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SWR FRANCHISE FUTURE IN DOUBT
… union during December, while the company’s new Bombardier Class 701 trains for suburban routes have been delayed, as have its refurbished Class 442 EMUs. The financial results were released as Mark …
Northern freight priorities must be progressed
Rail Freight Group The performance of passenger services...
HITACHI CUTS JOBS AT NEWTON AYCLIFFE
… Newton Aycliffe site on 17 May 2019. This was one of 10 Class 800/2 five-car bi-mode units ordered for the operator. …
TARMAC WASHWOOD HEATH PROGRESS
… alone generates up to 15 extra trains a day. Aggregates: Class 66 No 66619 Derek W. Johnson MBE passes Wigan North …
SLEEPER FACTORY DENIED PLANNING PERMISSION
NETWORK RAIL’S plan for establishing a reliable sleeper supply...
WESTERN AND WALES CONTRACTS
CONTRACTS FOR Control Period 6 delivery have been awarded by...
EDWARDS FOR WMT MD
WEST MIDLANDS Trains has appointed Julian Edwards as Managing...
ALSTOM WINS PENDOLINO DEAL
… seven-year deal to refurbish and maintain the 56-strong Class 390 Pendolino fleet. Alstom built the Pendolinos, which … services contract with Avanti West Coast covering the 20 Class 221 Super Voyager units. The deal, valued at £117 …
£400 MILLION DESIGN WORK
NETWORK RAIL has awarded 82 framework contracts to deliver design...
DEEP TUBE LEGAL CHALLENGES RESOLVED
LEGAL CHALLENGES relating to the award of a contract to Siemens...
FIRST INTER-CITY FLIRT FOR GREATER ANGLIA
… ON NORWICH ROUTE GREATER ANGLIA introduced its first Class 745 EMU into passenger service on 8 January on its … return and two further return workings. GA has ordered 20 Class 745s from Stadler – 10 Class 745/0 inter-city sets for the Norwich route and 10 …
Europe View
By Keith Fender
… initially using a fleet of second-hand Deutsche Bahn Class 628 DMUs on an entirely electrified network, although … Písek – České Budĕjovice. A fleet of 27 refurbished ex-DB Class 628 DMUs (renumbered as Czech Class 845) is being used to operate the services, with 23 …
Forum
By BRUCE DUNCAN
… travel, out after breakfast and home in time for tea. An 08.00 from Inverness reaching Aberdeen around 10.15 would …
RELAX DON’T DO IT
By Ian Walmsley
… world slides effortlessly by, and that was only standard class. Now fair enough, British Rail wasn’t really like that, … in the first place. Ironing boards: Fainsa seats in a Class 387. Footsy: seats crammed in on a GWR Class 387. RELAX? NOT ON MY WATCH I have long suspected …
WEST MIDLANDS BUILDS FOR THE FUTURE
By James Abbott
… patronage on local rail services has soared. Coventry: a Class 350 arrives with a Liverpool to Euston service on 8 … latter part of this decade, in Control Period 7 (2024-29). Class 196: the first of the new CAF DMUs for the West … helping here will be the advent of 81 new Bombardier-built Class 730 EMUs, 36 of which are earmarked to replace the …