All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 21
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Rail Business UKRelief for Southeastern passengers as train toilets to be installed
UK: Southeastern has announced that a toilet is to be retrofitted to the Class 707 City Beam electric multiple-units used on London suburban services. Agreements for the multi-million pound investment are to be finalised with leasing company Angel Trains in the coming weeks, the operator said ...
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Rail Business UKPlatform scans to facilitate level boarding of new trains
UK: Cordel has installed Lidar sensors on two Network Rail maintenance units to make accurate measurements of platforms which will help to maximise the opportunities for level boarding of Southeastern’s next generation of London suburban trains. Platform heights, shapes and curvature vary ...
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Rail Business UKLondon Underground traction motor refurbishment capacity doubled
UK: Eriks UK & Ireland has completed a £1·2m refurbishment of its engineering workshop at Greenford in west London as a dedicated facility for servicing London Underground traction motors. This has more than doubled production capacity, and increased the workforce from 11 to 23 employees. Partnerships ...
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Rail Business UKDatabases launched to make better use of transport accessibility research
UK: The National Centre for Accessible Transport has launched a database to consolidate accessible transport research, strategy and policy-related documents, along with a transport barriers database highlighting the challenges that disabled people face. NCAT said the initiatives ‘mark a significant step forward in providing robust evidence ...
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Rail Business UKVirtual work experience programme showcases rail careers
UK: Train operator TransPennine Express has launched a free virtual work experience programme aimed at anyone interested in a career in rail. The course developed with Springpod gives an insight into what it’s like to work at the operator, exploring how timetables are put together, what ...
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Rail Business UKDigital twins help ScotRail reduce station and depot energy consumption
UK: ScotRail has partnered with Optimise AI to create digital twins of its stations and depots which will help the operator identify opportunities to save energy. The technology monitors energy usage and carbon emissions in real time, assesses the data against the UK Energy Performance Certification ...
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Rail Business UKHigh Speed 2 ATO over ETCS train control contracts awarded
UK: Project promoter HS2 Ltd has let contracts for the supply of signalling and train control systems for the high speed line between London and the West Midlands.
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.
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Rail Business UKSoutheastern Class 376 EMU fleet to get mid-life refresh
UK: Contracts have been awarded for a mid-life refresh of the Class 376 electric multiple-units used on Southeastern’s London suburban services since 2004. The work is be undertaken in collaboration with leasing company Eversholt Rail and Alstom, the successor to Bombardier Transportation which originally built the ...
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Rail Business UKOpen access ‘at a crossroads’ as government sets out more stringent tests for approval
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Heidi Alexander has set out her expectations for how applications to run open access services should be considered as the rail industry is restructured.
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Rail Business UKRegulator orders HS1 Ltd to lower access charges
UK: The Office of Rail & Road has directed high speed line concessionaire HS1 Ltd to lower the access charges for passenger and freight trains on the route from London to the Channel Tunnel. ORR’s Final Determination of HS1 Ltd’s spending plans for April 1 2025 ...
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Rail Business UKSizewell branch upgrading to support power station project
UK: Preparatory works for a major renewal of the Sizewell branch between Saxmundham and Leiston are to begin in January, ahead of the start of major works later in the year. This will enable the line to be used to transport construction materials for the Sizewell ...
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Rail Business UKNetworking company enters the rail market with TransPennine Express win
UK: MLL Telecom has entered the transport sector by winning a a three-year contract to provide TransPennine Express with a managed software defined wide area network The SD-WAN encompassing 37 sites, including the train operator’s head office, data centres and stations, will include dual rather than ...
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Rail Business UKUK firm wins rolling stock electronics export orders
EUROPE: British electronic and electro-mechanical component and systems supplier LPA Group has announced three export orders in the rail sector with a total value of £4m. SNCF Voyageurs has ordered bespoke interior LED lighting for retrofitting to regional and inter-city fleets over the next five years. ...
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Rail Business UKRedundant coal wagons to be converted for construction traffic
UK: WH Davis is to convert coal wagons owned by leasing company Porterbrook for use by Freightliner to transport aggregates. ’This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate what can be achieved by giving redundant fleets a purpose for the next 30-plus years’, said WH Davis Managing ...
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Rail Business UKTrain driver psychometric assessment standard updated
UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has updated the standard related to psychometric assessments in train driver selection, to provide greater clarity on the process and validity of psychometric tests and to increase the number of attempts that can be made at passing from two ...
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Rail Business UKUK railway news round-up
This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.
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Rail Business UKQuestions remain for the rail sector in English devolution plans
UK: The rail sector has welcomed the outline plans for local politicians to have greater control of passenger rail services which are set out in the government’s white paper on devolution in England, but questions remain about the future scope and structure.
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Rail Business UKMPs to investigate how rail investment pipelines could help the supply industry
UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee is to launch an inquiry into how the government could ensure a stable pipeline of projects and procurements to end ‘boom and bust’ in the supply industry and give passengers, staff, suppliers and investors more certainty about development priorities. ...
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Rail Business UKScottish diesel operations to continue to 2045
UK: The deadline for removing diesel powered passenger trains from the Scottish rail network has been put back from 2035 to 2045. The Scottish government is undertaking an update of the Rail Services Decarbonisation Action Plan which it published in July 2020 in collaboration with Network ...