Rail Business UK – Page 140
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Rail Business UKRIA and Women In Rail launch pan-industry equality charter
UK: A pan-industry agreement to champion diversity, equality and inclusion across the rail sector has been launched by the Railway Industry Association and Women In Rail.
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Rail Business UKLeasing company takes on DMU heavy maintenance
UK: Responsibility for heavy maintenance, future maintenance optimisation and the enhancement of West Midlands Trains’ Bombardier Transportation Class 172 diesel multiple-units has been transferred from the operator to Porterbrook. The leasing company said this ‘new, more collaborative’ way of working would build on the quality and performance ...
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Rail Business UKDfT prepares ground for direct awards
UK: The Department for Transport has started preparations for the future of 10 English rail franchises with the publication of an OJEU Prior Information Notice on November 6 setting out its plans to directly award new public service contracts. The PIN covers train operations that are not ...
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Rail Business UKLondon Overground completes introduction of Class 710 EMUs
UK: The last two of 54 Class 710 Aventra electric multiple-units have entered service with London Overground, the operator has announced. Bombardier Transportation’s Derby plant supplied 45 of the 120 km/h Class 710 EMUs under a contract awarded in mid-2015 and further a nine ordered in December ...
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Metro Report InternationalDelivery of next batch of Manchester trams begins
UK: Greater Manchester’s Metrolink is to take delivery of the first of 27 additional M5000 high floor light rail vehicles this month, with entry into service planned by Christmas. Further trams are then expected to follow at three to four week intervals. The £72m order signed ...
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Rail Business UKUnipart acquires railway electronics company Comms Design
RETB radio signalling equipment designed and supplied by Comms Design Ltd is being fitted to the five Class 153 DMUs which Brodie Engineering is refurbishing as ‘active travel’ vehicles for ScotRail. UK: Unipart has acquired 100% of the share capital of Comms Design Ltd, saying the ...
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Rail Business UKTurbostar reshuffle conundrum
UK: East Midlands Railway has begun using the first of the Class 170 Turbostar diesel multiple-units which are due to be transferred from other operators, marking the start of its programme to modernise its regional fleet. Intended to replace Class 15x units, the Turbostars will initially ...
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Rail Business UKDigital railway research centre handed over
UK: A purpose-built railway engineering research centre at the University of Birmingham has been handed over by the contractors. The Centre of Excellence for Digital Systems forms part of the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research & Education. It has been developed through a collaboration between the ...
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Rail Business UKHull Trains and Grand Central to suspend services again
UK: Open access operators Hull Trains and Grand Central are to suspend services again as England enters a second period of coronavirus lockdown running for four weeks from November 5. The open access companies operate on a purely commercial basis, and were not entitled to the government ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail sets climate change targets
UK: Following on from its recently published long-term environmental sustainability strategy, Network Rail has committed to independently-verified Science-Based Targets to help in the process of climate change mitigation.
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In depthData & Analytics: Assessing investment choices in an uncertain future
Transport for London and Jacobs have developed a novel transport demand modelling tool to provide a more sophisticated response to the challenge of planning rail investment as the mobility sector enters an era of profound short- and long-term change.
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Rail Business UKFerrybridge to Goole resignalling contract awarded
UK: Network Rail has awarded Alstom a £28m contract to resignal the Ferrybridge – Goole line. The project will commence in 2021 with the renewal of six level crossings, including point machine conversions and civil works. Commissions is planned for summer 2023, with the closure of a ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London and government agree six-month funding package
UK: Transport for London confirmed on the morning of November 1 that an agreement had been reached for the Department for Transport to make further emergency funding available to address the forecast shortfall in passenger revenue as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This will ensure ...
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Rail Business UKAberdeen – Dundee line to reopen on November 3
UK: The line between Aberdeen and Dundee will reopen on November 3, after the completion of work to repair the railway following the derailment at Carmont near Stonehaven on August 12. Three people died in the derailment, and there was extensive damage to the track, bridge, ...
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Rail Business UKNetwork Rail signs ‘landmark’ wagon leasing contract
UK: Greenbrier Europe is to build 570 wagons which infrastructure Network Rail will lease from Wascosa under a 10-year deal which includes maintenance by GB Railfreight. The contract, announced on October 29, includes Falcon box wagons, JNA wagons for transporting bulk ballast and Flex Freight System modular ...
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Rail Business UKTransport for the North looks to a changed future as ridership recovery slows
UK: The difficulty of persuading people back onto public transport and what this means for future service provision were the underlying themes of the most recent Transport for the North board meeting.
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Metro Report InternationalLondon Underground deploys UV light escalator sanitisers
UK: As part of bespoke cleaning measures during the coronavirus pandemic, Transport for London is installing more than 200 UV light devices to sanitise the handrails on 110 London Underground escalators. This follows a six-week trial launched in May which found that ...
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Rail Business UKAurora brand for East Midlands Railway Class 810 inter-city fleet
UK: East Midlands Railway has selected Aurora as the brand name for the fleet of Class 810 electro-diesel inter-city trainsets which Hitachi Rail is to supply for use on the Midland Main Line between London, Nottingham and Sheffield from 2023. The name was announced on October 27 ...