• The service will use the Brigg Line, a route primarily used by freight trains.

    BBC: Cleethorpes to Sheffield Saturday train for landslip line

  • The nearby line, used by freight, will also include a stop at Bermuda Park.

    BBC: Coventry & Warwickshire

  • In 2003, Mr Bowker has come to the same conclusion about regional routes, rural branch lines and track used by freight trains.

    BBC: Shadow falls on rural railways

  • Since early 2002 the route has been used by freight services.

    BBC: Passengers ride freight line from Bristol-to-Portbury

  • While Via is luxe in the same sense that your sister is beautiful, travelers seeking true luxury ought to opt for the Royal Canadian Pacific, a passenger train owned by freight company Canadian Pacific Railway.

    FORBES: Poetry in Locomotion

  • The train-operating companies are understandably furious as their targets of increasing passenger numbers by 50% and freight by 80% by 2010 are looking ever more distant.

    ECONOMIST: Transport strategy

  • Privatizations in basic industries were undoing an arrangement by which freight shippers simply passed along uncompetitive rail rates to the government.

    FORBES: On the Right Track

  • The 85-year-old was a passenger in a Renault Kangoo when it was hit by a freight train at Yarnton on Wednesday.

    BBC: Yarnton level crossing death 'unexplained'

  • Passengers sit aboard trains in rail yards as Amtrak attempts to generate revenue by shunting freight cars on and off their trains.

    ECONOMIST: Letters | The

  • Thomas Pizzey, 85, from Banbury, was a passenger in a Renault Kangoo when it was hit by a freight train at Yarnton on Wednesday.

    BBC: Tom Pizzey

  • "We're probably the only people in the world selling socks brought in by air freight, " says Sunakoshi Yukio, spokesman for Wix, the Japanese distributor for the New York-based manufacturers.

    CNN: A SOCK TO THE SYSTEM

  • Rail use is projected to increase by 50% over the next decade, and rail freight by 80%.

    ECONOMIST: British election briefing: Transport

  • Anand, a former chairman of India's Railway Board, argues that a move in that direction is logical in India, where passengers, by and large, are becoming more expensive, as they demand more space and comfort, while freight by contrast costs less, as improved technology leads to better and faster use of space.

    ECONOMIST: Indian railways: There's no such thing as a free ride | The

  • Estimates suggest that the carriage of freight by rail over a couple of decades in the late 19th century added perhaps 10% overall to American output.

    ECONOMIST: A thinkers’ guide | The

  • One consequence of Indian Railways' present bias, according to a rough calculation by the World Bank, is that freight tariffs could be reduced by more than 40% if its social burdens were paid directly by the user or the government.

    ECONOMIST: Indian railways: There's no such thing as a free ride | The

  • Over the past 10 years, the frequency of pipeline spills has decreased by 59%, and the volume of pipeline spills has decreased by 43%, even as overall production has increased both the mileage of active pipelines and the freight tons shipped by them.

    FORBES: Pipeline Infrastructure: Rhetoric v. Reality

  • Ferronorte's trains should reach Santos in just 40 hours, and cut freight costs by 20%, says Antonio Maciel, the rail firm's chief executive.

    ECONOMIST: Brazil

  • Last summer lower rates were indeed announced, and the amount of freight rose by 29% in the last four months of the year.

    ECONOMIST: Sorry for this delay of 100 years

  • Almost all the world's freight goes by sea, rail and road.

    ECONOMIST: The effect on business and leisure

  • The algorithms that came out of Powell's lab in the 1980s had changed the industry's "less-than-truckload" segment (consisting of parcels and smaller freight) by mapping out a more efficient way to plan routes and using terminals that break down shipments.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As its chairman, Sir Alastair Morton, has made clear, many billions of pounds need to be invested in the railways by the government, as well as private investors, over the next decade to meet projected demand for rail services by both passengers and freight.

    ECONOMIST: Transport

  • Contrary to the obvious assumption, rising fuel prices might actually cause the use of ships for freight, as manufacturers reduce fuel use not by shipping things shorter distances, but by relying more heavily on efficient sea freight at the expense of less efficient land- and air-based modes of transport.

    FORBES: A Leader in Efficient Shipping

  • The licences were brought in to help protect the island's passenger and freight service provided by Isle of Sark Shipping.

    BBC: Sark shipping consultation begins

  • At present only 5% of British freight is carried by rail compared with 15% in France and 21% in Germany.

    ECONOMIST: Transport

  • His battered body was found by children playing on a freight railway line more than two miles from the shopping centre.

    BBC: James Bulger's mother thanks supporters

  • Last month, the STB commissioned a study of competition in the freight rail industry by a third-party research firm, Wisconsin-based Christensen Associates.

    FORBES: All Aboard

  • After levelling off in March, the amount of goods hauled by trucks - known as freight volumes - fell once again in April and May.

    BBC: Trucking industry faces world of woes

  • FedEx Express reported a sharp 13% decline in international priority freight revenues, while international air freight revenues fell by 17% year-on-year during the third quarter.

    FORBES: After Weak Results FedEx Looks Like A $105 Stock

  • Its freight revenues grew by 6% annually in 2012, mainly owing to core pricing gains and higher fuel surcharges, which led to a 7% gain in average revenue per car in 2012.

    FORBES: Quick Take

  • After a disappointing set of Q3 results from FedEx last week driven by overcapacity in the international freight industry and an unfavorable volume-mix in the express package delivery segment, we have adjusted our price estimate for the company.

    FORBES: After Weak Results FedEx Looks Like A $105 Stock

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