Network Rail news – Page 10
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Rail Business UKBespoke information for Commonwealth Games passengers
UK: Network Rail and Whoosh have launched a bespoke journey planning platform for the Commonwealth Games, enabing spectators to scan QR codes on posters at Birmingham New Street station to access tailored passenger information. This enables users to check the schedule for the games, find listed ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail begins consultation on maintenance changes
UK: Network Rail has begun formal consultation with trades unions on proposed reforms to maintenance which it says are required to ‘improve productivity and efficiency’, and would see around 1 900 redundancies. The infrastucture manager said the proposed changes would involve: fault fixes by ...
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Rail Business UKSpecialists appointed to railway weather resilience taskforce
UK: Network Rail has announced a taskforce to investigate and make recommendations on how the railway can develop its approach to resilience during hot weather. The review will consider four key areas, each led by an independent specialist. Forecasting: Dame Julia Slingo FRS, former chief scientist ...
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Rail Business UKFull electrification in scope as Transpennine Route Upgrade makes progress
UK: The Transpennine Route Upgrade is no longer the series of piecemeal interventions and partial electrification that regional stakeholders had feared, with the programme now including significant works to increase speeds and capacity as well as full electrification of the Transpennine North Railway between York and Manchester. ...
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Rail Business UKHuddersfield to Dewsbury route upgrading approved
UK: The Secretary of State for Transport has approved a Transport & Works Act order granting Network Rail powers to undertake the Huddersfield to Westtown (Dewsbury) Improvement Scheme, which forms part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade. The scheme covers a 13 km section of the trans-Pennine ...
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Rail Business UKGovernment confirms further funding for ECML ETCS rollout
UK: The government has confirmed a £950·5m tranche of funding for the East Coast Digital Programme to deploy ETCS Level 2 on the section of the East Coast Main Line between London’s King’s Cross and Stoke Tunnel, south of Grantham. The funding announced by Secretary of ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail CEO says productivity changes are essential as strikes begin
UK: Talking to Rail Business UK the day before the first day of strikes by RMT union members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies, NR Chief Executive Andrew Haines reflects on the causes of the dispute and how far the infrastructure manager may be from finding a resolution.
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Rail Business UK‘Revolutionary’ footbridge to be built at Stowmarket
UK: The existing concrete footbridge at Greater Anglia’s Stowmarket station is to be replaced using the first modular ‘flat pack’ bridge to a design developed by the AVA consortium. The concept for the stainless-steel framed design was developed by Network Rail, Expedition Engineering (design), Hawkins\Brown (architect), ...
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Rail Business UKDigital twin aims to cut station energy usage
UK: Real-time data on Reading station’s energy usage is to be fed into a digital twin in a project which aims to improve the station’s energy performance and cut its carbon emissions by up to 20%. The project is being undertaken by Network Rail with Atkins ...
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Rail Business UKRail sector responds to announcement of RMT strike dates
UK: The RMT union has announced that more than 50 000 railway workers will strike on three days in June, in what it says will be the biggest dispute on the network since 1989. There will be strikes at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies ...
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Rail Business UKClass 43 ETCS retrofit project makes progress
UK: Thales and leasing company Porterbrook have announced the successful retrofitting of three Class 43 HST power cars with ETCS onboard equipment complying with UNISIG baseline B3R2. Following successful ETCS Level 2 Testing at Network Rail’s Melton Rail Innovation & Development Centre ...
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Rail Business UKMidland Main Line electrification market engagement begins
UK: Network Rail has begin market engagement ahead of procurement for the Midland Main Line electrification programme to extend 25 kV 50 Hz overhead to Nottingham and Sheffield. Electrification is currently in place from London St Pancras International to Bedford, Kettering and Corby, with East Midlands ...
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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 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 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 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 UKETCS lineside equipment commissioned on Northern City Line
UK: In a major step for the East Coast Digital Programme, the ETCS Level 2 signalling and train control equipment on the Northern City Line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate was commissioned over the May Day bank holiday weekend. The conversion is a key element in ...
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Rail Business UKTUC calls for in-sourcing of renewals and end to funding cuts
UK: The Trades Union Congress published its report The Future Of Rail Funding In The UK on May 4. This calls for ministers to stop Network Rail cuts which it says could cost 2 500 jobs; for renewals to be brought in-house — which it estimates ...
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Rail Business UKStrikes will not undermine industry reform programme, says Hendy
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 ...