There’s an enormous amount of information available about rail freight. Here’s a collection of links to companies that are directly involved in the provision of rail freight services, terminal services or rail-connected property.
There are also a wide range of external consultancies who have rail freight expertise, many whose details can be found through the Rail Freight Group, the industry’s trade association.
General advice
Rail Freight Group
www.rfg.org.uk
Department for Transport
www.dft.gov.uk
Freight Operating Companies / rail industry
English Welsh & Scottish Railway
www.ews-railway.co.uk
Freightliner
www.freightliner.co.uk
GBRailfreight
www.gbrailfreight.com
Direct Rail Services
www.directrailservices.com
Advenza Freight
www.freightbus.co.uk
Logico Transport
www.logicotransport.co.uk
Network Rail Freight
www.networkrail.co.uk/freight
International Operations
Spain (Transfesa)
www.transfesa.com
Germany (DBCargo)
www.db-cargo.de
Eurotunnel Freight Solutions
www.eurotunnel.com
Terminal operators
Potter Group
www.pottergroup.co.uk
WH Malcolm
www.whm.co.uk
Creative Logistics
www.creative-logistics.co.uk
AHC Warehousing
www.ahcwarehousing.co.uk
John G Russell
www.johngrussell.co.uk
Tibbett & Britten
www.tibbett-britten.com/railterm.htm
WH Bowker
www.bowkertransport.co.uk
O’Connor
www.oconnor.co.uk
Gilbraith Transtore
www.gilbraithtranstore.co.uk
ABP Connect
www.abpconnect.com
Road and Rail
www.roadandrail.co.uk
A.V. Dawson
www.av-dawson.com
Roadways Container Logistics
www.roadways.com
Developers promoting rail schemes
Prologis
www.prologis.com
FPDSavills
www.fpdsavills.co.uk/industrial
Alconbury developments
www.alconbury.co.uk/
Burford Group
www.burfordgroup.com
Helios Properties plc
www.heliosproperties.com
Wilson Bowden Developments
www.wbdevelopments.co.uk
St. Mowden Properties
www.kpi.co.uk
Peel Holdings
www.peelholdings.co.uk/
Rail Connected Freight Villages
Eurocentral
www.eurocentralm8.com
DIRFT
www.dirft.com
Cabot Park, Bristol
www.cabotpark.co.uk
Keypoint Swindon
www.keypointswindon.com
Wakefield Europort
www.wakefieldeuroport.co.uk
Kingmoor Park, Carlisle
www.kingmoorpark.co.uk
Cargo Durham
www.cargodurham.co.uk
Port of Tyne
www.portoftyne.com
Birch Coppice
www.birchcoppice.co.uk