All articles by Rail Business UK – Page 46
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Rail Business UKRail Charging Facility to enable battery trains to use local power supplies
UK: Porterbrook has announced a £1·7m deal with Siemens Mobility to purchase a Rail Charging Converter, a modular and containerised system developed to enable a battery-powered train to be recharged from standard local power supply cables in places where 25 kV 50 Hz overhead electrification is ...
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Rail Business UKMayors launch group to study improved Birmingham – Manchester rail links
UK: West Midlands Mayor Andy Street and his Greater Manchester counterpart Andy Burnham have convened a private sector group to look at options to improve rail connections between the Midlands and the north of England. The mayors said the Birmingham – Manchester corridor running through Wolverhampton ...
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Rail Business UKEbbw Vale line enhancement programme completed
UK: Network Rail has completed a two-year project to upgrade the Ebbw Vale line to enable the operation of hourly direct trains to Newport from the December 10 timetable change; these will run in addition to the existing hourly service to Cardiff. The Ebbw Vale line ...
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Rail Business UKTikTok fare evader fined
UK: A fare evader who shared tips on TikTok on how to try to avoid paying for train journeys has been caught and fined. East Midlands Railway said she had shared numerous videos boasting about how she avoided paying and urged followers to do the same. An investigation with ...
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Rail Business UKRail Business Awards shortlist announced
UK: More than 40 companies and organisations have been shortlisted for the 26th Rail Business Awards, recognising the achievements of the UK rail sector over the past 12 months.
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Rail Business UKHybrid satellite and terrestrial communications for rail
UK: Technology consultancy CGI, satellite operator Eutelsat OneWeb and on-train connectivity supplier Icomera are running trials to demonstrate how constellations of low-earth orbit satellite and terrestrial communications networks could provide seamless, low-latency broadband on the rail network. The trial is connected to the Satellites ...
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Rail Business UKPay-as-you-go in Cornwall
UK: Smartcard-based pay-as-you-go payment has been introduced on journeys between Penzance and Par.
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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 UKCall for consensus on infrastructure investment in northern England
UK: The Trades Union Congress and Northern Powerhouse Partnership group of business and civic leaders have called for a cross-party consensus on infrastructure investment.
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Rail Business UKMoorgate branch ETCS goes live
UK: Revenue-earning suburban services have started to use ETCS Level 2 over London’s Northern City Line from Finsbury Park to Moorgate.
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Rail Business UKUK rail freight still playing catch-up, warns Shoveller
UK: Britain’s rail freight sector has work to do to catch up with road haulage in the race to digitalise its operations, according to Tim Shoveller, CEO of Freightliner’s parent company Genesee & Wyoming’s UK and European operations.
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Rail Business UKEast West Rail and West Yorkshire mass transit mentioned in Autumn Statement
UK: The government said in its Autumn Statement that it is continuing to progress with the East West Rail scheme linking Oxford and Cambridge and is to provide £2·5bn for a West Yorkshire mass transit network.
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Rail Business UKLow Vision Rehabilitation students trained at ScotRail station
UK: Students from Glasgow Caledonian University’s Graduate Diploma in Low Vision Rehabilitation took part in a practical training session at Milngavie station to get hands-on experience of teaching visually impaired people how to access the railway safely. The students were provided with the knowledge and ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail awards East Kilbride electrification contracts
UK: Network Rail has awarded the main works contracts for the East Kilbride Enhancement Project, which includes electrification of the line near Glasgow. The announcement on November 22 follows the confirmation of Scottish government funding in September, The contracts totalling £61·5m have been awarded to Story ...
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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 UKEurostar depot equipped with moveable overhead electrification
UK: Electrification specialist Furrer+Frey has completed a project to install moveable conductor bar at Eurostar’s Temple Mills depot in east London. A total of 1·5 km of movable overhead has been installed on the eight depot tracks. It can be moved out of the ...
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Rail Business UKFour options under consideration for Wisbech rail service
UK: There is a ‘strong strategic case’ for reinstating passenger services to Wisbech, but the ‘art of the possible’ will be key, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority has said following a meeting with Network Rail to discuss an ongoing study of options. The Combined ...
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NewsMerseyside rail devolution MoU signed
UK: A memorandum of understanding has been signed for discussions which could lead to further devolution of control of the rail network in Merseyside and collaboration to deliver a ‘fully integrated’ public transport system. The MoU was signed on November 16 by Secretary of State ...
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Rail Business UKElectrification hopes sidelined in RSSB sustainability strategy
UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a Sustainable Rail Blueprint, which it says will support the rail industry in making progress on environmental and social sustainability challenges. According to RSSB, the industry faces a challenge not just to deliver net ...
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Rail Business UKBradford station study
UK: The Department for Transport has announced £400 000 of funding from the previously-announced West Yorkshire Devolution deal to ‘kickstart’ master planning for a proposed new station in Bradford. The work will consider how a new station could best support regeneration and maximise the potential to ...