FRIDAY FREIGHT PATH
Why wagonload is consigned to history
The popular perception of the goods train has as much contact with reality as Thomas the Tank Engine. This, though, is not our fault. In…
Pick-up Germany versus point-to-point UK
UK: Wagonload? What wagonload?
Shifting policies in Mainland Europe could see the wagonload freight market go the same way as the UK. It has been decades since the traditional…
Wagons ho! Intermodal no!
US rail figures: conventional traffic keeps growing, intermodal drops
US rail freight volumes delivered a split performance last month (June). Conventional wagonload traffic posted a fourth straight month of growth. However, intermodal (which in…
Rail freight volumes on Rhine-Alpine Corridor declined by 3.2%
Traffic volumes on the Rhine-Alpine rail freight corridor (RFC) decreased by 3.2 per cent in 2017, compared to the previous year. On the contrary, overall…