All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 111
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
The railway between Edenbridge and Tonbridge reopened on March 16 after Network Rail and contractor BAM Nuttall completed work to repair a landslip on a 30 m section of embankment around the River Eden which had closed the line from December 22. A further 400 m of ...
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Rail Business UKDyer & Butler undertakes winter emergency response works
UK: Infrastructure services specialist Dyer & Butler has undertaken a number of emergency response schemes on behalf of Network Rail over the winter period, including embankment strengthening, flooding protection and drainage repairs following heavy rain across the infrastructure manager’s Kent, Sussex and Wessex routes. Its first major ...
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Rail Business UKFirst of Greater Anglia’s Aventra EMUs on test
UK: Greater Anglia has begun testing the first of the 111 Aventra 25 kV 50 Hz electric multiple-units being supplied by Bombardier Transportation for its London commuter routes. In the early hours of March 17, the EMU was tested on the Southend Victoria line in what the ...
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Rail Business UKQuattro Group acquires assets of Road Rail Cranes Ltd
UK: Road-rail vehicle provider Quattro Group has acquired the assets of Wrexham-based Road Rail Cranes Ltd, including its road-rail vehicles, trailers, support vehicles and ancillary equipment. This expands Quattro Group’s existing fleet of 1 000 rail, road and construction machines based at 17 depots in the UK ...
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Rail Business UKLighter weight platform coping stones developed
UK: Norfolk-based contractor RG Carter worked with Greater Anglia to create a platform edge coping stone weighing almost half as much as previous designs. This meant smaller machinery was needed to move and install the coping stones during the construction of a 80 m platform at Sheringham ...
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Rail Business UKAerodynamic research facilities enhanced
UK: The University of Birmingham’s Transient Aerodynamic Investigation facility at Derby’s Rail Technology Centre business park has reopened following a £1·5m renovation. Part of the University of Birmingham’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & Education, the TRAIN rig with an instrumented 150 m long track enables researchers ...
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Rail Business UKRapid assembly staircase maintains station access
UK: Scaffolding contractor QED worked with public access staircase specialist UK System Scaffold Hire to ensure access to Moorside station in Greater Manchester was maintained while it was being refurbished. The companies said the Haki Public Access Staircase offered a 70% reduction in erection time compared to ...
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Rail Business UKZonegreen updates Northam depot protection system
UK: Zonegreen has installed the latest generation of its Depot Personnel Protection System at the Northam site in Southampton where Siemens Mobility maintains rolling stock for South Western Railway. This follows a similar installation at Kings Heath in Northampton last year. The supplier said the upgraded DPPS ...
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Rail Business UKRecruitment of apprentices for Goole train factory begins
UK: Siemens Mobility has begun recruiting apprentices for its future Goole train manufacturing facility, with 12 three-year Level 3 Rail Engineering Technician Apprenticeship positions to be among the first of up to 700 jobs it expects to create at the site. The apprentices will start in September ...
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Rail Business UKHarsco Rail awarded mobile maintenance train contract
UK: Network Rail has awarded Harsco Corp’s Rail division a US$25m contract to operate and maintain its fleet of eight mobile maintenance trains for three years from April, with an optional two-year extension. The MMTs were built by Robel and entered service from 2015. Designed to protect ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
The House of Commons Transport Select Committee’s programme for spring 2020 incudes ‘High Speed 2: Next steps’, a planned a one-off session looking at the key future of challenges of the project, including integration between HS2 and rail services in the North and Midlands. ...
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Rail Business UKRail in the 2020 budget
UK: ‘We’re also going to build better railways’, said Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak when he presented his budget to Parliament on March 11. The budget included: £20m to develop an outline business case with detailed designs and costings for the Midlands Rail Hub programme ...
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Rail Business UKGreater Anglia completes directly-managed Norwich Victoria sidings project
UK: Greater Anglia has opened four sidings able to stable 12-car trains just outside Norwich station, with its first train using the facility on March 3. The operator directly managed the nine-month Norwich Victoria sidings project in its biggest infrastructure scheme to date, with Keltbray as ...
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Rail Business UKZipabout targets European growth with passenger information platform
UK: Real-time personalised customer communication technology developer Zipabout is now targeting European and non-rail markets with its Passenger Connect platform, having completed a £1·35m funding round and appointed Crispin Humm as Chief Business Development Officer. Currently used by National Rail Enquiries, LNER and ScotRail, Passenger Connect ...
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Rail Business UKManchester Piccadilly through platforms become ‘a station within a station’
UK: Following what Network Rail describes as ‘a major rethink’, the two through platforms at Manchester Piccadilly which handle up to 14 trains/h are to be managed independently from the rest of the station. The changes at platforms 13 and 14 will include the creation of a ...
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Rail Business UKTransPennine Express MD departs
UK: Finance Director Liz Collins has been appointed Interim Managing Director at TransPennine Express, after Leo Goodwin left the FirstGroup franchise on March 5 to ‘pursue opportunities outside the group’. ‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank Leo for his contribution’, said First Rail Managing ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail to become accredited Real Living Wage employer
UK: Network Rail is to become an accredited Real Living Wage employer in April, with all its contractors, including those providing facilities services such as cleaning and catering, expected to pay employees appropriately. The current Real Living Wage calculated by the Living Wage Foundation is £9·30 per ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
Planning applications have been submitted for stations at Darlaston and Willenhall on the Walsall – Wolverhampton line. The development of the two stations is being led by Transport for West Midlands and the West Midlands Rail Executive, in collaboration with the Department for Transport, Network Rail, West ...
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Rail Business UKNorthern enters public ownership with new Managing Director
Speaking to Rail Business UK, Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps accepted that whilst some changes would come in immediately, including deep cleaning of all trains and improvements to Sunday timetables, passengers needed to accept that ‘things won’t change overnight’.
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Rail Business UK‘Changing’ CrossCountry appoints regional directors
Source: Tony Miles UK: CrossCountry has announced the appointment of four regional directors with responsibility for operational and financial performance at the franchise, which is held by Arriva under a directly-awarded contract that currently runs to October 2020. ‘CrossCountry is changing and these regional directors will enable ...