Le Shuttle freight down in 2021
NewsOn top of that, through rail freight traffic continues to fall, despite the move to unaccompanied transports...
Freight trains with digital automatic coupling
NewsA cargo train "of the future" has started test voyages through Germany and into neighbouring countries...
DRS renews with Tesco
NewsDirect Rail Services has renewed its trunk haulage agreements with the UK’s biggest supermarket chain...
RailCargo extends TransFER to Austria-Scandinavia transports
NewsRailCargo (ÖBB Austrian Railways Group) has launched a new wagon load service between Linz/Wels and Malmö in Sweden; Eurogate Intermodal r...
New gondola car for Norfolk Southern
NewsNorfolk Southern, United States Steel Corporation and The Greenbrier Companies have come up with a new design of low tare gondola car for lo...
CargoNet launches “salmon train”
NewsThe new intermodal service from the Norwegian rail freight company is aimed at salmon shipments for the European market. The first train car...
Rail freight and the UK government’s £96B Integrated Rail Plan
NewsConcern has been expressed by CILT (UK branch) and the Rail Freight Group over cancellation of key projects as it will limit modal shift pot...
HVO100 for DB Cargo UK
NewsIn a first for the UK, hybrid cars built in the English Midlands will soon be carried to continental Europe via an eco-locomotive that runs ...
Sweden commits to North Bothnia Line
NewsA high speed, 270-kms passenger and freight railway will connect the Swedish communes of Umeå and Luleå, linking the resource-rich region ...
Orion and Network Rail in fast rail freight demonstration
NewsOrion chose London Euston station for its latest demonstration of how the concept works...
InRail provides Croatia-France through rail service
NewsItaly-based rail freight company InRail has carried out its longest ever journey, 2000 kms, in just 60 hours...
CMA CGM acquires Spanish intermodal train company
NewsCMA CGM has acquired private rail operator Continental Rail through its internal logistics arm CCIS...
Clean Air Power GT secures UK government funding for duel-fuel Class 66s
NewsA consortium of Clean Air Power and Freightliner has secured almost £0.4M of government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Cla...
Vossloh makes a hit with dual mode DM20-EBB electric locomotive
NewsVossloh Locomotives and its Chinese parent company CRRC Zelc have concluded a ‘Purchase agreement’ for up to 50 full electrical locomoti...
German progamme for battery-electric and fuel cell locos
NewsThe German government is granting €227M worth of subsidy for battery-electric or fuel cell battery electric locomotives...