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Great British Railways is a ‘golden opportunity’ to end boom and bust
UK: The creation of Great British Railways provides a ‘golden opportunity’ to take ‘a radical new approach’ to tackle the boom and bust investment cycles, according to House of Commons Transport Committee Chair Ruth Cadbury.
FS Group launches London-based transport consultancy to solve challenges at scale
INTERNATIONAL: Italy’s national railway FS Group has launched London-based transport and infrastructure consultancy FS Advisory.
HBC to build net-zero Maintenance Delivery Unit building in Sheffield
UK: Network Rail has awarded HBC Construction a £7·2m contract to design and build a Maintenance Delivery Unit to provide staff facilities in Sheffield, ‘replicating and evolving’ the approach the contractor is using on its ongoing Barnetby MDU project in North Lincolnshire.
Ireland: Next steps emerge in all-island rail vision
A strategy document has been issued setting out the next steps in delivering the recommendations of Ireland’s All-Island Rail Review.
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Embracing Automation in Track Maintenance
Automation of track maintenance is becoming a reality. Advances in digitalisation mean that infrastructure managers and contractors are increasingly able to overcome the challenges of shorter possession windows and a lack of skilled staff in the rail market globally. This White Paper explains the innovations that Plasser & Theurer has ...
