All Varamis Rail articles
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Rail Business UKVaramis Rail launches regular express light freight service
UK: Varamis Rail has launched a 160 km/h express freight service between Glasgow and Birmingham International using a converted electric multiple-unit. The service is targeted at express parcels and third-party delivery companies seeking next day delivery of consumer goods. Consignments arriving at the Glasgow hub by ...
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Rail Business UKEmissions reduction, rail freight and reliability R&D awarded First of a Kind funding
UK: Grants totalling more than £5m have been awarded to 24 projects under the First of a Kind 2022 funding competition organised by the Department for Transport and Innovate UK. ‘We are breathing life into ideas that will revolutionise our railways and make them greener than ...
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Rail Business UKVaramis Rail aims to be ‘newest and greenest’ train operator with freight EMU lease
UK: Varamis Rail has leased a Class 321 Swift Express Freight electric multiple-unit from Eversholt Rail to operate five nights a week between Birmingham and Glasgow for a major parcel carrier. Varamis Rail Managing Director Phil Read said the company’s aim was to be ‘the UK’s ...
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Rail Business UKVaramis Rail enters the express logistics fray
UK: An Anglo-Scottish express parcels and freight service is being planned by start-up Varamis Rail, which is seeking to revive a number of moribund or lightly used former mail and freight terminals across the network.
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Varamis Rail
Low-carbon logistics freight operator began operations on January 9 2023, having gained safety certification in March 2021. Services carry parcels and light goods service using off-lease passenger EMUs. An initial service links Glasgow (Mossend) and Birmingham International, to be extended later to London and eventually over the East Coast Main ...
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Rail Business UKSwift Express Freight demonstrator to be tested
UK: Leasing company Eversholt Rail and Ricardo have teamed up to develop an electric multiple-unit intended to demonstrate a cost-effective and low carbon way of transporting parcels. Dubbed Swift Express Freight, the demonstrator is to be converted at Wabtec’s Doncaster site from a surplus Class 321 ...