DB Cargo UK has embarked on a project with Siemens Mobility to commence the installation of the European Train Control System (ETCS) on the UK’s Class 66 freight locomotives. Starting in July, the ...

US-based Electro-Motive Diesel has delivered the last batch of seven new Class 66 locomotives to UK rail freight company GB Railfreight (GBRf). The new Class 66s are currently being transported to ...

UK’s GB Railfreight (GBRf) has taken delivery of the first batch of five new Class 66 locomotives, which are on order with US-based Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD). EMD was contracted in September 2013, ...

Simply sign up to the US & Canadian companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The company that has dominated key segments of the European diesel locomotive market is set to face ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It has been easy in recent years on Europe’s railways to identify privately operated freight trains, as long as ...

IT’S enough to make any railway enthusiast feel chuffed. Andrew Scott, who is about to relinquish his role as York’s National Railway Museum (NRM) boss, was asked to unveil a new nameplate for a GBRf ...

The class 66 locomotive crashed into a buffer because the driver was distracted by the evening's lockdown announcement A passenger train crashed into a derailed locomotive because a driver became ...