two UK "think tanks," the Integrated Transport Commission and the Institute of Policy Studies, have come out against big cuts in diesel fuel...

News1 Jan 2000

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