Today, Sunday 3rd August 2025, marks the final episode of the Ashville Weekly series by the Ashville channel on YouTube with episode 250 ‘The Last Dance’. I can’t remember the first time that YouTube suggested an Ashville video to me, but ever since then, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the weekly episodes, as well asContinue reading “Ashville: An Advocate for Railfreight and the End of Ashville Weekly.”
Category Archives: Road Freight
The eHighway Opportunity
To decarbonise road transport and especially that of road freight, Siemens has been developing the eHighway; overhead electrification at 670v DC using pantographs to power HGV’s along routes such as motorways. This link from Business Insider gives quite a lot of detail into the scheme. The trucks themselves are hybrids, able to operate both onContinue reading “The eHighway Opportunity”