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After 15 years of incredible service at VTG, Mark Pumphrey announces retirement

VTG Rail UK will be running a photo competition throughout 2025 with prizes awarded to the best photos of VTG wagons.

VTG Rail UK are pleased to announce that Richard Silva has joined VTG Rail UK as our Head of Supply Chain and Asset Management.

The leading construction solutions provider has committed to a five-year agreement, commencing on 01 January 2025. The renewal will see the tank…

VTG Rail UK has announced a new ten-year wagon leasing agreement with Alvance British Aluminium, a leading name in the aluminium manufacturing sector.

Breedon Group plc, a leading vertically-integrated international construction materials group in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, has…

Rail Freight's latest innovation is acknowledged at the National Rail Awards in London, with the teams of VTG and Knorr-Bremse in attendance

iWagon - a joint collaboration with Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) - is rewarded for its groundbreaking technology in the rail freight industry

VTG Rail UK has completed the delivery of the first batch of 34 out of 203 new HOA hopper wagons to Mendip Rail.

Heidelberg Materials UK win the race to become first company in the world to adopt iWagon, saying its decision to retrofit its entire wagon fleet with…

Tour showcases VTG’s iWagon technology and advancing rail freight collaboration

Janet Sheppard, VTG Fleet Controller, reaches impressive milestone

VTG Rail UK has appointed Joseph Grady as its new Sales Account Manager

A fleet of 25 brand new JNA-Z box wagons from VTG Rail UK, the country’s leading freight wagon supplier, will soon be entering traffic for Direct Rail…

The VTG team is victorious in Manchester at the Rail Business Awards, as iWagon wins its first award in the industry, after being announced in…

Paul Lugg, VTG Rail UK's Dry Lease Coordinator and longest serving member, retires

Russ Campbell, Head of Engineering in the UK, reaches impressive milestone

The Rail Wagon Association and RSSB Innovation Day provides a platform for the first look at performance data from the VTG iWagon.

Since 2018, VTG Rail UK and Yellow Rail have partnered together on delivering bogies to our extensive fleet and can now proudly announce together we…

Britain’s largest private freight wagon leasing company, VTG Rail UK, and Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK), the market leader of braking systems and…

Paul Lugg – VTG Rail UK’s longest serving member – is awarded Outstanding Individual Contribution at the annual Rail Freight Group (RFG) awards on 7th…

VTG Rail UK has appointed Marc Hurn as its new Sales and Marketing Director.

Our fabulous new UK HQ is now open at the Topaz Business Park in Bromsgrove, just a few miles down the road from our old base in Rubery, Birmingham.

VTG Rail UK managing director, Colin Denman, has been appointed chairman of the Rail Wagon Association.

VTG Rail UK has enjoyed a fantastic journey so far with three of our team, Sales and Marketing Director Ian Shaw, Dry Lease Co-ordinator Paul Lugg and…

Our new sales and account manager Archie Lucas has spent a week at the GB Railfreight offices in Peterborough as part of his introduction to the rail…

The country’s largest rail wagon leaser, VTG Rail UK, has chosen West Midlands based Acorns Children’s Hospice as its charity of the year and to kick…

We are delighted to announce that VTG Rail UK has won the Innovation and Talent category in the Rail Freight Group Awards 2022.

At VTG Rail UK we are…

We are excited to celebrate this significant achievement on Great Place to Work's Certification Nation Day 17^th May. VTG Rail UK are proud to announce…

VTG Rail has awarded a new long-term contract to Yellow Rail to provide wagon maintenance services at one of the largest rail freight operations in…

Key milestone reached for VTG Rail UK as GB Railfreight takes delivery of its first Ecofret2® triple-wagon sets.

VTG Rail UK is working with Aggregate Industries (AI) to supply 62 high-capacity HYA hopper wagons, deployed primarily in the East Midlands and North…

VTG Rail and DCRail have been named joint winners of the Rail Freight Project of the Year award at this year’s Rail Freight Group (RFG) Awards 2020,…

VTG Rail UK has agreed to supply the Cappagh Group of Companies with 100 new box wagons for the movement of construction materials. DCRail, the…

VTG Rail UK has signed an agreement with WH Davis to build 84 new Ecofret2® triple container wagons.

VTG Rail wins ‘Freight and Logistics Achievement of the Year’ award for second time at National Rail Awards.

VTG Rail was delighted to join project…

- Joint development of a new type of flat wagon as part of a project

- Modular design facilitates adaptation to a wide range of customer needs

- Wagon…

- VTG presents the current status of the VTG Connect digitization initiative and other smart solutions for optimizing transportation and maintenance …

- Revenue up 18.1% to EUR 301.2 million

- EBITDA up 38.7% to EUR 123.2 million

- Earnings per share up 24.3% to EUR 0.59

- Railcar capacity…

- Issuance of 5,477,372 new shares at a subscription price of EUR 52.90 per share

- Major shareholders exercise subscription rights in full

- Warwick…

- Generators for cooling containers used for transporting pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs

- Tried-and-tested Swiss system now also approved across…

- Issue of 5,477,372 new shares

- Subscription ratio of 21:4

- Subscription price of EUR 52.90 per share

- Subscription period from April 25 until…

- VTG/DB Cargo consortium is upbeat on the outcomes of the research project

- Closing event at the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMVI)

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- Revenue up 5.7% to EUR 1,072.6 million

- EBITDA up 7.9% before one-time effects

- Adjusted earnings per share slightly down

- Plans to raise…

- Group revenue up 5.7% to EUR 1,072.6 million

- EBITDA 7.9% higher excluding one-time effects

- Plans to raise dividend to EUR 0.95

- One-time…

- VTG Aktiengesellschaft intends delisting of VTG shares

- Public tender offer by major shareholder Warwick Holding GmbH at statutory minimum price of…

- Revenue up 3.4 percent to EUR 775.7 million

- 4.5 percent improvement in adjusted EBITDA

- Adjusted earnings per share 5.7 percent higher than a…

- Further diversification of the VTG portfolio and a stronger presence in Europe

- VTG fleet grows from over 83,000 to more than 94,000 railcars

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- DB Cargo/VTG consortium presents “Innovative freight wagons” developed as part of a German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure…

- Executive Board and Supervisory Board recommend to shareholders not to accept the offer

- Offer price does not reflect the fundamental value of VTG…