Rail Freight

Rail freight company CSX has donated $75,000 to the American Red Cross, as employees prepare the Gulf Coast's rail network for Tropical Storm Isaac. The city's floodgates have now been closed, cutting off rail access to New Orleans. President Obama has...

BNSF has announced plans to invest around $61 million on maintenance and rail capacity improvement projects in Iowa this year. BNSF will continue its work on the Burlington Bridge by replacing existing through-truss spans and also begin work to replace...

Andy Milne spells out four reasons why the rail industry and Britain needs High Speed Two. As the surge of national optimism reached its crescendo at the London Olympics the great and the not so good were lining up to oppose the plan to build a high-speed railway between London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Leave [...]

Crossrail has taken another step towards the creation of a new 1,500 acre RSPB nature reserve with the completion of a new 180 metre jetty at Wallasea Island in Essex.  The jetty will receive in the order of 4.5...

Just before the 23 June this year, the BBC issued the following dire warnings: “Motorists are being warned about road closures and possible delays ahead of a rock concert in Hertfordshire. Up to 80,000 people are expected to attend the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ concert at Knebworth Park. Police said there will be a number [...]

Indian Railways has posted a 27.38 per cent increase in freight revenue earnings for the first quarter of 2012-13. Railways earned Rs 210.27 billion from commodity-wise freight traffic during April-June 2012, compared to Rs 165.07 billion during the same period...

Eurotunnel's rail freight arm has landed an eight-year contract to manage operations and maintenance of the Port of Bordeaux Authority's railway infrastructure. Europorte will be responsible for more than 20km of track and 39 sidings at terminals in Bassens and...

Centennial Coal has almost doubled its haulage capacity with the introduction of a new fleet of C44ACi locomotives. On June 27, seven 4,400-horsepower CEY class units, which have been built by UGL, were presented to Centennial Coal and rail operator...

Rail accident investigators have carried out a preliminary examination after a freight train struck a boulder and derailed in Scotland during torrential rain. Freight train 6S45 derailed between Corrour and Tulloch station on the West Highland line just after 7pm...

Telford and Wrekin Council has appointed a new operator to run the town's ill-fated international railfreight park. German rail freight company DB Schenker Rail has been chosen to run the Telford site, which opened in June 2009. The company will pay...