UK wants 40% more freight on trains by 2040, but rail volumes just fell 3%. What’s stopping the shift from road?

A struggling rail-freight business is being circled by dozens of private investment funds, stoking fears that it could be broken up.

Some 31 years after they were privatized, the U.K.’s railways are heading back into public ownership. One positive of privatization is the emergence of so-called “open access” operators. Despite ...

Manufacturer eyeing entry into the UK freight market with its popular locomotive which has been built for customers in Europe ...

One of Britain's biggest rail freight operators is being put up for sale as its state-owned German parent confronts financial challenges in its domestic and wider European businesses. Sky News has ...

£150m ($201m) investment was made in the dual-power locomotives. Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, Minister of State for Rail, said: “Major private sector investments like this £150 million commitment to ...