All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 118
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Rail Business UKGreater Anglia rolls out disabled-led accessibility training
UK: All 2 500 of Greater Anglia’s frontline staff are to receive accessibility awareness training delivered by a team of trainers who have disabilities themselves. The team was put together by consultant Sarah Rennie, who said the trainers would ‘bring a level of lived experience into the ...
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Rail Business UKBusiness Travel Association sets out investment priorities
UK: The Business Travel Association has published a pre-election wish-list of its long-term infrastructure investment priorities. For the rail sector, this includes delivering High Speed 2 ‘as currently planned with no reductions in rail links or service provision’, Northern Powerhouse Rail ‘to improve connectivity across the North ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
The Freight Transport Association has called on the government to secure the future of High Speed 2 and reassure businesses of its commitment to infrastructure investment. ‘FTA and its members are excited about the prospect of HS2 and what it can deliver for the logistics industry. With ...
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Rail Business UKSunday service ‘revolution’ coming to Wales
UK: Transport for Wales has announced a ‘Sunday railway revolution’, with the December timetable change due to bring a 40% increase in services as a step towards ‘a truly seven-day railway.’ The 186 additional services will include increased frequencies on the Valley Lines, the introduction of Sunday ...
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Rail Business UKRail Industry Ambassadors wanted
UK: The Young Rail Professionals networking and educational association is recruiting volunteer Rail Industry Ambassadors to visit schools, colleges, universities and career fairs to raise awareness of the ‘fantastic’ career opportunities available within the rail industry. Ambassadors are sought from all levels of the industry, from frontline ...
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Rail Business UKFire-damaged Saxmundham station to be rebuilt
UK: Greater Anglia has obtained planning approval to restore the main building at Saxmundham station, which lost its second floor, roof and chimneys in a fire in February 2018. Work will start early next year to remodel the structure as a single-storey building incorporating an air-conditioned ...
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Rail Business UKArup and AHR to design Siemens Mobility’s Goole plant
UK: Siemens Mobility has appointed Arup and architects AHR to design its £200m rolling stock manufacturing and commissioning plant at Goole in East Yorkshire. The 42 ha Goole 36 site is close to the M62 motorway. Siemens plans to have 80 000 m2 of manufacturing, commissioning ...
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Rail Business UKOpinsta develops custom apps for Virgin Trains
UK: Opinsta has worked with Virgin Trains to develop a defect reporting app which front line staff can use to log any technical problems with the Alstom Pendolino and Bombardier Transportation Voyager trainsets for review by maintenance teams and asset management systems. The app also provides an ...
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Rail Business UKSouth Western Railway Class 701 Aventra suburban EMU unveiled
‘The new Class 701 trains will transform journeys for our customers with benefits including onboard wi-fi, at-seat charging points, real-time information screens, air-conditioning, wide gangways and wide doors to improve the ease of boarding and alighting’, said SWR Engineering Director Neil Drury.
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Rail Business UKMidland Main Line electrification mast production reaches half way stage
UK: Worksop Galvanizing is using what it says is the largest acid bath in the UK as part of the process of applying the protective coating to components for the 25 kV 50 Hz electrification support structures which are being installed between Bedford and Corby. ...
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Rail Business UKHS1 awards fibre networking concession
UK: Wholesale and custom fibre broadband infrastructure provider Nextgenaccess Ltd has agreed an exclusive 20-year concession enabling it to deploy fibres along High Speed 1 between London and Channel Tunnel. The company said this would provide the shortest fibre route to connect with interntional networks via the ...
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Rail Business UKStrong field for 22nd Rail Business Awards
UK: More than 50 companies and organisations representing many different aspects of the UK rail sector have been shortlisted for the 22nd Rail Business Awards.
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
UK news 2 An agreement has been reached with the Department for Transport for LNER HST sets to be temporarily cascaded to East Midlands Railway. The sets were refurbished in 2016, and a new information system will be fitted before they enter service with ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail sets out plan to increase its expenditure with SMEs
UK: Network Rail has published an action plan setting out how it intends to meet a government target of awarding 33% of its annual expenditure to small and medium sized enterprises by 2022. The infrastructure manager reported that its expenditure with SMEs had reached 25·6% in 2016-17, ...
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Rail Business UKTelecoms concession proposed to improve on-train connectivity
UK: Network Rail is seeking information from telecoms suppliers to enable it assess the viability of awarding a concession for the provision of uninterrupted high-speed cellular internet and mobile reception between Wrexham and Holyhead. The infrastructure manager envisages that improved connectivity could be achieved at no cost ...
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Rail Business UKCity & Guilds Group buys railway training company Intertrain
UK: City & Guilds Group has acquired Intertrain, which provides more than 300 railway infrastructure training courses and trains more than 22 000 learners and 40 apprentices every year. The courses include Level 2 and 3 engineering apprenticeships, and re-skilling, upskilling and recertifying existing rail personnel. Intertrain ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail regions take over project delivery
UK: The next phase of Network Rail’s devolution strategy came into force on November 11, when responsibility for capital projects was transferred from the former centralised Infrastructure Projects business to the five geographical regions that were established in June to provide support for the 14 routes responsible ...
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Rail Business UKFive election priorities for rail freight
UK: The Rail Freight Group has set out its priorities for the next government, calling on all party leaders to include rail freight as part of their transport commitments ahead of the general election. RFG has called for policymakers to commit to five ...
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Rail Business UKFreight sector needs more ‘good devolution’, RIA conference hears
UK: ‘We need to find a way to maximise the “good devolution” and minimise the bad going forward’, Rail Freight Group Executive Director Maggie Simpson told the Railway Industry Association’s annual conference in London on November 7. The RIA conference included a panel discussion on devolution of rail ...
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Rail Business UKFurther delay to Elizabeth Line opening
UK: Elizabeth Line project promoter Crossrail Ltd has announced further delays and cost increases to the project. Earlier this year Crossrail Ltd announced that it had identified a six-month delivery window between October 2020 and March 2021. Its updated forecast is that the tunnels under central London ...