questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of trends in the level of rail freight usage since 2014.
answerText: In 2014-15 the total freight moved was 22.2 billion net tonne km. This has decreased by 29% to 15.7 billion net tonne km in 2022-23. Much of the decline is due to the phasing out of coal for power stations. Coal traffic decreased by 93% from 6.5 billion n...
heading: Railways: Freight