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Summer storm stops Scotland in its tracks

Simon Walton
August 4, 2025
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Scotland will be cut off from the UK rail network on Monday, 4 August 2025. Both the East Coast and West Coast main lines will…

Japanese consortium buys into Scottish port

Simon Walton
August 1, 2025
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A Mitsui-led consortium has taken control at the Port of Nigg in the north of Scotland. Local owners Global Energy Group (GEG) have divested key assets in a strategic sale.

The freight that time forgot

Simon Walton
August 1, 2025
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The Greatest Gathering marks 200 years of railway history—but what does it say about the next 20 years? Amid the gleaming restorations and passenger legends,…

UK East Coast’s busiest day thrown into chaos by another bridge bash

Simon Walton
July 31, 2025
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Britain’s prestige railway line, the East Coast Main Line, was blocked again on Thursday (31 July). A vehicle, understood to be a commercial truck, hit…

40,000 brownfield homes to be built on UK’s surplus railway land

Simon Walton
July 31, 2025
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Rail freight is being placed at the heart of the UK government’s latest housing drive. An initiative, christened the “Platform4 Property Company”, is promising to…

Helrom defiant as insolvency clouds boardroom turbulence

Simon Walton
July 30, 2025
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Helrom, the European pioneers of a side‑loading rail trailer for trucks, is defiant in the face of widely reported difficulties in the boardroom. T

Cemex UK and DB Cargo reach one-million-tonne milestone

Simon Walton
July 30, 2025
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Cemex and DB Cargo have moved more than one million tonnes of aggregates through the rail-fed terminal at Warrington since the facility opened in mid-2016.…

Tracks and trade bind east to west

Simon Walton
July 30, 2025
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China has become the workshop of the world and remains eager to share the fruits of those labours. Rail plays a small but increasingly important role in getting some of those goods to market.

UK commits £30m to maritime decarbonisation and clean-tech growth

Simon Walton
July 29, 2025
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Coastal communities and green innovators across the UK are to benefit from a GB£30m boost aimed at cleaning up sea travel and powering economic renewal through green maritime technologies.

Cemex aggreagtes move a million tonnes from Warrington

Simon Walton
July 29, 2025
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Global building materials company Cemex and the UK arm of rail freight operator DB Cargo have moved more than 1mT of aggregates through the rail-fed terminal at Warrington. The milestone in stone movement was reached after a decade of operations at the North West of England terminal. Originally conceived as a short-term “pop-up” site in mid-2016, the terminal has since become a key component in Cemex’s UK distribution network.