The November 2023 issue of RFG News, the Rail Freight Group’s regular newsletter, has now been published. Download your copy here. Inside, we welcome our three new Board members Sabrina Meksaoui, Alex Kirk and Lee Armstrong. We would also like to sincerely thank our outgoing Board members Mike Garratt, Liam Day and Andrew Harston. In […]
The Rail Freight Group (RFG) is delighted to welcome its new Board members, each voted in during its AGM and Autumn Meeting on 8 November 2023. The newly appointed Board members are: Sabrina Meksaoui, Chief Revenue Officer, Everysens (pictured above) Alex Kirk, Head of Infrastructure & HS2, GB Railfreight (GBRf) Lee Armstrong, Group Head of […]
The Rail Freight Group (RFG) is delighted to open its 2024 cross–member rail freight mentoring programme, helping its members develop their skills and industry knowledge. Making the announcement at RFG’s AGM and Autumn members’ meeting on 8 November, programme lead Deanne Logan from Mulberry & Mint said: “The Cross-Member Mentoring Programme gives anyone working in […]
In the first of a series of articles on rail freight, Lydia Cullimore, Director at Burges Salmon, looks at how the sector can achieve its full potential. A spotlight is increasingly being shone on rail freight in the UK and for good reason. The reduction in carbon emissions that results from increased modal shift to […]
Rail Freight Group today condemned Government’s decision to cancel HS2 construction north of Birmingham describing it as the worst possible outcome for rail freight. Under Government plans announced today, the new HS2 line will be truncated at Birmingham, with the route to Crewe and then Manchester cancelled. However, HS2 trains are still expected to run […]
The September 2023 issue of RFG News, the Rail Freight Group’s regular newsletter, has now been published. Click here for the PDF version. This month was Awards month for RFG and we were delighted to announce Solent Stevedores as the well-deserved winners of our coveted Business of the Year Award. The Awards evening itself was […]
Solent Stevedores has been named Business of the Year at the annual Rail Freight Group (RFG) Awards, held on 7 September at Shendish Manor Hotel, Apsley. The RFG Awards recognise the hard work and achievements of companies, teams and individuals working right across the UK’s rail freight sector. The judges were impressed by the company’s […]
So, the question is what’s focus stacking and why would you want to use this technique? Photography focus stacking is a technique used within many genres of photography mostly associated with landscape and macro photography to increase the depth of field in an image, allowing the photographer to capture sharp images from foreground to background. […]
More than 3,900 people across the UK have now been trained on Victa Railfreight’s Rail Safety Awareness (RSA) ground-breaking course. The candidates all have a job role which includes the possibility of them working in the vicinity of railway lines in freight yards or maintenance facilities. They come from a variety of businesses and sectors […]
The final FEA-G intermodal wagons have now arrived in the UK, marking the successful delivery of a total 100 new intermodal wagons as well as 50 new JNA-X Box Wagons in a partnership between Porterbrook, GB Railfreight (GBRf) and Greenbrier. The wagons, which are now on lease to GBRf, signify an increase in rail freight […]
