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NR possession overruns a disaster for rail freight
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| ‘Unforseen network closures on such as massive scale will destroy customer confidence in rail freight’. The failures of Network Rail in not reopening the network on time after engineering possessions has caused serious problems for rail freight over the last few days. Whereas the industry can generally make alternative arrangements or use diversion routes for times of planned closures, being given just a few hours warning |
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ORR and DfT must stand firm on Network Rail costs, outputs and efficiencies!
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| Reports today (15 December 2007) that the ORR is writing to ministers saying that Network Rail will not have enough funding to deliver the High Level Output Statement are very worrying |
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RFG Christmas lunch success
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| RFG’s Christmas lunch on Wed 12 December attracted over 800 people to enjoy the opportunity to network and celebrate a good year for rail freight.
Welcoming guests from industry, parliament and from across Europe, RFG Chairman Tony Berkeley said ‘rail freight had had a good year |
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RFG News 72 November 2007 published today!
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The UK railway model applied elsewhere in Europe will achieve growth, improved service and reduced state subsidies!
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| RFG Report: The Rail Freight Group today (Monday 26 November) launched a Report which sets out the true story about the UK railway model. The Report has been produced in response to a number of misleading quotes or comments from outside the UK about its railway model, often as an excuse to prevent restructuring to achieve liberalisation and fair competition.
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RFG welcomes £132 million grants to upgrade key rail freight routes
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| 29 Oct 2007. RFG welcomed today’s announcement by the Department for Transport that the Government is providing funding grants from the Transport Innovation Fund of £132 million to upgrade four rail freight routes from major ports.
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RFG welcomes £132 million grants to upgrade key rail freight routes.
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RFG welcomed today’s (29 October 2007) announcement by the Department for Transport that the Government is providing funding grants from the Transport Innovation Fund of £132 million to upgrade four rail freight routes from major ports.
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23rd October - RFG Welcomes Eurotunnel Price Cut for Rail Freight
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| RFG today (Tuesday 23rd October) welcomed the news that Eurotunnel is cutting the cost of access to the Channel Tunnel to an average of £3000 per train, and simplifying its pricing structure. |
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Crossrail – funded but far from approved, and is based on theft of rail freight capacity!
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| RFG welcomes the Government statement that the Crossrail project is now funded and good for passengers. However, the project still needs parliamentary approval, and the Government has a long way to go before it achieves this. Two years ago, RFG pointed out that Government was trying to steal rail freight capacity from rail freight users in order to build Crossrail on the cheap. This situation is still unresolved. 5 October 2007
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Why is the Department for Transport giving grants to white vans?
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| RFG today (13 September 2007) criticised the Government for spending £1.2m of taxpayers money on training white van drivers to drive more slowly and carefully to save fuel, when it is in their commercial interest to do this anyway. |
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