News / Cut to UK rail freight grants will drive loads back onto the roads

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By Alexander Whiteman

21/02/2017

Rail freight faces being undermined by a UK government decision to cut more than 20% of funding to a grant encouraging a modal shift from road.

This has raised fears that more journeys could return to roads.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has reduced the annual Mode ...

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