Five in the running to supply new TransPennine Express fleet
UK: Invitations to negotiate have been issued to five potential manufacturers of new trains which will enable TransPennine Express to move away from largely diesel operation as its core Leeds – Manchester route is electrified.
UK: Delivering a high-capacity rail artery across northern England
A major upgrading programme is in progress to enhance resilience, raise capacity and cut journey times on Network Rail’s busy east-west route through the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds. Murray Hughes investigates.
Liverpool – Manchester Railway Board created to push for construction of new line
UK: A Liverpool – Manchester Railway Board has been launched by the two cities’ metro mayors and other stakeholders to lead the development of proposals for a high speed line between the conurbations.
TransPennine Express confirms plans to ‘build back’ its timetable
UK: TransPennine Express has confirmed that it expects to begin reinstating services to meet commitments it made when it announced temporary timetable reductions in December 2023.
Battery traction trial ahead as TransPennine Express fortunes improve
UK: Overcrowding and short-notice cancellations at state-owned TransPennine Express have declined since the December timetable change, prompting Managing Director Chris Jackson to suggest the operator is in a ‘better place’.
Long-term and overseas opportunities for rail apprentices
UK: The Transpennine Route Upgrade programme is ‘an investment in people’ and ‘it really is important that these projects leave a legacy of skills’, Rail Minister Huw Merriman said when he announced the latest tranche of funding.
Latest tranche of Transpennine Route Upgrade funding confirmed
Signalling: Visualising designs at an earlier stage
Post-Covid rail sector must understand what it does best, says Haines
Research expertise used to optimise Transpennine Route Upgrade designs
TransPennine Express to stop using loco-hauled push-pull trains in December
Immersive training centre to increase rail worker safety
‘Fully staffed’ TransPennine Express ‘needs to become simpler’
Rail Minister commits to trans-Pennine electrification ‘in full’ and HS2 to Manchester
Manchester rail plans rethought as ‘ambition wasn’t able to be delivered’
Locally guided £72m rail plan aims to unblock northern rail capacity
From aircraft carriers to the Transpennine Route Upgrade
AI to improve Transpennine Route Upgrade project scheduling
Rail projects included in Treasury’s list of schemes for acceleration
‘On Track to Better’ Transpennine Route Upgrade awareness campaign launched