All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 61

  • GB Railfeight Stadler Class 99 Eurodual electro-diesel locomotive impresssion
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    Class 99 electro-diesel locomotive order confirmed

    2022-04-29T08:09:00Z

    UK: GB Railfreight, leasing company Beacon Rail and Stadler have signed an agreement for the supply of 30 Class 99 six-axle electro-diesel locomotives for entry into service from 2025. The operator said they would be the first electro-diesel locomotives capable of hauling heavy freight at main ...

  • Midlands-based industry group Rail Forum is to launch a ‘buddy system’
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    Rail Forum launches industry buddy system

    2022-04-29T05:00:00Z

    UK: Midlands-based industry group Rail Forum is to launch a ‘buddy system’ from May 1, using ‘intelligent pairing’ to connect all new members with a volunteer who will provide advice on starting networking and getting the most out of membership. This will included overcoming obstacles such ...

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    UK railway news round-up

    2022-04-28T05:00:00Z

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

  • Peter Hendy RIA Innovation Conference 2022
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    Strikes will not undermine industry reform programme, says Hendy

    2022-04-27T14:16:00Z

    UK: The industry will not back away from its modernisation and cost reduction drive despite the threat of strike action this summer, Network Rail Chair Sir Peter Hendy told the Railway Industry Association Innovation Conference in Nottingham on April 27. More than 40 000 RMT members ...

  • Keith Williams RIA Innovation Conference 2022
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    Williams sees ‘vast opportunities’ for the private sector under Great British Railways

    2022-04-27T08:58:00Z

    UK: There will be ‘vast opportunities’ for the private sector to shape the rail sector as the development of Great British Railways gathers pace, Keith Williams, author of the Williams-Shapps Review into rail reform, told the Railway Industry Association’s Innovation Conference. GBR is being established ‘as ...

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    Network Rail seeks smarter approach to external disruption

    2022-04-27T05:00:00Z

    UK: Network Rail is considering appointing a system integrator which would work with its operational teams to develop an improved whole system approach to predicting, preventing and managing external disruption such as trespass, vandalism, suicide and staff assaults. This would include developing a target operating model ...

  • Community app social media post
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    Community app to keep locals informed on rail upgrading works

    2022-04-26T05:00:00Z

    UK: The VolkerRailStory joint venture has launched a community app developed by Site Podium to keep local residents and passengers up-to-date on the Hope Valley Railway Upgrade works between Manchester and Sheffield. The app will provide regular updates to people living and working near the construction ...

  • Moseley station impression
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    Camp Hill line stations contract awarded

    2022-04-25T15:22:00Z

    UK: Transport for West Midlands has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to build Moseley, Kings Heath and Hazelwell stations as part of the £61m project to reintroduce passenger services on the Camp Hill line in the south of Birmingham. Site works are scheduled to begin in November for completion ...

  • 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 ...