Rail freight move goods for all the major supermarkets.

Rail freight move 35% of the fuel used to make electricity.

In 2008/09 rail freight moved 20.63 billion net tonne km of goods and lifted 104 million tonnes of goods.

A typical freight train can remove 60 HGVs from our roads.

On average a gallon of fuel will move a tonne of goods 246 miles on rail but only 88 miles by road.

It removes around 6.7 m lorry journeys per year equating to 1.4 billion lorry kilometres in 2007/08 and saving around 2.3 million tonnes of CO2.

Every tonne of freight carried by rail produces at least 80% less carbon dioxide than by road.

Rail freight is vital to Britain’s future economic success. It directly contributes £870 million to the economy.