Case Studies

The following case studies explore a range of rail freight activities.

The supermarket supply story
Why don’t supermarkets send more stuff by rail? is a common refrain. In fact rail is playing a growing part in supermarket logistics and has seen three new household names, Asda, Argos and Superdrug join its list of customers very recently.
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Freight onto Rail: Derbyshire County Council Derbyshire County Council, which won last year’s National Transport Award for Freight, sponsored by the Freight on Rail campaign, has an outstanding story to tell on freight with 8 million tonnes of freight now carried by rail each year that previously went by road.
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Freight onto Rail: The Potter Group
Rail-freight has the potential to remove thousands of HGVs from our roads. The Potter logistics group offers bulk carrying facilities by rail as flexible as road transport and hopes to expand operations over the next few years in line with the Government's target to increase rail-freight by 80 per cent over ten years.
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Freightliner Waste Train - Bath and Bristol to Calvert

Waste by Rail
Rail offers cost effective waste transportation to local authorities faced with looming Government environmental and recycling targets. Across the country, local authorities and specialist contractors endorse rail as the safest and most environmentally friendly method of transporting large volumes of waste whether municipal, contaminated land remediation or industrial and commercial waste.
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