Topic: British Steel

First time in over a decade Around-the-clock rail production at British Steel after major Turkish deal

British Steel is gearing up production after securing a Turkish order worth tens of millions of pounds. It will produce rails 24/7 for the first…
British steel belongs on rail Trains, trains and British Steel steels

Scunthorpe has become ground zero and a rail freight hero. Eighty trains roll from Immingham while rails flow for Long Marston. The newly nationalised steel…
It’s Scunthorpe ore bust Rail on port call for Immingham steel

UK rail freight operations are set for overdrive at Immingham. Landings of raw materials were made over last weekend. The operators say more coal and…
Making tracks from Scunthorpe Rails roll out from British Steel

The first train load of actual rail has emerged from the resurrected Scunthorpe steel works. Never mind talk of concerns over the production of virgin…
Wagons roll into Scunthorpe Rail freight rescues British Steel

A train load of coking coal has been delivered to British Steel Scunthorpe. The delivery kept the blast furnaces hot at the troubled plant on…
Steel appeal answered UK rail track manufacturer saved – for now

Virgin steel is needed to make rail tracks. For that, you need steel blast furnaces. On Saturday, Britain’s last remaining blast furnaces were saved by…
Steeled for closure British rail manufacturing plant to close?

Doubts hang over the future of Scunthorpe Steel Works, the UK’s only rail manufacturing centre. The blast furnaces there are loss-making, say the owners, and…
DB Cargo and British Steel to supply Belgium with brand new rail tracks

British Steel will supply Belgium with 100-metre-long rail tracks that Infrabel, the country’s infrastructure manager, will use to maintain and renew the rail network. The…
Steel to Sunderland vindicates port rail renaissance

British Steel has put its products on rails between their plant at Scunthorpe in Lincolnshire and the Wearside port of Sunderland in the north east…
DB Cargo UK and NR put HVO ’66 to work

After extensive static testing of a class 67 at Nottingham, DB Cargo UK have been given clearance by Network Rail to test a class 66…
Landslide at UK’s Scunthorpe results in rail freight diversions

A weekend landslip has closed lines through the Lincolnshire town of Scunthorpe, in the north east of England. Freight rolls on, including steel from the…
Welsh steel to Belgium by DB Cargo UK

A new international flow has been inaugurated by DB Cargo UK. Steel products are being transported from South Wales to Belgium via the Channel Tunnel.…