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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Category: Freight
Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’
David Ratcliffe reviews the fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’ workings.
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Hugh Le Fleming
Robert Humm reviews the life and work of a notable locomotive engineer, writer and artist. Despite the lack of any family technical background, and in
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The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength
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
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
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
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What’s in the Shops: Worth their salt – Dapol fleet wagons
Dapol has released two brilliant models of private-owner salt wagons on its new O-gauge 9ft RCH underframe. Salt from the Cheshire and Staffordshire area was
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Freightliner plans new Ipswich depot – and more Class 90s?
Freightliner has submitted a planning application to build a new locomotive and wagon maintenance facility at its Ipswich Yard site. The depot will feature a
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Stobart Tilbury trial success – daily service now planned
EDDIE Stobart Logistics (ESL) confirmed in late-January its trial of a new intermodal railfreight flow from the Port of Tilbury to Daventry in Northamptonshire had
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Maritime takes over DB terminals – and wins East Midlands Gateway contract
Multi-modal logistics company Maritime Transport is taking over the operation of two DB Cargo UK intermodal terminals, and has signed a 25-year lease deal to
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