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£14M Rail Freight Boost for Peak District Site 135 May 2019 NEWS www.rfg.org.uk Helping ensure a sustainable future for UK rail freight £14m rail freight boost for Peak District site Disused council tip transformed into 430m of P.3 railway siding to benefit local quarries Teesport Express A new £14m railway extension has been really pleased that this upgrade will give gets underway to unveiled in Buxton that will provide a both a boost to the UK economy through service growing significant boost to the local aggregate greater productivity, as well as improving Scottish demand and wider construction sector. the local environment by reducing the reli- ance on lorries which cause congestion and Network Rail has transformed the disused produce harmful CO2 emissions.” council tip into 430 metres of new railway sidings to allow longer freight trains to bet- Andrew Sumner, head of industrial sales ter serve local quarries. from DB Cargo UK, said: “This is a signifi- cant development for rail freight in the Peak The Great North Rail Project investment District and will go a long way to relieve means DB Cargo and Freightliner can now some of the constraints we face in the area. increase the number of wagons on each This is another example of a successful train from 18 to 26. This allows up to 2,500 partnership approach between operators, P.3 tonnes of stone to be transported during industry bodies and stakeholders working RFG each load. together to develop and innovate the indus- Annual Handbook try - we are stronger together.” now available! Each freight train takes around 76 lorries off the local road network and every tonne of Adam Cunliffe, chief commercial officer at freight carried by rail cuts carbon emissions Freightliner, added: “The extended sidings by a huge 76%. at Buxton mean that we can run longer trains Martin Frobisher, MD of Network Rail’s Lon- don Northern Western route, said: “We’re Continued on page 2. RFG members tackle the future P.9 of rail freight at Spring Group Meeting DC Rail signs new Article on page 6. Total Aggregates deal RFG AWARDS 2019: GET YOUR ENTRIES P.23 30% rise in IN NOW! P5. Dublin-Mayo rail traffic RFG News May 2019 Executive Director’s Update: Maggie Simpson email your comments to [email protected] complexity, because it will only work if all parts of the in- Spring meeting dustry collaborate. highlights Nigel Jones, speaking on behalf of the Freight Techni- cal Group which he chairs, described the roll out as a importance whole system change for the railways, affecting not just the equipment but the rules and procedures, legal frame- of working works, staff responsibilities and skills and training needs. Nigel also highlighted some of the complex areas which together are yet to be fully understood, including braking curves for By Maggie Simpson, Director General, freight trains, and the human factors issues during the roll Rail Freight Group (RFG) out of ERTMS across Network Rail’s routes. Yet despite this, the group has been making good pro- Collaboration was the name of the game at our Spring gress through collaborating together, being open about Group Meeting, kindly hosted by Siemens at their each business’ challenges and working together to give Chippenham facility. Siemens are the lead contractor a collective voice to Government and key stakeholders. for the freight fleet fitment programme for ERTMS and Digital Railway and are well underway with the devel- Across the railways right now there is much talk of opment project for ‘first in class’ fitment of equipment increasing collaboration, simplifying accountabilities and to freight locomotives. ‘putting the customer (or indeed passenger!) first. These Digital technology, such as ERTMS, is critical to the are key areas for the Williams Rail Review, who’s recent future success of UK rail, both for the specific benefits it is Call for Evidence set out their assessment of the chal- expected to deliver in cost saving and network efficiency, lenges for the industry (you can read our response be- but also as an enabler for a wider uptake of innovation low). Many describe how collaboration cannot happen and technology, much needed in train operations and net- within the current structure of the industry, and make the work management. case for more integration and alliancing. Yet the experi- ence of the freight fitment programme is showing that it is The freight sector has not been shy of investing in tech- possible to collaborate in developments even within the nology in recent years, with upgraded systems, new tools current structures, and in the part of the industry which is such as the mobile consisting application recently rolled most openly competitive. out, and better data management and download from lo- comotives. New wagons are increasingly enabled with As the woes of the franchising sector are written large sensors, enabling better fleet management and mainte- across the headlines, it is indeed reassuring to know that nance, and some FOCs have also introduced enhanced rail freight is working together to make sure our systems customer information systems. These measures are vital and equipment are fit for the future.• for each business, but ERTMS brings a new dimension of Continued from front page. with more wagons, helping deliver an increase in the move- ment of freight by rail in the area and all the associated eco- nomic and environmental benefits that brings.” Chris Swan, head of rail at Tarmac, said: “With capacity chal- lenges across the rail network, these new sidings at Buxton will enable Tarmac to transport higher volumes of material on bigger trains, supporting the efficient and sustainable deliv- ery of a growing number of major infrastructure and develop- ment projects across the country.” Dai Larner, executive director at High Peak Borough Council, said: “We’re delighted with this major investment project in our local rail infrastructure. It brings this land back into pro- ductive use and delivers real – and very welcome - benefits for residents, the quarrying industry and everyone using our road network by reducing the amount of freight being trans- ported by lorry.” and increasingly viable mode of transport.” Paul McMahon, MD of Freight and National Passenger Op- erators at Network Rail, said: “At Network Rail we want to A car and household waste had to be safely disposed of dur- work with our current and potential customers to grow the ing regeneration of the former council tip. The area has now amount of freight we’re transporting by rail. It’s through inno- been landscaped to sympathetically blend into the surround- vative schemes like this that we’re making rail an attractive ing countryside. Labour MP for High Peak Ruth George offi- cially opened the new railway on Monday 29 April. • 2 RFG News May 2019 News in brief • GB Railfreight (GBRf) has agreed a contract extension with British Gypsum, which will see the partnership contin- ue through to December 2021. The extension will mean not only the contin- uation of GBRf’s existing service from Southampton to British Gypsum’s plas- terboard plant in Roberts- bridge but the provision of further terminal servic- es at Robertsbridge and additional rail haulage flow from AV Dawson in Teeside to British Gyp- sum’s plant at East Leake, PD Ports celebrates second Scotland Loughborough. connection with ‘Teesport Express’ • Paul Plummer, Rail De- livery Group CEO, has PD Ports has celebrated cost-saving benefits. We’d like as well.” confirmed his intention the success of its second to thank our partners who have to retire this autumn. The daily rail freight connection worked with us to make this Mike Hogg, RFG’s north of search for his successor to Scotland, with an official service possible, and we look England representative, at- has already begun and loco-naming ceremony at forward to a strong, ongoing tended the ceremony and later he will stay in his role until Teesport. relationship. These partner- paid tribute to the professional- this person is identified. ships have laid the foundation ism and evident enthusiasm of The event, on 25 April, was for us to integrate our services, those concerned in establish- • Stagecoach Group attended by senior represent- allowing us to offer faster and ing this second daily Scottish is understood to have atives from the service’s key more frequent transit between service. launched legal action partners including DB Cargo, Scotland and the continent to against the DfT after it was ECS Containers and P&O Fer- benefit our customers.” He said: “There is clearly pent disqualified from three rail ries and saw the unveiling of up demand for further rail franchise bids including the new co-branded PD Ports Hans-Georg Werner, CEO routes. The gauge clearance East Midlands. and DB Cargo loco, which was from DB Cargo UK said: “We project for the mainline from officially named the ‘Teesport are delighted to celebrate such Teesside to the south is a real • Dame Judith Hackitt and Express’. a significant milestone along- priority to this end. It has been Stephen Hughes have side our partners PD Ports. We good to see the Tees Valley been appointed to the Frans Calje, CEO at PD Ports, originally started out running Combined Authority partnering board of HS2 as non-ex- said: “Continuing to expand just one service for PD Ports with funds from the Strategic ecutive directors. and strengthen our rail freight to our terminals at Mossend Freight Network initiative to offering is important to us as and Grangemouth in Scotland, find the means of clearing this • VolkerRail has achieved rail provides vital UK connec- however demand was such future intermodal route.” • two RoSPA awards: Ro- tions for our customers and that in October last year we SPA Gold Medal and a delivers environmental and agreed to run a second service RoSPA Gold Medal: Fleet Safety.
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