The long-awaited recommencement of tunnelling work on the Old Oak Common to London Euston section of HS2 should be welcomed. After years in the doldrums…
The prevailing narrative of the British economy is one of service-sector dominance, a landscape of finance and consultancy where the soot-stained factories of the 20th…
For too long, transport has treated rail freight as an afterthought. This week has been no different. Despite all the political machinations hogging the headlines,…
The current UK Government has made a habit of embarrassing about-turns on policy, but this week the left-wing first-term Labour Party reached new heights of…
HS2 enters 2026 in a curious position. Britain’s self-proclaimed largest infrastructure project is simultaneously at peak production and undergoing what ministers describe as a “reset”.…
Britain’s economy continues to shrink, and employment figures disappoint. Sometimes, the only growth seems to be inflation figures. Rail freight is once again shouldering more…
Britain’s rail freight sector runs on a strategy that is almost a decade old. The Department for Transport’s Rail freight transport strategy, published in 2016,…
Next week’s Budget offers the government a genuine opportunity to chart a long-term course for freight. Whether it chooses to take that opportunity is quite…