Date: 15/03/2022

The traditional view of rail freight is of long trains carrying heavy bulk commodities - coal, stone, minerals. As some of these traffics have declined, a consequence of wider government policies such as the switch to less carbon-intensive sources of energy, containerised freight has come to dominate.

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Investment in infrastructure key to growing rail freight traffic - Martin Bignell

The Scotsman

The traditional view of rail freight is of long trains carrying heavy bulk commodities “ coal, stone, minerals. As some of these traffics have declined, a consequence of wider government policies such as the switch to less carbon-intensive sources of energy, containerised freight has come to dominate.

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