Freight

Made of Stone: Tunstead Quarry, Derbyshire

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Sam Hewitt

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9th June 2019

Ben Jones visits one of the country’s most important locations – Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry in Derbyshire.
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£25million support for for Scottish rail freight industry

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Sam Hewitt

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9th June 2019

The Scottish Government has allocated £25million to support the country’s rail freight industry over the next five years.
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First Class 70 over Coalville branch

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Sam Hewitt

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1st June 2019

THE freight-only Coalville line in Leicestershire has seen the passage of its first Class 70. No. 70802 became the first of the class over the line on April 1 when it was used on a Westbury to Stud Farm working to collect ballast. Colas is understood to have just taken over this working for Network Rail…
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First Maritime Class 66s unveiled by DB Cargo

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Sam Hewitt

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30th May 2019

DB CARGO has signed a long-term agreement with Maritime Transport Ltd to run Maritime Intermodal, a new rail freight operation.
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BLS charity tour to explore Yorkshire freight lines with Colas and WCRC ’37s’

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Sam Hewitt

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30th May 2019

No fewer than four rarely visited freight installations in Yorkshire will be explored by the Branch Line Society on July 20.
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American freight locos rebuilt in Estonia

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Sam Hewitt

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29th May 2019

AMERICAN manufactured diesel locos, once used in the USA, are being completely rebuilt in Estonia for use there and also in Ukraine. Estonian state-owned rail freight company Operail inherited the former US Class 1-operated diesel locos which were imported during 2002/03 when the business was run by private company Baltic Rail Services – trading as…
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Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd May 2019

Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society runs rail tours around the busy rail-served complex of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks on selected summer weekends.
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The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength

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Sam Hewitt

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1st May 2019

The demolition of Immingham’s mechanical coaling plant last year has left Britain with just one example of these huge ferro-concrete monoliths.
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The Coaling Plant story: Towers of Strength – Part 1

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd April 2019

The demolition of Immingham’s mechanical coaling plant last year has left Britain with just one example of these huge ferro-concrete monoliths.
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Class 50s unveiled in GB Railfreight livery

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

THE close and growing relationship between the Class 50 Alliance and GB Railfreight has been underlined with the repainting of two of the former’s locomotives in GB colours as part of an on-going hire agreement. No. 50007 Hercules and 50049 Defiance were unveiled on March 20 at Eastleigh Works after the repaint by Arlington Fleet Services.…
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