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…
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ETCS Testing Surpasses Significant Milestone for both Passenger and Freight trains
A class 66 and 387 have passed ETCS testing enabling the feature to be potentially rolled out across both train fleets
Locomotive naming celebrates fifty years of North Yorkshire power station
On Sunday (18 August), DB Cargo UK unveiled the 'Yorkshire Rose' to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the controversial Drax Power Stati…
Children’s Hospice Benefit from Drax Rail Event
Special Charter trains around the loop at Drax Power Station raises £30,000 for charity
All trains to Yorkshire power station now powered by Vegetable Oil
All DB Cargo UK trains transporting fuel to the renewable energy plant at Drax will now use environmentally friendly Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil.
What next for Royal Mail’s rail operations?
Royal Mail says it is to end using its Class 325 to operate its postal services.
Report released into MOD wagon runaway in Warwickshire
The RAIB has released a report into a runaway wagon at Kineton MOD sidings in Warwickshire.
£11,000 raised for charity by Star Wars-themed rail tours
The Branch Line Society operated two rail tours in early May in order to fundraise for the Martin House Hospice.
Rail Freight Familiarisation Training courses launched
Maidstone-based support company Victa Railfreight has run the first of a series of Rail Freight Familiarisation Training courses for Network Rail Mobi…
First ‘modified’ Class 66 locomotive enters service
Some of DB Cargo's Class 66 locomotives are being modified with different gear ratios that will enable them to haul heavier loads.