The future of oil-by-rail freight in Britain is in question. A large volume of traffic is in jeopardy. This follows the insolvency of the Prax…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Proclaimed by its owners as part of the best rail connected complex in the UK, the Port of Immingham is to be the site of…
A brand new intermodal freight flow has opened up a link between Britain’s biggest port by tonnage and Britain’s ambitious iPort Rail terminal in Doncaster.…
Improved rail capacity is needed to support the development of freeports in the north of England. This was the message to the UK minister of…
The latest UK service from Xi’an to the port of Immingham will become available for eastbound services. This was reported by Bahnoperator, the company providing…
An abandoned steel works site and a long disused rail terminal have finally been brought back to commercial life. GB Railfreight and a consortium of…
A new sea-rail combined transport line has been opened between Xi’an and the UK port of Immingham. The rail leg covers the westbound journey up…
Despite historical links going back a millennia, Britain has been slow to engage with the New Silk Road. Continental Europe has forged ahead, with dozens…