Major improvements to an historic railway viaduct in the Peak District are complete, securing its future for freight trains serving four major quarries in Derbyshire. Between 29 August and 7 September teams from Network Rail and its contractor AmcoGiffen strengthened a 160-year-old 15-arch structure on the Great Rocks freight line near Chapel-en-le-Frith. It’s one of […]
Category: Rail freight
RIA report calls for improved support for UK SME rail exporters
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has published a new Insights Report on how to improve support for UK SME rail exporters. The analysis sets out a series of recommendations for accelerating exports from the UK to countries around the world taken from an earlier SME Exports Workshop 2025 in which UK companies, along with RIA’s […]
Agreement between South Eastern Railway and heritage line will work towards re-introduction of freight trains
A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the South Eastern Railway (SER) and the East Kent Railway (EKR), a heritage line, sharing redundant railway assets from the mainline railway, facilities and volunteer time – and working towards re-establishing freight trains on the EKR for the first time since 1987. At a short ceremony at […]