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Britain needs a new rail freight strategy

  • Simon Walton
  • November 28, 2025
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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,…

  • Electricity Costs
  • Friday Freight Forum
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  • Rail News
  • Simon Walton

Sparks fly. Energy costs are costing rail freight

  • Simon Walton
  • November 14, 2025
  • 0

It is a truth, uncomfortably acknowledged, that any chief executive with a grasp of rail freight economics, must be in want of a lower electricity…

  • David Lammy
  • Freight Forum
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  • Heidi Alexander
  • In Depth
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  • Railways Bill
  • UK

UK Railways Bill: Freight 2 Passenger 239

  • Simon Walton
  • November 7, 2025
  • 0

Great British Railways [sic] moved a step closer this week. British politics may have been preoccupied by a ministerial scandal or two, but the decisive…

  • driver shortage
  • Friday Freight Forum
  • HGV
  • In Depth
  • Rail News
  • Road and rail

Can rail freight rescue road haulage?

  • Simon Walton
  • October 31, 2025
  • 0

In the UK, even in this constitutional monarchy, the prospect of becoming “King of the Road” seems to have taken a decidedly republican turn. “Lorry…

  • cyber attack
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  • Friday Freight Forum
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  • LNER
  • London North Eastern Railway
  • Rail News
  • Technology

UK databreach is a fright for rail freight

  • Simon Walton
  • October 24, 2025
  • 0

The cyber attack that breached customer data at London North Eastern Railway (LNER) should send a shiver down the spines of everyone in the rail…

  • aggregates
  • Friday Freight Forum
  • Great Britain
  • growth
  • In Depth
  • Intermodal
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  • Simon Walton
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  • UK

UK rail freight to buck economic trend?

  • Simon Walton
  • October 10, 2025
  • 0

What would it take for Britain’s rail freight industry to step up to cover the UK Government’s ambition to increase rail freight by 75 per…

  • British Transport Police
  • Friday Freight Forum
  • In Depth
  • protest
  • Rail freight
  • Rail News
  • UK

When the troubles of the world descend on the railways

  • Simon Walton
  • October 3, 2025
  • 0

British Transport Police (BTP), the specialist force that protects the network in England, Scotland and Wales, issued an urgent warning on Thursday night. The warning…

  • CMA CGM
  • consolidation
  • Freightliner
  • Friday Freight Forum
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  • Medlog
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Why consolidation is good for UK economy and rail freight

  • Simon Walton
  • September 26, 2025
  • 0

This week’s sale of Freightliner’s intermodal business to CMA CGM, alongside MEDLOG’s recent acquisition of Maritime Transport, has sparked debate in the logistics sector. At…

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  • Highland Main Line
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  • Scotland
  • UK

Dualling: The A9 or Highland Mainline?

  • Simon Walton
  • September 5, 2025
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Scotland wants to see a radical modal shift to rail freight. Yet, there’s a blocked artery that cries out for investment to help make that…

  • A9
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  • In Depth
  • Rail freight
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  • Scotland
  • UK

Dualling: The A9 or Highland Mainline?

  • Simon Walton
  • September 5, 2025
  • 0

Scotland wants to see a radical modal shift to rail freight. Yet, there’s a blocked artery that cries out for investment to help make that…

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