
Simon Walton
Head Of News And Digital Content at Yorkshire Living
Journalist and wanderer.
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1 week ago |
railtech.com | Simon Walton
Relocation to the UK’s Litchurch Lane factory in Derby could not come at a more opportune time for freight firm Yellow Rail. Consolidating their engineering and technical capacity for wagon and bogie overhaul at the works coincides with the huge celebrations for “Rail 200”, the nationwide acknowledgement of two centuries of the modern railway.
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worldcargonews.com | Simon Walton
Published on 28-05-2025 at 10:38 Medcem, part of a large Turkish industrial conglomerate, and Peel Ports Group have announced a GB£35 million investment to develop a new deep-water cement import terminal at Gladstone Dock, part of the Port of Liverpool. The project aims to boost UK construction supply chains while supporting the shift to low-carbon building materials.
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1 week ago |
railfreight.com | Simon Walton
Back to the future Published on 28-05-2025 at 09:39 Yellow Rail, the specialist rail engineering firm, is on the move to an iconic address in British rail manufacturing. The company has signed a long-term lease at the historic Litchurch Lane Works in Derby, currently in the ownership of Alstom. The relocation paves the way for expansion, innovation, and new job creation.
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1 week ago |
railtech.com | Simon Walton
This week marks three years since the Elizabeth Line opened to the public. It has been a transformative milestone. In that time, it has carried over 600 million passengers, fundamentally altering travel patterns across London and the southeast. Romford to Reading has become a breeze, making the £20 billion (€23.5bn) infrastructure project, launched in May 2022, worth every penny (as not many people have claimed).
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railfreight.com | Simon Walton
Rail Freight Future Published on 27-05-2025 at 13:30 Rail union ASLEF has launched a new campaign, “Rail Freight Future”, as the UK network begins the process of gradual nationalisation. The train drivers’ union says it wants to secure a brighter future for the sector, with greater ambition than existing government mandates.
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