Europe’s rail freight sector is no longer short of digital tools. What the contributors to this report make clear is that the harder work – regulatory alignment, operational coherence, cross-border coordination – is only now beginning.
How Lithuania is rebuilding its railways for both civilian trade and NATO military mobility on the EU’s eastern flank.
Phil Smart, Regional Policy Manager at the Rail Freight Group, argues that decarbonising heavy rail freight depends on extending overhead electrification – and explains why the new Class 99, hydrogen and battery power are no substitute for the wires.
Britain’s railway does not lack innovation, it lacks adoption. GBRX’s Toufic Machnouk on what has to change.
Simon Fletcher, founder of Fletch Rail Advisory, examines the strategic choices behind rail traction energy, weighing electrification, battery and hydrogen solutions and the challenges of scaling them across networks.