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FIRST TFW CLASS 230 REACHES ITS FUTURE BASE

THE FIRST Vivarail Class 230 unit arrived in Wrexham from Long...

NEW DESKS FOR CLASS 442s

DB ESG has signed a contract with South Western Railway to supply...

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SIX PROGRAMMES ON NR’S PROJECT SPEED SHORTLIST

NETWORK RAIL has identified six programmes where it is aiming...

COVID FRANCHISE COSTS REVEALED

THE DEPARTMENT for Transport paid £2.28 billion to train operators...

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ETCS PREFERRED FOR ESSEX THAMESIDE

Rebuilding Fenchurch Street on Tower Gateway DLR site mooted...

Orion unveils parcels ‘319’

AT AN event on 10 August, Orion High Speed Logistics displayed...

EDINBURGH DEAL FOR SIEMENS

SIEMENS MOBILITY has been awarded a contract covering electrification,...

Clear the decks for action

Paleo-privatisation, the original 1992 version, had a simple financial structure...

Brodie’s expands into former Wabtec plant

BRODIE ENGINEERING has taken over the former Wabtec plant at...

Trackwatch: September 2020

A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground and Northern
Ireland Railways infrastructure...

RVE MEET THE BUYER 2020

AS WE start to emerge from the Covid-19 crisis and try to get...

Between the Lines: September 2020

Until March, at around 07.30 on any weekday morning, London-bound platforms...

Northern cuts Rose Hill Marple services

NORTHERN IS to suspend services to and from Rose Hill Marple...

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Post-HS2 service assumptions revealed

King’s Cross to Nottingham and CrossCountry to Hull among proposals...

AVONMOUTH CHANGES

MARITIME TRANSPORT has acquired around eight acres of land at...

Bathtub curves calculated

Hitachi’s Class 385 is a model of reliability growth...

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Metro set for new fleet transformation

PHILIP SHERRATT describes plans for new trains and additional services...

Option for five additional ‘701s’

ROCK RAIL has extended the scope of an option to provide additional...

Baldock for Alstom signalling role

ALSTOM HAS appointed Jason Baldock as Signalling Systems & Infrastructure...

STOBART GROUP SELLS FOR A PEPPERCORN

STOBART GROUP plc is getting out of the rail infrastructure business,...

Scotland sets out electrification ambitions

Wires to reach Aberdeen and Inverness by 2035 Masked...

FAR NORTH OF SCOTLAND TIMBER TRIAL

VICTA RAILFREIGHT has been awarded a Freight Fund Grant worth...

Major delays to Core Valley Lines transformation

DELAYS TO the Core Valley Lines (CVL) modernisation are expected...

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Getting projects right

Network Rail’s devolution policy offers the opportunity...

THREE DEAD AFTER SCOTTISH HST DERAILMENT

NETWORK RAIL INSPECTS HIGH-RISK EMBANKMENTS AS INVESTIGATION...

PRM extensions

EXTENSIONS TO dispensations against Persons with Reduced Mobility...

Women in Rail awards ceremony cancelled

THE WOMEN in Rail Awards 2020 ceremony has been cancelled as...

Crossrail: Summer 2021 opening not feasible

Not for the first time – and if the track record is anything...

AGREEMENT FOR DRIVER TRAINING TO RESTART

SEVERAL PASSENGER operators restarted driver training during...

TfL review to consider alternative operating models

THE GOVERNMENT-LED review of Transport for London’s future...