For years, the logistics industry has happily divided itself into neat little tribes. The rail people gathered in one siding, the road haulage community in…
Britain has been breaking records this week. Temperature records, certainly. Political records too, with the extraordinary events that have propelled Andy Burnham from Manchester’s town…
Britain’s railways have always had a complicated relationship with the ground beneath them. The soaring temperatures of late May brought familiar disruption. Speed restrictions and…
The resignation of John Healey as UK Defence Secretary this week should give everyone involved in transport a moment of pause. His departure was founded…
Why do they keep doing it? Across Europe, entrepreneurial groups are launching new rail freight services. In this intermodal world, the odds seem reachstacked against…
The launch of another rail freight operator should be good news for Britain. At first glance, GoExpress, teasing new high-speed intermodal trials between the Midlands…
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…
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,…
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…