All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 15

  • Waterbeach station (Photo Network Rail)
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    Waterbeach station to be relocated

    2024-04-08T04:00:00Z

    UK: Cambridgeshire County Council has called tenders for an estimated £35m design and build contract for the relocation of Waterbeach station to a new site further to the north. This would support the Waterbeach New Town development of 4 500 homes. Opening is now envisaged for ...

  • Freightliner and Zero sign contract (Photo Freightliner)
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    Freightliner to explore synthetic locomotive fuel

    2024-04-05T13:19:00Z

    UK: Freightliner and synthetic fuel developer Zero Petroleum have announced a partnership which aims to achieve fossil-free locomotive operation by 2040 and overall net zero by 2050. They are also looking at non-road mobile machinery and other vehicles. Zero has developed proprietary Fischer-Tropsch process technology to ...

  • Motorola Solutions body camera
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    ScotRail offers all front-line staff body-worn cameras

    2024-04-05T04:00:00Z

    UK: ScotRail has equipped its front-line staff with more than 1 000 Motorola Solutions VB400 body-worn cameras, building on an initial deployment in 2017. ‘We are making body cameras available to all of our front-line staff, and any team member who wishes to use one can ...

  • LNER Azuma Leeds - still
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    InterCity East Coast direct award planned

    2024-04-04T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Department for Transport intends to directly award incumbent London North Eastern Railway a contract to continue to operate InterCity East Coast passenger services. LNER is a brand of state-owned operator of last resort DfT OLR Holdings Ltd, which has operated services on the East ...

  • Network Rail engineering works and worker with hivi (Photo Network Rail)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-04-04T04:00:00Z

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

  • XC Voyager 221127 under the wires at Stoke on Trent on 06.30 Bournemouth to Manchester PiccadillyTM
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    CrossCountry gets more Voyagers as refurbishment plan agreed

    2024-04-03T14:39:00Z

    UK: CrossCountry has selected Alstom as preferred bidder to refurbish its fleet of Voyager DMUs over a broadly two-year period as part of an investment package aimed at increasing capacity on its network by up to 25%. The national long-distance operator also announced on March 25 ...

  • RIA Innovation Director Milda Manomaityte launched the Destination Revenue Growth report (Photo RIA),
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    The right policies could increase ticket revenue without higher fares, says RIA

    2024-04-03T14:37:00Z

    UK: The Railway Industry Association has published a ‘fresh blueprint’ for ticketing reform, saying a focus on customer experience and boosting ridership could drive revenue growth without needing to increase fares. The Destination: Revenue Growth report based on input from RIA’s members was launched by Innovation ...

  • iPort aerial by day
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    Winvic begins iPort Rail expansion works

    2024-04-03T11:00:00Z

    UK: Winvic Construction Ltd has begun work on Phase 2 of the iPort Rail project, which will double the size of the rail freight terminal in Doncaster. The multimillion pound project is being undertaken for site owner Verdion after the British subsidiary of MSC Group’s Medlog ...

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    Train ticket refund fee capped at £5

    2024-04-03T04:00:00Z

    UK: The maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge when an unused ticket is refunded was reduced from £10 to £5 on April 1. The change follows a review by the Office of Rail & Road which found that 5·8 million tickets were ...

  • WMT Alstom Class 730 unveil - 300623 Milton Keynes - 730018 TM11
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    Porterbrook to finance Class 730 depot improvements at Bletchley

    2024-04-02T13:30:00Z

    UK: Rail leasing and asset management company Porterbrook is to finance a £66m upgrade of Bletchley depot as the principal maintenance base for West Midlands Trains’ Alstom Class 730 Aventra EMU fleet. This will include investment in overhead electrification equipment, 10-car and five car sidings, refurbishment ...

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    Hitachi launches flexible software for signaller training

    2024-04-02T04:00:00Z

    UK: Hitachi has launched TREsim Flex, a realistic offline training environment for signallers that accurately replicates operational events. Hitachi says TREsim Flex offers all the advanced features of its established TREsim product, with a variety of signalling controls and flexible deployment options. TREsim Flex can run ...

  • Zephir depot shunter (Image Porterbrook)
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    Zephir shunters to replace Class 08 locos at steel works

    2024-03-28T14:29:00Z

    UK: Leasing company Porterbrook has bought three Zephir LOK 16.300 depot shunters which will be leased to GB Railfreight for use at the Celsa Steel works in Cardiff. The LOK 16.300 is intended as a more sustainable option than the Class 08 diesel shunting locomotives currently ...

  • emergency services taking part in the 'Royal Oak' incident exercise at Sutton Coldfield station (Photo Network Rail)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-03-28T04:00:00Z

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

  • Bristol Temple Meads named UK's first 'Station Innovation Zone' (Photo Network Rail)
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    SMEs selected for Bristol Temple Meads innovation zone

    2024-03-27T11:00:00Z

    UK: Connected Places Catapult, Network Rail and Great Western Railway have selected three SMEs to receive funding of up to £75 000 for technology trials in the Station Innovation Zone at Bristol Temple Meads. Chrome Angel Solutions applies ‘serious games’ technology to tackle performance, safety and ...

  • c2c train (Photo c2c)
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    c2c maps mobile coverage

    2024-03-27T04:00:00Z

    UK: Essex to London commuter operator c2c has worked with mobile analysts Streetwave to produce a map of mobile coverage along its route. Analysis of the four main mobile networks found that all provided a poorer experience during peak hours, when larger passenger numbers increase mobile ...

  • Station lift (Photo ORR)
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    Station lift reliability needs to be improved, says regulator

    2024-03-26T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Office of Rail & Road has raised concern over the rate of station lift faults, and it is to review of Network Rail’s processes to ensure it is taking appropriate measures to plan and carry out maintenance and repairs. ORR says there are 1 ...

  • Bedlington South crossing on the Northumberland Line (Photo Northern)
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    Single-leg pricing for the Northumberland Line

    2024-03-26T04:00:00Z

    UK: Northern is to implement single-leg pricing on the Northumberland Line when passenger services start this summer. The maximum off-peak single fare for the full route from Ashington to Newcastle will be less than £3. Northern told Rail Business UK ‘customers using the new Northumberland Line ...

  • East Midlands Railway Luton Airport Express Class 360 EMU (Photo EMR)
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    East Midlands Railway begins regional train fleet refurbishment

    2024-03-25T11:00:00Z

    UK: East Midlands Railway has begun a £60m programme to refurbish its fleet of Class 360 electric and Class 158 and Class 170 diesel multiple-units in partnership with Siemens Mobility and leasing companies Angel Trains, Porterbrook and Eversholt. The Siemens Class 360 EMUs leased from Angel ...

  • 240321_HS2_Chiltern tunnel TBM Cecilia Breakthrough_655
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    Breakthrough completes boring of High Speed 2’s longest tunnel

    2024-03-22T14:52:00Z

    UK: On March 21, tunnel boring machine Cecilia broke through the north portal of the Chiltern Tunnel on High Speed 2.

  • Avanti West Coast Pendolino at Manchester Piccadilly (Photo Tony Miles)
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    Avanti West Coast won’t be nationalised, says Minister

    2024-03-21T16:46:00Z

    UK: The government will not terminate Avanti West Coast’s operating contract, Rail Minister Huw Merriman has told the House of Commons. At Transport Questions on March 21, Labour’s Shadow Rail Minister Stephen Morgan asked ‘a simple question to the Minister today, will he strip Avanti of ...