Modern Railways
September 2008
Rolling Stock Plan explained -
where the 1,300 new coaches will go
Long Marston - rolling stock storage and more
Advice on cheap ticket release
26 August 2008
TheTrainline.com has launched a new service, 'Ticket Alert', that notifies customers, by email, when advanced tickets become available, enabling them to make significant cost savings.
Ticket Alert enables customers to sign up for email alerts, via TheTrainline.com website, which notify them as soon as advance tickets become available for specific journeys, which the customer pre-selects...
Hull Trains secures first tranche of Adelantes
15 August 2008
LaFarge has introduced to traffic its new fleet of 48 bogie cement wagons, ordered in 2006 via its leasing partner VTG Rail UK (September 2006, p12). Constructed by Feldbinder in Germany, the wagons form part of a £15million rail expansion programme by the firm to supply customers in the Southeast. The prime role of the wagons will be carrying cement in 22-wagon loads from Hope Works in Derbyshire to depots in the Southeast, including the new facility at West Thurrock and an existing terminal at Theale. Increased movements of cement to the Southeast follow the end of clinker production by LaFarge at its Northfleet Works in Kent earlier this year.
The company says that it will be able to replace 50,000 long-distance lorry journeys in the UK by using its network of 10 rail-connected depots to provide Œshort-hop¹ road journeys to final destinations.
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