RaiItrack cuts pricing red tape
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• RaiItrack has finally simplified its pricing structure for track access after 14 months of talks with freight operator English Welsh & Scottish Railway. EWS, which signed the agreement with RaiItrack last week, says the move will make it easier for hauliers who wish to use railfreight. EWS welcomes the new agreement. "Previously, if a customer wanted to move a load of timber from A to B it could take several weeks to get a price far the track access charges," says a spokesman. 'This means we can get back to customers much more quickly." The agreement, which was seen as essential by the industry, should now remove some of the bureaucracy that has traditionally gone with moving goods by rail. Le Shuttle Freight, which resumed services on 15 June, carried 36,491 lorries in its first full month of operation-68% of the July 1996 traffic.