maritime-transport-segro

Maritime launches Southampton-Northampton via East-West rail route

Maritime Transport has launched a new rail freight service between DP World Southampton and its Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton (SLPN). The first arrival in Northampton on 16 June was also the first freight train to enter service at Maritime’s 35-acre SRFI, and the first to operate the full length of the newly reinstated section of East West Rail (EWR) between Oxford and Bletchley. Part of a government-backed programme to re-establish a strategic rail corridor ... [+]