All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 122
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Rail Business UKClass 142 Pacer sale raises £80 000 for Railway Children charity
UK: Angel Trains has raised more than £80 000 for the Railway Children charity through the sale of withdrawn Class 142 Pacer diesel multiple-units to heritage railways, community railways and the emergency services. The leasing company is also to donate a further £20 000 as part of ...
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Rail Business UKBCM Construction management buyout completed
UK: A management buyout has been completed at rail and transport contractor BCM Construction, with founder Hugh McGarry and Finance Director Terry Sullivan selling the majority of their equity to the remaining management team members and retiring from active involvement. The deal includes associated companies Construction Hire ...
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Rail Business UKONS reclassifies Train Operating Companies as public non-financial corporations
UK: Train Operating Companies which are operating under Emergency Measures Agreements with the UK and Scottish governments have been reclassified as public non-financial corporations, the Office for National Statistics announced on July 31. The reclassification, which is backdated to April 1, is a statistical matter which affects ...
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Rail Business UKHull Trains announces date for service restart
UK: Open access operator Hull Trains has announced plans to restart its East Yorkshire to London inter-city services during August. As a non-franchised operator Hull Trains must survive on a purely commercial basis. It did not qualify for the emergency support which the Department of Transport has ...
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Rail Business UKAdvanced Automatic Sander distributor appointed
SANDER: Unipart Rail has been appointed exclusive worldwide distributor of AB Hoses & Fittings Ltd’s Advanced Automatic Sander, a variable-rate sanding system which won the Technical Innovation Excellence category at Railway Gazette Group’s 21st Rail Business Awards. AAS meets the recommendations of RSSB’s T1107 research project which ...
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Rail Business UKSWR highlights Fawley branch passenger proposal
UK: South Western Railway ran a ‘fact-finding’ train on July 28 to highlight the proposals to reintroduce a passenger service on the 13 km branch from Totton near Southampton to Fawley. This follows Hampshire County Council’s successful bid for funding from the Department for Transport’s ‘Restoring ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
LNER is to trial at-seat catering during August, with passengers ordering and paying for food and drink using the Let’s Eat At Your Seat app which was developed by QikServe as part of the LNER FutureLabs accelerator programme. The operator said this would provide confidence to passengers ...
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Rail Business UKPlan to decarbonise Scottish passenger trains by 2035
UK: Full decarbonisation of passenger rail services in Scotland by 2035 including the electrification of an average of 130 track-km/year is envisaged in an action plan published by Transport Scotland on July 28. Developed in collaboration with Network Rail Scotland and ScotRail, the Rail Services Decarbonisation ...
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Rail Business UKEmergency Recovery Measures Agreements announcement delayed
UK: Despite industry expectations, details of the Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements which are due replace the current Emergency Measures Agreements with passenger train operators from September were not released before the end of the Parliamentary session on July 22. Rail Business UK understands that discussions with operators ...
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Rail Business UKStansted Express Class 745/1 trainsets enter passenger service
UK: The first two of the 10 Stadler Flirt Class 745/1 electric multiple-units ordered for Greater Anglia’s Stansted Express service entered passenger service on the route between London Liverpool Street and Stansted Airport on July 28. ‘This milestone marks the start of the ...
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Rail Business UKOperators unable to meet DfT ambition for full timetable from September 7
UK: Industry sources confirm that the Department for Transport has asked passenger operators to work towards a ‘near-full timetable’ from September 7 as part of the government’s plan to encourage people to start using public transport and to return to working normally. At the moment no advice ...
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Rail Business UKHS2 contractor mandates active hearing protection with integrated noise monitoring
UK: Following trials with ear defenders developed by Eave as part of the HS2 Innovation programme, the Costain-Skanska joint venture is to mandate the use of active hearing protection with integrated noise monitoring across its HS2 sites from September 1. Unlike passive protection, the headsets allow the ...
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Rail Business UKRailway Industry Association sets out trade policy expectations
UK: The Railway Industry Association has set out four key requests to the government as the UK looks to develop an independent trade policy following the end of the Brexit transition period. These are for: rail to continue to be included in the negotiation of free ...
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Rail Business UKInquiry to consider implications of the pandemic for public transport
UK: The longer-term implications of the coronavirus pandemic for public transport are to be examined by the House of Commons’ Transport Select Committee, which has called for written evidence on the extent that the pandemic ‘could, and should’, be used as an opportunity to influence how people ...
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Rail Business UKHS2 Ltd implements Project Bank Accounts
UK: Following a successful trial on two enabling works contracts, HS2 Ltd has approved the use of Project Bank Accounts across existing and future contracts for construction of the first phase of the high speed line. PBAs are designed to provide speedier payments and greater transparency at ...
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Rail Business UK£589m to ‘kickstart’ Transpennine Route Upgrade
UK: The allocation of £589m to ‘kickstart’ the enhancement of the trans-Pennine main line between Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester was announced by Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps on July 23, along with details of a Northern Transport Acceleration Council which is to be formed ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
LNER is selling reusable face masks with designs inspired by the cities of Edinburgh, London and Newcastle. They cost £13·50, with proceeds going to the operator’s chosen charity, the Campaign Against Living Miserably. The 10 bridges on Network Rail’s Anglia route which ...
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Rail Business UKAlstom Breeze hydrogen train designated Class 600
UK: Alstom and leasing company Eversholt Rail are to invest a further £1m to ‘fast track’ development of the Breeze hydrogen multiple-unit concept, and envisage that the first production trains could be in service in 2024. The Breeze concept involves fitting fuel cells to surplus Eversholt-owned Class ...
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Rail Business UKBirmingham University station upgrade funding confirmed
UK: The Department of Transport announced £12m of funding for the £56m project to rebuild University station in Birmingham on July 22. It is the seventh busiest station on the West Midlands Trains network, serving the fourth largest university in the UK, nearby schools and the Queen ...
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Rail Business UKClass 442 panel contract awarded
UK: South Western Railway has awarded DB ESG a turnkey contract for the design, approval, supply, installation and testing of 36 drivers’ desk panels for 18 Class 442 EMUs. The panels are required for the re-tractioning of the units, which will involve considerable alterations to the in-cab ...