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19 June 2023, Birmingham Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), was named Rail Freight Company of the Year at this years Multimodal Awards recognising excellence and best practise across the UK logistics industry. This is the eighth time that Freightliner has won this award and a fantastic achievement, especially as we were ...
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A new Freightliner service made its inaugural journey from Southampton to Crewe using entirely Ocean Network Express (ONE) funded GD+ green biofuel. The train continued its journey to Freightliner Coatbridge terminal, Scotland, using an electric locomotive, making this one of the greenest rail freight routes in UK rail.
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Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), was named Rail Freight Operator of the Year at last weeks Multimodal Awards recognising excellence and best practise across the UK logistics industry. This is the fifth time that Freightliner has won this award since the category was introduced in 2016.
(Permalink) Freightliner Multimodal Awards Rail Freight Operator of Year  Balshaw Lane Junction: Freightliner 70011 passes Balshaw Lane in the winter sunshine with the Hardendale to Tunstead stone train on 29 December 2020.  Bay Horse: 0715hrs, 9th June 2020, and the Story contractor's staff haven't yet arrived at the works site at Forton cutting. Freightliner 90041 and 90045 power north with a Crewe to Coatbridge intermodal service ... |
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A Freightliner EMD Class 66 locomotive has been modified to test the diesel engines ability to use biomethane or hydrogen dual-fuelling as a potential path to lowering carbon emissions from rail freight.
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Freightliner embarks on further operational trials of Gd45 powered by Shell GTL Fuel, a new cleaner, low carbon fuel supplied by Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), as part of its ongoing commitment to clean air and carbon reduction Tuesday 16th November 2021, London: Freightliner, a subsidiary ...
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Freightliner is voted Rail Freight Operator of the Year at the 2021 Multimodal Awards. Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), was named 'Rail Freight Operator of the Year' at last week's Multimodal Awards recognising excellence and best practise across the UK logistics industry.
(Permalink) Freightliner Rail Freight Operator of the Year  Arbroath ^The Dens^ Siding: Freightliner 66609 on a northbound Oxwellmains-Aberdeen cement train passing Arbroath on 2 October.  Abington: A Freightliner class 90 with a container train northbound between Crawford and Abington in the summer of 2006.  Alnmouth: Freightliner 66617 brings a southbound cement train through Alnmouth station in May 2004. |
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The first of Freightliner's new FFA-G wagons arrive in the UK. On 18th September, the first 40 of 230 new Freightliner FFA-G wagons arrived in the UK from Poland, representing the next generation of energy efficient, 40ft intermodal wagons. The remaining wagons are due to be delivered by November 2021.
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Freightliner has launched a new daily intermodal rail service from the Port of Felixstowe to the recently resurrected Tinsley Marshalling Yard, located between Sheffield and Rotherham.
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Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), in partnership with a consortium of specialist suppliers, has been successful in securing government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Class 66 locomotive.
The project will investigate the ability to substitute diesel with both hydrogen and biogas on the Class-66 locomotive which hauls over 80% of freight on the UK rail network and, in doing so, reduce carbon emissions on one of the industry's most challenging two-stroke locomotives. This will be achieved by retrofitting the Class 66 with Clean Air Powers precision injection technology, creating a Class 66 that can run on a combination of diesel, biogas and hydrogen. (Permalink) Class 66 Dual fuel Freightliner |
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Since trialling the heaviest aggregates train ever to have operated on the West Coast Mainline, from Tarmac's Tunstead Quarry to London earlier this year, Freightliner has continued to build upon its position as the leading operator of the heaviest jumbo trains on the Network.
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A tragedy inspired Scotland's only woman freight train driver to get men talking about mental health.
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Freightliner recently carried out a successful HVO (hydro-treated vegetable oil) fuel trial, when locomotive 70017 ran 7A91 Merehead to Acton (106 miles), hauling 59205 and 66524 as well as 33JNA loaded wagons. The train weight was 4000 tons, making this the longest and heaviest train on the UK network with a single loco using 100% sustainable fuel.
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Twenty years on, the Selby rail crash remains the UK's worst rail disaster of the 21st Century.
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LNER, together with Network Rail and Freightliner, is hosting a virtual memorial to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of the Great Heck train crash. This will be held from 10am on Sunday 28 February 2021.
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Few of us need telling that whisky is central to Scotland's exporting economy. What is less well known is that the rail industry has been playing a crucial role in the transport of whisky to foreign markets for more than 50 years.
One of the key positive outcomes of the otherwise infamous Beeching Report of 1963 was the development of a network of container terminals linked by fast, fixed-formation 'Freightliner' trains. Terminals in Glasgow, and later Coatbridge, became central to the whisky supply chain and in 2017 Coatbridge Freightliner still provides those crucial daily links to Britain's big four Deep Sea ports at Felixstowe, Southampton, London Gateway and Liverpool. Indeed, between 20 and 25 per cent of Scottish exports are carried on these trains. (Permalink) David Spaven Freightliner Whisky  Elgin East: A typical scene at Elgin freight depot in the late 1970s - a BR lorry waits to offload a container of whisky casks for Central Scotland while a Class 24 draws a rake of conventional and container wago ...  Elgin East: 66097 runs round its train of empty whisky tanks and containers at Elgin Yard on 13th September. The platform side of the former GNoSR passenger station has seen better days, but the main building is ... |
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The official unveiling ceremony took place today at the Freightliner Maintenance Ltd depot in Leeds in celebration of the new contract between Drax Power Ltd (Drax Power) and FHH for rail delivery of coal and limestone into Drax Power Station. Following a previous five year contract which helped FHH to establish itself in the coal business, this new contract represents a significant step, extending the duration and volume of trading between the two companies.
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