At least 50 people have been killed after a train derailed overnight in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s southeast Tanganyika province.
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Category: Freight
GBRf names loco Made in Sheffield
GB Railfreight has reliveried Class 66 No. 66747 in branding to mark its growing relationship with Yorkshire-based haulier and logistics company Newell & Wright. The
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Yorkshire BLS tour raises £15k for charity
THE Branch Line Society and West Coast Railways operated the ‘Luca Pezzulo Express’ on July 20, visiting rare freight lines around Yorkshire. Highlights included a
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Staff charter takes GBRf ‘50s’ back to Scotland
July 6 saw Class 50s Nos. 50007 Hercules and 50049 Defiance work a GB Railfreight staff charter from Motherwell to Scarborough via the East Coast
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DCRail expands with new bulk material flows
DCRail started a new service on June 24 which is conveying used rail ballast from Westbury to Southampton for recycling by L&S Waste. The new
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Test run paves way for Heathrow construction railhead
Thorney Hill aggregates terminal, on the Colnbrook branch, saw its first train for six years on June 21. GB Railfreight (GBRf) operated a test train
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GWR sheds make way for Old Oak Common hub
Demolition of former Great Western Railway sheds at Old Oak Common, in west London, was completed in July.
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BLS tour brings Class 31 back to the main line
JUNE 9 saw a Class 31 return to main line action after a gap of several months. Nemesis Rail’s No. 31128 Charybdis, currently the only Brush
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Freightliner ‘66’ in the pink
FREIGHTLINER’S No. 66587 became one of the most instantly recognisable locomotives on the network in June after it gained a striking new magenta and white livery.
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Hope Works celebrates 90 years
MORE than 2,000 people visited Breedon Group’s cement works at Hope, in Derbyshire, as the UK’s largest cement plant celebrated 90 years of operation. June
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