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New SME Chair & Vice Chair (Photo RIA)

Railway Industry Association announces SME Group leadership

2024-05-03T12:27:00+01:00

UK: The Railway Industry Association announced the appointments of the next Chair and Vice-Chair of its SME Group on May 2.

LNER trains and passengers at London King's Cross station (Photo LNER)

Train operators launch joint innovation programme

2024-05-03T04:00:00+01:00

UK: Four train operators are to run a joint programme giving technology companies the opportunity to demonstrate AI, telecoms, quantum and other innovations in a real-world rail environment.

DB Cargo UK 66039 fitted with ETCS technology travels to RIDC (Photo Network Rail)

Class 66 ETCS testing underway

2024-05-02T11:00:00+01:00

UK: Dynamic testing has begun with a DB Cargo UK Class 66 diesel locomotive which has been retrofitted with ETCS as the First in Class for the roll-out of the digital signalling technology across the most common type of freight loco in the UK.

Tactile surfacing web (Photo LNER)

UK railway news round-up

2024-05-02T04:00:00+01:00

This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

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