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  • London Elizabeth Line Tottenham Court Road station (Photo: Tom Nicholson/TfL)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2023-04-27T05:00:00Z

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

  • ScotRail Class 334 EMU (Photo Eversholt)
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    Scottish Rail Holdings board members appointed

    2023-04-26T13:40:00Z

    UK: On April 26 Scotland’s Minister for Transport Kevin Stewart announced the appointment of two non-executive directors to the board of Scottish Rail Holdings, the non-departmental public body wholly owned by the Scottish government which acts as the owning group for train operator ScotRail. Richard Cairns ...

  • SWR station vending machines
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    Station vending machines fitted with ‘living walls’

    2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

    UK: ‘Living walls’ which can be attached to vending machines are being tested at Bournemouth station by South Western Railway, Decorum Vending, Regency Design and plant supplier PHS Greenleaf. The small, self-sufficient, vertical gardens are designed to thrive in all locations, whether in sunlight or shade. ...

  • ScotRail Highland Explorer Class 153 and Class 156 (Photo ScotRail)
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    ScotRail to carry more bikes to Mallaig

    2023-04-25T04:40:00Z

    UK: ScotRail has increased its capacity for carrying bicycles on the West Highland line with the introduction of Highland Explorer DMUs on services to and from Mallaig.

  • GWR Class 802 IET Penzance TM01
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    Class 802 maintenance moves to Plymouth as quest for better availability goes on

    2023-04-24T11:43:00Z

    UK: Great Western Railway, Eversholt Rail and Hitachi Rail are to extend their maintenance partnership covering 36 Class 802 inter-city trainsets, with work to be transferred to the GWR depot at Laira in Plymouth.

  • Freightliner Ipswich
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    Freightliner creates ERTMS training academy

    2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

    UK: Freightliner has developed a rail freight training academy in Ispwich to support the roll out of ERTMS. The operator has leased the seventh floor of MCR Property Group’s St Vincent House office building, which offered ‘a blank canvas within which to create a unique space ...

  • CEMEX bearer plant
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    Concrete sleeper plant expanded

    2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

    UK: Cemex has completed a ‘significant’ investment to increase the capacity and capabilities of its concrete switch and crossing bearer plant at Somercoates in Derbyshire. The expansion will enable the site to produce an additional 18 000 linear metres of bearers every year. The existing stressing ...

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    Hinckley freight terminal plan moves forward

    2023-04-20T09:00:00Z

    UK: The Planning Inspectorate is to review proposals for the development of a rail freight interchange and distribution hub at Hinckley in Leicestershire.

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    Rail Business UK

    UK railway news round-up

    2023-04-20T05:00:00Z

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

  • GCRE site
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    Hitachi partnership to underpin GCRE’s net zero aim

    2023-04-19T11:35:00Z

    UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has agreed a technology development partnership with Hitachi, and procured a Static Frequency Converter to support planned electrification of the railway test facility.

  • Long Marston Exercise 4
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    Long Marston hosts Network Rail major incident training exercise

    2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

    UK: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre has hosted a Network Rail major incident training exercise which replicated an collision between a train and a road vehicle. During two separate weeks in March, more than 300 people took part in the National ...

  • Hoo Peninsula railway station impression
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    Cost increases kill Isle of Grain passenger service proposal

    2023-04-18T05:00:00Z

    UK: Plans to reintroduce a passenger service on the freight-only Isle of Grain branch on the Hoo Peninsula have been put on hold, with Medway Council citing ‘high inflation, significantly increased construction costs and pressures on public spending’. In 2019 Housing Infrastructure Fund support for upgrading ...

  • Devizes (Photo: Mike Faherty/CC BY-SA 2.0)
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    Devizes station would need to be part of wider rail plan

    2023-04-17T05:00:00Z

    UK: The construction of a Devizes Gateway station at Lydeway is unlikely to represent value for money as a standalone project, but it could be viable as part of a wider rail improvement programme, a study has concluded. The feasibility study undertaken by Wiltshire Council, Devizes ...

  • Class 99 bi-mode locomotive
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    Class 99 locomotive maintenance contract awarded

    2023-04-14T09:45:00Z

    UK: Stadler has been awarded a contract to provide full maintenance and servicing of the 30 Class 99 six-axle electro-diesel locomotives ordered by leasing company Beacon Rail for use by GB Railfreight. The service contract will start once the first loco has been handed over in ...

  • London King's Cross station
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    London King’s Cross station gets LED lights

    2023-04-14T04:00:00Z

    UK: Metal halide lamps on platforms 1 to 8 at London King’s Cross station have been replaced with more than 160 LED lights with the aim of significantly reducing maintenance costs, cutting energy consumption by 60% and future-proofing the building’s illumination systems. ...

  • SWR Class 444 EMU (Photo SWR)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2023-04-13T05:00:00Z

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

  • East West Rail
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    Initial East West Rail services to be included in Chiltern contract

    2023-04-12T14:59:00Z

    UK: The operation of future East West Rail ‘Connection Stage 1’ passenger services between Oxford, Bletchley and Milton Keynes is to be added to the existing National Rail Contract for the operation of Chiltern line services. Arriva subsidiary Chiltern Railways currently holds the National Rail Contract ...

  • ROG Stadler Class 93 tri-mode locomotive in Valencia (Photo ROG)
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    First Class 93 loco expected to arrive shortly

    2023-04-12T11:33:00Z

    UK: The first of the Class 93 tri-mode electric-diesel-battery locomotives ordered by Rail Operations Group is expected to be delivered shortly, following the completion of initial testing at Stadler’s factory at València in Spain. ROG said the locos are expected to significantly reduce CO2 emissions on ...

  • Northern train (Photo Northern)
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    Northern uses Growth Flag data intelligence tool to identify opportunities

    2023-04-12T07:26:00Z

    UK: Train operator Northern is using the Growth Flag data intelligence platform from social enterprise Growth Company to gain a better understanding of the transport needs of businesses in the area it serves. The tool is used by organisations including public sector entities, local authorities and ...

  • The dry ice technology being demonstrated at Wensleydale Railway
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    Supersonic-cryogenic leaf removal technology tested

    2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

    UK: The University of Sheffield and train operator Northern have demonstrated a passenger-train mounted rail head treatment system which fires dry ice pellets in a stream of air at supersonic speed to freeze any leaves on the line. The leaves are then blasted away as the ...