All DB Cargo UK articles – Page 2

  • DB Cargo operated a train of empty wagons from Acton Yard to the new Brett Aggregates terminal for loading with marine aggregates.
    Rail Business UK

    Newhaven freight revival as Marine station to close

    2020-07-01T05:00:00Z

    Source: DB Cargo UK UK: A formal proposal to close the redundant but still nominally open Newhaven Marine station has been approved by the Department for Transport following a public consultation. The line will remain open to serve a newly-developed freight terminal at the East Quay site, ...

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    DB Cargo UK opens London freight terminal

    2020-05-19T05:00:00Z

    UK: DB Cargo UK has officially opened its £7m freight terminal at Cricklewood in north London. This is intended to facilitate the movement of aggregates and spoil for major infrastructure developments such as High Speed 2 and the regeneration of Brent Cross, with the operator saying each ...

  • Hupac's weekly Warszawa – Wien service
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    World rail freight news round-up

    2020-05-18T05:00:00Z

    The Rwandan High Commissioner, DR Congo chargé d’affaires and a representative from South Sudan visited Kenya Railways’ Naivasha Inland Container Depot on May 12 to see its capabilities for handling freight in transit from the port of Mombasa to their countries. The 45 000 m2 facility has ...

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    DB Cargo UK launches service ‘despite economic downturn’

    2020-04-27T08:00:00Z

    UK: DB Cargo UK has begun a weekly service moving aggregates from Peak Forest in Derbyshire to Small Heath in Birmingham on behalf of CEMEX. ‘It’s great to be in a position to continue to offer our customers new opportunities in the current economic climate’, said ...

  • 001 Mark Smith - 66118 working 7M60, Isle of Grain to West Ruislip on Monday 20th June 2016
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    DB Cargo UK names new CEO

    2020-04-23T14:35:00Z

    UK: DB Cargo UK’s Chief Financial Officer, Andrea Rossi, will become Chief Executive on September 1, succeeding Hans-Georg Werner who announced in 2015 that he intended to retire when his current contract comes to an end this year. Rossi has worked for DB ...

  • The line serving Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire was reopened on April 20, after what Network Rail described as as ‘unprecedented 24/7 operation’ to repair flood damage.
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    ‘Unprecedented 24/7 operation’ repairs the flooded railway to Drax

    2020-04-20T15:41:00Z

    UK: The line serving Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire was reopened on April 20, after what Network Rail described as as ‘unprecedented 24/7 operation’ to repair flood damage. The branch on the former Hull & Barnsley Railway alignment between Hensall Junction and ...

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    Tarmac’s Birmingham asphalt plant receives first train

    2020-01-17T06:00:00Z

    UK: The first trains have delivered aggregate to an asphalt and aggregates facility which Tarmac is developing to support infrastructure projects in and around Birmingham. The site is to be entirely supplied by rail, with DB Cargo UK using converted coal hopper wagons to transport aggregates from ...