1. Rail freight: agent of sustainable growth David Spaven Scottish Representative – Rail Freight Group Transport for Regional Growth conference, Edinburgh, 5 November 2015

2. The economics of rail freight steel wheel on steel rail, on a guided track a segregated and signalled right of way low line-haul costs for long hauls and/or big volumes

3. Productivity & performance up to 72 containers per train bulk train payloads up to 1,500t 98% of supermarket boxes on time. © Tom Curry

4. Wider benefits of rail freight reduced road congestion cuts trunk road surface damage by HGVs – eg timber one third of road haulage equivalent CO2 resilience in face of long-term oil price uncertainty much safer than road haulage.

5. Rail freight in Britain © Freightliner

6. Key intermodal hubs in Scotland Deep Sea intermodal – Coatbridge domestic intermodal: - Coatbridge - Grangemouth - Mossend - Aberdeen - Inverness.

7. Crucial to the Scottish economy whisky exports bottled water supermarket supplies coal oil cement. © John Furnevel

8. Delivering rail’s potential quality of service – and price route and terminal capacity route and terminal capability.

9. Capacity case study: Perth-Inverness So when is it going to happen?

10. The Inter-City Express campaign intercityexpress.transformscotland.org.uk

11. New location opportunities Alloa / Girvan / Invergordon / Leven / Speyside – whisky Bathgate – national distribution Blackford – bottled water Corpach – timber / fish feed / aluminium Dundee – regional hub for Tayside Millerhill?

12. Level playing field for capability?

13. Rail‘s patchwork coverage © Network Rail © WH Davies

14. Key Scottish aims 1.Coatbridge / Mossend / Grangemouth intermodal rail hubs: - enhance terminal facilities and road access 2. East Coast & West Coast Main Lines: - extend overtaking loops for 775m Channel Tunnel trains 3.Enhance WCML ‘loading gauge’ clearance to match ECML 4.Enhance loading gauge & capacity north of the Central Belt. © John Furnevel

15. Concluding thoughts rail freight offers market resilience rail freight ticks all the Scottish Government policy boxes but its full potential is not being realised.

16. Thank you. david@rfg.org.uk