A research project by the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) means freight train operators in Great Britain can safely haul more goods wagons per train than current practices allow, improving their environmental impact and …
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How US railroad workers reached breaking point – fewer workers (Slate)
What the average American knows about freight railroads is likely limited to what he sees through his windshield while waiting for a train to pass—and waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Grade crossings are a fixture …
Continue readingHow Genoa will ease congestion on its cramped rail network (MediaRail)
The Terzo Valico project is a new high-speed line that strengthens the connections of the Genoese port complex with the main railway lines of northern Italy and Europe. It is complemented within the city of Genoa by …
Continue readingEfficiency & the decline of American freight railroads (HomeSignal)
Over the last two years, the crisis of America’s supply chains, the push to expand public passenger rail service, and the urgency of the climate crisis have put America’s freight railroads in the limelight. These …
Continue readingCombined rail-road-terminal transport data exchange established (RailwayGazette)
Hupac, Kombiverkehr, Hoyer, Paneuropa, Lokomotion and Kombiterminal Ludwigshafen have formed DX Intermodal to develop a data hub connecting combined transport companies including rail and road operators and terminal managers. The system is based on the …
Continue readingFinland rejects European Commission regauging proposal (RailwayGazette)
Finland’s Minister of Transport & Communications Timo Harakka has described as ‘unreasonable’ the European Commission’s proposal to require the use of 1 435 mm gauge throughout the TEN-T rail network, arguing that Finland should be regarded …
Continue readingDfT to identify multi-modal National Freight Network (NewCivilEng)
The Department for Transport (DfT) will identify a National Freight Network (NFN) across road, rail, maritime, aviation, inland waterway and warehouse infrastructure, with a long-term goal of removing barriers to allow a seamless flow of …
Continue readingUS railroad crisis threatens supply-chain chaos, chicken cannablism (Wired)
Federal regulators and the White House have been scrambling to prevent poor service and a possible strike from jamming up a vital but often overlooked network. EARLY THIS SUMMER, farmers worried that millions of chickens in …
Continue readingGlasgow city centre freight route safeguarded, w/ Crossrail potential (RailFreight)
Network Rail has committed to renovating a freight route through the centre of Glasgow. The infrastructure agency is to invest in a programme of improvement works set to begin on a bridge that’s key to …
Continue readingRaising roof container designed to switch from road to rail (RailwayGazette)
A curtain-sided container with a raising roof which is designed to transport double-stacked palletised products by rail has been unveiled by Nestlé UK & Ireland. The company said the railway network’s height constraints compared to …
Continue readingInland waterway competitiveness report: US & Int’l (EnoTrans)
The 12,000-mile inland waterways network in the United States is a vital trade corridor serving energy, agriculture, and other freight shipments internally and for export. Major global events like the war in Ukraine and the …
Continue readingChallenges to growing UK intermodal (RailFreight)
Maritime Transport has grown from a road-based logistics operation to be one of the biggest intermodal rail operators in the UK in just twenty years. Already moving around 5,500 containers every week, the company has …
Continue readingRail Freight Group sees bi-mode locos as a revolution (RailFreight)
Regardless of fuel supply, full line speed freight is the dawn of a new era for British Rail freight. Maggie Simpson, the director general of the Rail Freight Group, has welcomed the recently announced arrival …
Continue readingCharting the Course for Early Truck Electrification (RMI)
Using Real-World Truck Telematics Data to Identify Electrifiable Trucks, Inform Charging Infrastructure Investments, and Explore Emissions Reductions. Trucks in the United States produce 25 percent of transportation greenhouse gas emissions even though they only make …
Continue readingNetwork Rail studies major station logistics capacity (RailFreight)
A Network Rail report casts new light on the capacity of major passenger stations to handle light logistics. A broader return to handling less than wagon load and parcels traffic has been on the agenda …
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