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Great Western: Cathedrals, Cotswolds, borders and growth
IAN BAXTER, STRATEGY DIRECTOR AT SLC RAIL, REPORTS ON PARTNERSHIP WORKING...
Modern Railways August 2020 issue: video podcast
Our 'Pan Up' correspondent Ian Walmsley returns to host our latest video podcast talking about the contents of the August 2020 issue of the magazine. The video includes contributions from Editor Philip Sherratt and Industry and Technology Editor Roger Ford.
ETCS for EMR bi-modes
The bi-mode trains ordered by Hitachi for East Midlands Railway’s Midland main line services will be fitted with European Train Control System (ETCS) following a £12 million investment announced by Government.
Curzon Street construction shortlist
HS2 Ltd has shortlisted three bidders for the construction contract for its Birmingham city centre terminus at Curzon Street.
Metro depot rebuild contract
Stadler has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to build a new Tyne and Wear Metro depot at Gosforth to accommodate the new trains it is supplying for the system.
East Coast ‘803’ construction underway
Hitachi has begun manufacturing the Class 803s to be introduced by FirstGroup on its East Coast Trains open access service between London and Edinburgh in autumn 2021.
The third protocol
In April 2019 I wrote ‘Third degree murder’, about the Office of Rail and Road’s effective ban
on extending the third rail network...
HS2’s platform to build
With Notice to Proceed granted for Phase One from London to the West Midlands...
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