Friday Freight Path
An opportunity for a UK Budget for freight
Next week’s Budget offers the UK government a genuine opportunity to chart a long-term course for freight. Whether it chooses to take that opportunity is…
UK industry warns
‘Don’t increase tax on rail-borne logistics’
Expected tax rises threaten the UK economy’s largest sector. Logistics UK has urged the Treasury to avoid further tax increases ahead of the Autumn Budget.…
disappointment for rail lobby
UK: A massive budget but taxing for trains
The UK Budget, delivered today (30 October), was a series of firsts. It was the first by the new government, elected just over three months…
Money for rail
Turkish rail gets new multibillion funding in 2025, on par with the road
The Turkish rail sector can count on a funding of 305 billion Turkish lira (8,2 billion euros) in 2025, which is significantly higher than in…
UK Budget leaves rail freight sector feeling unloved
Jeremy Hunt delivered a budget speech last week. It may be his last. it’s not because the rail freight sector has put out a contract…
Scotland commits to rail with 4.2 billion pound investment programme
The latest plan for Scotland’s Railway, published in collaboration with Network Rail, is a bid to create a safer, greener, and more reliable railway. The…
Freight and passengers at the heart of new five-year plan for UK railway
Network Rail has published its 44 billion pound (almost 52 billion euro) five-year plan for the period 2024-2029. The infrastructure agency plans for increased investment…
UK rail projects dodge the axe in Autumn Statement
This month’s UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, delivered a long and detailed budget last week. Although dubbed an “Autumn Statement”, the epic two-hour delivery found no…
UK mini budget on Friday or a fiscal non-event for rail freight sector
Rail freight has been feeling the pinch as much as any other sector in the UK economy. The direct costs of operations have been going…
German budget for rail ‘not enough to absorb rising construction costs’
The German federal budget for railways that was approved by the Federal Cabinet on Friday is “not even enough to absorb the increases in construction…
Rail industry unimpressed by UK Budget
A railway industry representative body has called the UK Autumn Budget and Spending Review a missed opportunity to unleash the potential of rail. Consequently, it…
Nine UK freight electrification schemes now please
They may not have been satisfied by the UK budget yesterday. The pressure group Railfuture has released a list of priority schemes. The campaigners believe…