Tag: Rail Transport

Royal Mail eyes return to rail for bulk traffic

Posted by | Oct 20, 2003 | |

The UK’s Royal Mail wants to use rail for long-distance bulk mail, but believes the sector cannot provide the consistency needed for time-sensitive shipments.
The decision in June to move time-sensitive mail to road under a new hub-and-spoke system by the spring, saving GPB90m (EUR127.8m), was a “complete no-brainer”, Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton told a government transport committee inquiry. Quality of service, cost and, most importantly, consistency were all behind the decision, he said. Paul Bateson, Royal Mail’s director of logistics, accepted the fact that infrastructure provider Network Rail gave high priority to mail trains, but he said when there was a problem, rail could not recover quickly enough.

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Asda to take load off road congestion in rail switch

Posted by | Oct 16, 2003 | |

Supermarket giant Asda plans to supply its four Aberdeen branches by rail – saving more than 800,000 lorry miles a year.

The proposal – at an advanced stage – was revealed last night at a meeting of the Commons Transport Committee, which is conducting an inquiry into the future of the railways.

Head of logistics Paul Wright said later that initially a daily service from the Grangemouth distribution centre – itself supplied by rail from the English Midlands – would keep stores at Middleton Park, Portlethen, Bridge of Dee and Dyce supplied with “ambient goods”, which do not require temperature-controlled transport.

The service will start in January.

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French look into rail link

Posted by | Jul 14, 2003 | |

A feasibility study into a high speed rail freight link between Paris CDG and Liege airports will be completed within the next two months.
Liege airport’s general manager, Luc Partoune, said one TGV Cargo train carrying mail, express and small parcels could cover the distance in 2 1/2 hours and offer capacity equivalent to a B747 freighter.
No date has been set for the launch of the TGV Cargo, a crucial issue being what timetabling provision SNCF and SNCB could offer the service.
This was one of the main sticking points in an aborted attempt by DHL to set up a high-speed rail link between Paris and Brussels over a decade ago

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'London needs rail freight interchanges'

Posted by | Jul 14, 2003 | |

Rail freight interchanges (RFIs) still have a future in London, despite last year’s rejection of the London Internal Freight Exchange (Life) proposal.
The SRA is producing a policy framework to promote RFIs and reassure developers who may be wary after planners killed off the west London Life project in August.
Speaking at the Life after Life conference last week, Jeff Miles, the SRA’s head of freight market development, emphasised that the decision “did not set a precedent”.
The government was behind rail freight, and appropriate projects could still go ahead, he said.

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