New Class 99 locomotives to use vegetable oil
GB Railfreight has today announced that its new Stadler-built Class 99 locomotives will run off electricity or renewable fuels such as HVO, or Hydrotreated Vegetable…
Category: Freight
DB Cargo opens South Yorkshire Digital Signalling Training Centre
A new training centre of excellence to train staff in the European Train Control System has been officially opened by DB Cargo UK at its HQ in Doncast…
Tesco signs contract extension with Direct Rail Services
Tesco container trains to run under DRS for another 3 years
Cemex and Victa Railfreight continue partnership at Derbyshire quarry
Construction materials company Cemex is to continue its partnership with Victa Railfreight at Dove Holes quarry in the Peak District.
GB Railfreight to reintroduce service to Northamptonshire
From 11 November, GB Railfreight will run a daily service between Felixstowe and the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal in Northamptonshire.
GB Railfreight records new high in global sustainability benchmark
GB Railfreight has announced that it has been awarded a new high in the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark. The freight operator has been awarded…
New London rail freight yard ‘unanimously’ approved
The London Legacy Development Corporation has voted unanimously to approve an outline 'masterplan' for a rail freight campus and last-mile logistics b…
More Tesco products to be delivered by rail
Tesco has launched a new rail freight service, taking thousands of lorries off the road. The new service will be operated by Direct Rail Services…
GB Railfreight to unveil new locomotive at international transport exhibition
On Wednesday, 25 September GB Railfreight will unveil its new hybrid Class 99 locomotive at the international transport exhibition InnoTrans in Berlin…
French city runs trial of delivering parcels by tram
The city of Strasbourg in France is carrying out a six-week trial of delivering parcels by tram on one of its main tram routes.