All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 59
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Rail Business UKLoram awarded Network Rail infrastructure monitoring fleet contracts
UK: Network Rail has awarded Loram two contracts totalling £25m for the support of its infrastructure monitoring vehicle fleet. The first contract covers the maintenance of 65 vehicles which Network Rail uses for the digital measurement and analysis of track and structure assets. The second contract ...
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Rail Business UKTrain toilets get antimicrobial coating
UK: The 162 toilets on East Midlands Railway’s Class 222 inter-city diesel multiple-unit fleet are being treated with Coatings Tech’s Cotech BioSafe protective coating incorporating Microban antimicrobial technology. Coatings Tech has previously applied its Cotech Clear Coat Easy Clean product for the outside of EMR trains, ...
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Rail Business UKGoole business centre to support railway research and innovation
UK: The Rail Accelerator & Innovation Solutions hub for Enterprise in Goole has been formally inaugurated, adjacent to the new Siemens Mobility rolling stock assembly plant which is now nearing completion.
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Rail Business UKPassenger rail performance down but better than pre-pandemic
UK: Passenger rail performance worsened in January to March 2022 but punctuality was still better than before the pandemic, according to the latest statistics from the Office of Rail & Road. Of the 1·64 million trains planned in the three months, 72·4% arrived on time, 89·1% ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail sends tools to Ukraine
UKRAINE: British infrastructure manager Network Rail and its supply chain partners have donated four vehicles loaded with railway spares and tools including generators, drills, jacks and cutting equipment to Ukraine’s national railway Ukrzaliznytsia, which issued an appeal for help through the International Union of Railways following ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.
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Rail Business UKRail industry responds to RMT strike vote
UK: The rail industry has responded to RMT union members’ vote in favour of strike action across Network Rail and a number of train operating companies. Announcing the ballot result on May 24, RMT said 71% of the more than 40 000 members who were balloted ...
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Rail Business UKManaging Director of West Coast Partnership Development appointed
UK: Shamit Gaiger has been appointed Managing Director of FirstGroup/Trenitalia’s High Speed 2 shadow operator West Coast Partnership Development, and is to join the business on July 25. Gaiger led AECOM’s Advisory Europe team, and has held roles at RSSB. She was Director of Strategy at ...
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Rail Business UKAnalytics to improve rolling stock condition monitoring
UK: University of Strathclyde spin-off company Bellrock Technology is working with leasing company Angel Trains to provide a ‘proof of value’ showing how its Lumen analytics software can improve rolling stock condition monitoring. One four-week project will look at obtaining more meaningful data from door fault ...
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Rail Business UKIndustry responds to launch of cross-London Elizabeth Line
UK: Organisations from the across the rail sector have commented on the opening of London’s Elizabeth Line on May 24. Politics Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps said ’the Elizabeth Line is a beacon of British success, not just for this marvel of engineering but ...
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Rail Business UKLondon’s Elizabeth Line opens at last
UK: Elizabeth Line services began running on the Crossrail core route across central London on May 24, with an initial 12 trains/h linking Paddington station in the west to Abbey Wood in the southeast.
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Rail Business UKReston station opens
UK: Reston station on the East Coast Main Line in the Scottish Borders opened on May 23. The first train to call since the closure of the previous station in 1964 was the 06.16 TransPennine Express service from Edinburgh.
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Rail Business UKRFID tags fitted to freight fleets
UK: Work is underway to fit more than 15 000 wagons and freight locomotives with radio frequency identification tags for use by lineside readers at 22 wheelset monitoring locations. The two-year project is being funded from the £22m Freight Safety Improvement Portfolio for 2019-24. ‘Each freight ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.
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Rail Business UKBurnham and Rotheram call for more control of rail
UK: Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and his Liverpool City Region counterpart Steve Rotheram called for more investment in public transport and greater devolution of budgets and control at a meeting held in Manchester on May 12 as part of the ASLEF trade union’s Invest ...
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Rail Business UKRawtenstall – Manchester travel corridor business case under development
UK: Systra is to undertake a survey of residents and business on behalf of Rossendale Council to support the production of a strategic outline business case for the development of a Rawtenstall – Manchester travel corridor. The council was awarded £150 000 from the Department for ...
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Rail Business UKNext Railtex to be held in Birmingham in May 2023
UK: The next Railtex industry trade fair will be held at the NEC in Birmingham on May 9–11 2023, event organiser Mack-Brooks Exhibitions has confirmed. A total of 130 companies from 14 countries exhibited at the Railtex/Infrarail 2022 event at Olympia London ...
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Rail Business UKIVU.rail goes live at Northern
UK: Northern has gone live with the first phase of deployment of IVU Traffic Technologies’ IVU.rail planning software, covering on-the-day control and engineering systems. This provides visibility of all resources in one system, supporting controllers in their decision making, reducing manual tasks to enable staff to ...
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Rail Business UKNext Chair of Transport Focus appointed
UK: Nigel Stevens has been appointed as Chair of Transport Focus, the arm’s length body of the Department for Transport which acts as the independent statutory consumer watchdog for rail passengers in Great Britain; bus, coach and tram passengers in England outside London; and all users ...
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Rail Business UKThales launches TPWS Mk4 Single Cab Control Unit
UK: Thales has launched the Mk4 version of its Train Protection & Warning System control unit, which is designed to offer additional features through a simple upgrade from previous versions. The first deployments of the Mk4 will be with Northern Ireland Railways and Chiltern Railways, where ...