At first glance, it appears that rail freight transport in Europe is on an inevitable downward trajectory and will eventually disappear almost entirely. This comes…
From Westminster, UK government chancellor Rachel Reeves’s latest cost-of-living package has delivered welcome relief to parts of the logistics industry. Hauliers have secured a year-long…
Medway and Captrain, the two main operators in Portugal, will have to wait until 2028 to deploy their new Stadler Euro6000 locomotives. The certification of…
The King’s Speech. Great movie, but was the real thing more of a stutter for rail development? There were encouraging words in Parliament on Wednesday,…
The economic slowdown in Europe and the disruption caused by geopolitical crises means France’s rail freight players have been largely marking time since the start…
Rail freight has long complained that Britain’s planning system is designed to frustrate infrastructure development. Now, proposed reforms to planning policy in England, and continuing…
Rail has no shortage of technologies that could improve capacity, reduce energy consumption, and increase service frequency. What it has is a structural inability to…