The UK’s GB Railfreight has completed the testing of the first freight train on the Ipswich Chord, which is expected to enter into commercial service on 31 March. The £59m Ipswich Chord forms a part ...

A new £59m railway giving the Port of Felixstowe a direct link to the Midlands is opening to freight. Until now freight trains have had to travel in to Ipswich and then out again, adding a hour ...

Network Rail’s plans for the Ipswich chord – a £41m investment in Ipswich’s railway that will ultimately take up to 750,000 lorry journeys off the road every year – has been accepted for ...

Transport minister Stephen Hammond was in Ipswich on Friday 21 March to see the newly completed 1.2km stretch of railway built by Network Rail to increase capacity for freight trains and ease a ...