All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 58

  • Standard Class - Refurbished Pendolino
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    Refurbished Pendolino returns to service with more seats and an updated interior

    2022-04-25T10:40:00Z

    UK: Avanti West Coast has returned to service the first of its 56 Pendolino trainsets to be modernised in a £117m refurbishment programme.

  • East Midlands Railway Class 222
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    Fleet-wide RFID tagging to locate wheel flats

    2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

    UK: The use of RFID tags to identify individual vehicles with wheel flats is being rolled out across East Midlands Railway’s fleet after a trial found it saved hours of staff time. Around 50 Class 153, 156, 158 and 222 vehicles were equipped with RFID tags ...

  • Network Rail signal
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    Network Rail commits to facilitating competition in the signalling market

    2022-04-22T15:31:00Z

    UK: Network Rail has responded to the recommendations in the Office of Rail & Road’s study into ways of increasing the number of suppliers in the signalling market in order to reduce costs and improve performance, efficiency and innovation. The study, published by ORR last November, ...

  • GTR TSGN Thameslink Class 800 EMU
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    Sustainable Rail Strategy Prototype consultation opens

    2022-04-22T13:29:00Z

    UK: RSSB has opened a consultation on the Sustainable Rail Strategy Prototype, an initial version of the ‘comprehensive environment plan that will establish rail as the backbone of a cleaner future transport system’, which the government announced in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail. SRS aims to ...

  • White Rose station impression (1)
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    SPEED principles aim to build station quicker and cheaper

    2022-04-22T05:00:00Z

    UK: Spencer Group is using the Department for Transport and Network Rail’s Swift, Pragmatic & Efficient Enhancement Delivery principles in the construction of a £26·5m station which will provide access to the White Rose office park, shopping centre and bus interchange in south Leeds. The two-platform ...

  • Graham Sutherland
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    FirstGroup CEO appointed

    2022-04-21T13:40:00Z

    UK: Graham Sutherland has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of FirstGroup with effect from May 16. He succeeds Matthew Gregory, who stepped down last year following pressure from FirstGroup’s largest shareholder, New York-based hedge fund Coast Capital. Interim Executive Chairman David Martin will resume the ...

  • Samaritans Trainer Jason Alexandre. Photo credit David Oates
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    UK railway news round-up

    2022-04-21T05:00:00Z

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

  • More than 40 000 staff at Network Rail and train operating companies are to be balloted for strike action in what the RMT union calls ’potentially the biggest rail strike in modern history’.
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    RMT ballots for ‘biggest rail strike in modern history’

    2022-04-20T14:22:00Z

    UK: More than 40 000 staff at Network Rail and train operating companies are to be balloted for strike action in what the RMT union calls ’potentially the biggest rail strike in modern history’. RMT said Network Rail intends to cut at least 2 500 safety ...

  • Angie Doll SNGX
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    Angie Doll becomes permanent Chief Operating Officer at Govia Thameslink Railway

    2022-04-20T14:09:00Z

    UK: Managing Director of Southern & Gatwick Express Angie Doll has been appointed as Govia Thameslink Railway’s Chief Operating Officer with effect from April 20, having been Interim COO for the past six months. She started her railway career in 1999 as Station Manager at Brighton. ...

  • Will Godfrey
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    ORR appoints Director of Economics, Finance & Markets

    2022-04-20T11:17:00Z

    UK: Will Godfrey has been appointed as the Office of Rail & Road’s Director of Economics, Finance & Markets with effect from early June. He returns to ORR 17 years after leaving as Head of Competition Economics. Godfrey is currently a Director on the Price Review ...

  • Passengers
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    Government launches ‘Great British Rail Sale’

    2022-04-19T15:45:00Z

    UK: With the government continuing to fund many train operators, it has announced the ‘Great British Rail Sale’ which will see a limited number of advance tickets on selected routes at Department for Transport franchised train operators in England made available at a discount of up to ...

  • Zipabout Messenger screenshot
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    QR codes offer passengers real-time information by app

    2022-04-19T06:00:00Z

    UK: Zipabout has created QR codes for every station to enable passengers to access real-time journey information by app if display screens and websites are not working. Passengers scan the QR codes to receive personalised information from National Rail Enquiries or a local train operator via ...

  • Bedlington South crossing
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    Level crossing guidance updated

    2022-04-18T05:00:00Z

    UK: The Office of Rail & Road has introduced revised guidance to remove the need to go through the level crossing order process when undertaking improvements such as altering the number of lights on barriers, using a verbal warning alarm when another train is approaching, and ...

  • Mk4 donated to The Fire Service College 2
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    MkIV coaches donated to Fire Service College

    2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Fire Service College has taken delivery of three redundant MkIV coaches donated by Eversholt Rail to replace older vehicles. The college at Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire trains emergency responders to deal with rail incidents. It is also working with leasing company ...

  • Liverpool Baltic station impression (not the final design)
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    Liverpool Baltic station makes progress

    2022-04-14T12:00:00Z

    UK: Mott MacDonald has been appointed as lead designer for the planned Liverpool Baltic station between Liverpool Central and Brunswick on Merseyrail’s Northern Line. Mott MacDonald has been awarded the contract under Network Rail’s Design Services Framework, and will manage single option development and outline design ...

  • Computer screen
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    Shape-changing wayfinding and self-deploying flood barriers among innovation funding recipients

    2022-04-14T08:48:00Z

    UK: Shape-changing passenger wayfinding technology and self-deploying flood barriers are among the 51 projects awarded a share of £1·95m of Department for Transport funding under the Transport Research & Innovation Grant programme. TRIG is run by the Department for Transport and Connected Places Catapult to bring ...

  • tn_gb-lner-Durham_Azuma_01.jpg
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    UK railway news round-up

    2022-04-14T05:00:00Z

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

  • gb-Avanti West Coast Pendolinos Euston-Shutterstock
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    Decisions needed soon on major timetable recasts

    2022-04-13T14:22:00Z

    UK: Crucial decisions need to be taken soon to ensure that major recasts of the East Coast and West Coast main line timetables can be delivered, the Office of Rail & Road has warned.

  • Moveable overhead Wellingborough Class 92
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    £7·6m up for grabs in latest First of a Kind competition

    2022-04-13T08:01:00Z

    UK: The latest First of a Kind innovation funding competition has been launched, with government grants totalling £7·6m available to support the demonstration of innovative technologies in a representative railway environment. This year’s themes are lower emissions and a greener railway, innovations in rail freight, and ...

  • UK Rail For Ukraine (5)
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    UK industry sends humanitarian aid to Ukraine by rail

    2022-04-11T15:08:00Z

    EUROPE: Cross-industry voluntary initiative UK Rail for Ukraine has sent more than 1 500 tonnes of donated aid including non-perishable food, hygiene and medical products to Ukraine by rail. The train departed from DB Cargo UK’s site at Barking in London on the morning of April ...