We demonstrate U-band Raman amplification in non-zero dispersion shifted fibre, exploiting the amplified spontaneous emission of an erbium-doped fibre amplifier as a broad-bandwidth, incoherent pump for low-noise amplification. By doing so, we achieve a high overall gain of ~22 dB over a ~2.6-THz 3-dB bandwidth and obtain an average noise figure of ~4 dB in a 40km-long, discrete amplifier configuration, in both forward pumped and backward pumped scenarios. The performance of the U-band Raman amplification is also studied through transmission of a coherent signal over a 285-km point-topoint link. This work represents, at the time of writing, the longestreach single-span U-band transmission demonstrated.