State-owned companies are playing an ever smaller role in the European rail freight industry. New market entrants are proving themselves to be worthy competitors. At…
Decades of debate about signalling systems have framed rail’s capacity crisis as an infrastructure problem. But the internet taught us that the most transformative capacity…
Some time ago, RailFreight.com published an opinion piece taking a rarely heard perspective. It argued against the urgency of 740-metre trains in Europe. RailFreight.com and…
The European Commission (EC) recently adopted the new Land and Multimodal Transport Guidelines, which will replace the 2008 Railway Guidelines on state aid rules to…
It has been almost a week since the devastating blaze adjacent to Glasgow Central Station forced the indefinite closure of Scotland’s busiest rail hub. Passenger…