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Network Rail publish £44 billion five-year plan
Network Rail’s five-year plan for the railway in England and Wales sees increased investment in tackling climate change and improving train performances.
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Cargo, Freight & Heavy-Haul
Rail freight transportation is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo/freight/goods, as opposed to human passengers. A rail freight/cargo/goods train is typically a group of wagons hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway network, between the shipper and the intended destination as part of the overall logistics chain and supply industry.
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DHL Global Forwarding and Etihad Rail sign strategic partnership agreement
The partnership will enable DHL Global Forwarding to use rail to conduct its main operations and distribute goods throughout the UAE.
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Q&A with Christine Vanoppen of Lineas: Delivering Sustainable Railways
For Global Railway Review’s exclusive Delivering Sustainable Railways feature series, Christine Vanoppen, Chair of the UIC Sustainability Platform and Reputation, Environment and Governance (REG) Manager for Lineas, discusses the importance of implementing ESG objectives correctly and the recent sustainability projects Lineas have been working on.
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The Federal Railroad Administration’s mission to make rail safer for all
In this exclusive article for Global Railway Review, Amit Bose, Administrator for the Federal Railroad Administration, discusses the importance of safety in rail, and the ways that the FRA is regulating rail in the U.S. to ensure continually improving levels of reliability, efficiency and safety.
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TX Logistik orders 40 Vectron locomotives from Siemens Mobility
The total order volume is around €300 million and the locomotives are planned to haul freight along the Rhine-Alpine Corridor.
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Sigrid Nikutta succeeds Clemens Först as Chair of Rail Freight Forward
Dr. Sigrid Nikutta, DB Board Member for Freight Transport and Head of DB Cargo AG, has taken over the Rail Freight Forward baton from Dr. Clemens Först who has been its Chair for five years.
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New rail cargo connection to Ukraine established
ÖBB Rail Cargo Group (RCG) is, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Railways, connecting Ukraine to its intermodal network with the new connection TransFER Vienna–Kyiv.
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Milestone reached in Alpha Trains and Alstom locomotives partnership
The 100th Traxx locomotive has now been offered as part of the Alpha Trains and Alstom full service package.
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GATX and Nevomo to jointly develop new MagRail capabilities for rail freight
MagRail Booster technology will be installed on GATX Rail Europe supplied freight wagons and tested on rail infrastructure equipped with the system's trackside devices.
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Freightliner opens its first Operational Training Academy
The Academy will prepare Freightliner’s freight train drivers for the in-cab digital signalling being introduced on the UK's East Coast Main Line.
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Funding programme opens to improve rail freight in Massachusetts
MassDOT has opened a new round of funding to seek applications from rail freight supported businesses for projects to expand or improve rail freight.
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Canadian Pacific Kansas City enters steelmaking coal supply chain agreement
The agreement reflects both CPKC and Teck's commitments to work together to reduce emissions and enhance supply chain reliability to supply the resources required for a low carbon future.
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How Switzerland wants to develop rail transport
Dr Peter Füglistaler, Director of the Federal Office of Transport (FOT), discusses the ways in which both passenger and rail freight transport in Switzerland must be developed, including the need to expand infrastructure and the potential for Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC).
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Digital freight train equipped with DAC completes test run
The aim of the test train's journey was to check the functionality of Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) in different situations and conditions and to identify possible weak points to improve on.
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ÖBB release Sustainability Report 2022
ÖBB have provided insights into numerous sustainability initiatives of the past year in the new Sustainability Report 2022.
