Network Rail

railjournal | October 02, 2017

BRITAIN’s secretary of state for transport Mr Chris Grayling has approved a £60.4m project to construct a second track on part of the congested 19.5km branch linking the Great Eastern Main Line at Ipswich with the port of Felixstowe.The project involves constructing a second track on the 1.8km section between Grimston Lane foot crossing and Trimley station. Infrastructure manager Network Rail says this will increase freight capacity from 33 to 47 trains per day, while also improving ...

Cranfield University | November 12, 2019

Network Rail and Cranfield School of Management have agreed an educational partnership between the two organisations. Network Rail is offering employees in its supply chain operations function a suite of development opportunities provided by Cranfield, including course content relevant to the railway supply chain. Network Rail owns and operates Britain’s railway infrastructure, they are responsible for 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals...

Yahoo Finance | June 18, 2019

This 8 year contract, valued up to £300m will see TVS SCS supporting Network Rail to transform part of its Material & Logistics supply chain covering a wide range of general consumables, commodities and rail specific spares for a variety of customers including Maintenance, Works Delivery and Projects, consolidating the supply from over 300 suppliers. TVS will implement its bespoke inventory planning and management software and deploy industry-leading purchasing and logistics expertise ...

XPO Logistics | January 17, 2020

As one of the largest providers of transportation and logistics services worldwide, XPO Logistics serves over 50,000 customers. Supply Chain Digital takes a closer look at the firm. The company offers a range of different solutions. These are: drayage, expedite, full truckload, global forwarding, intermodal, last mile, less-than-truckload, managed transportation. With around 202mn sq.ft of facility space, XPO Logistics is considered one of the largest logistics providers worldwide. The organisat...