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Rail Business UKMayors’ Birmingham – Manchester rail link promises 85% of HS2 benefits
UK: Plans for a Midlands-North West Rail Link have been set out by the consortium appointed by the mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.
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Rail Business UKHitachi to develop multimodal journey planning and booking system for Wales
UK: Transport for Wales has awarded Hitachi a contract to provide a bespoke Mobility-as-a-Service digital planning and booking system covering public transport in Wales. The app and back-office will cover rail, local bus, TrawsCymru regional bus and Fflecsi demand-responsive bus services, as well as micromobility bikes ...
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Metro Report InternationalContactless payment expansion on hold following TfL cybersecurity incident
UK: The expansion of pay-as-you-go contactless payment to 47 more c2c, London Northwestern Railway, Southeastern and South Western Railway stations has been put on hold because of the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Transport for London. TfL is working with the Department for Transport and the Rail ...
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Rail Business UKGemini completes £10m GWR Turbo fleet refresh
UK: Gemini Rail Services in Wolverton has completed a £10m three-year internal refresh of Great Western Railway’s fleet of Class 165/166 Turbo regional and suburban diesel multiple-units. The 57 two and three-car DMUs leased from Angel Trains have had a comprehensive interior makeover, including new floors ...
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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 UKMedlog acquires Maritime Group
UK: Swiss-based global logistics company Medlog has acquired Maritime Transport, which provides rail and road logistics services. The company offers container transport and operates open-access multi-user rail freight terminals at Wakefield, Manchester, Tilbury, Mossend, Northampton, Tamworth, Birmingham and Kegworth. The sale was completed on September 2. ...
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Rail Business UKRIA calls for 2024 budget to invest in rail to drive future economic growth
UK: Chancellor Rachel Reeves is urged ‘to see UK rail as an investment in the economy rather than just a cost’ in the Railway Industry Association’s submission to the Treasury ahead of the budget on October 30. RIA calls on the Chancellor to bring forward a ...
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Metro Report InternationalFour suppliers invited to bid to renew Croydon tram fleet
UK: Four companies have pre-qualified for a potential contract to replace the oldest trams on the London Trams network centred on Croydon. Transport for London announced on September 10 that it had issued invitations to tender to Alstom, CAF, Hitachi Rail and Stadler Valencia. Any order ...
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Rail Business UKBritain’s longest railway viaduct structurally complete
UK: Construction of High Speed 2’s Colne Valley Viaduct, being constructed close to the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire, has reached a key milestone, with the installation of the final bridge segment on September 5. The 3·4 km long viaduct, which project promoter HS2 Ltd claims ...
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Rail Business UKFreightliner offers single container transport by ‘carbon reduced’ trains
UK: Freightliner has launched its ECO90 booking service which enables customers of any size to reduce their carbon emissions by sending as little as one container on trains powered by alternative fuels. The trains currently use hydrotreated vegetable oil, and Freightliner told Rail Business UK that ...
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Rail Business UKTransPennine Express makes progress with driver training and staff recruitment
UK: TransPennine Express Managing Director Chris Jackson says good progress is being with tackling the operator’s backlog of driver training, which was a key issue behind the service reductions brought in with the December 2023 timetable. However, it will not be completed until next year. ‘This ...
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Rail Business UKSpencer Group to build Greater Anglia wheel lathe facility
UK: Spencer Group has designed and will now build a wheel lathe facility at Greater Anglia’s Clacton depot. This will be first time Greater Anglia has had its own permanent wheel lathe, reducing the time trains are out of service. Enabling works for the 5 000 ...
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Metro Report InternationalTransport for London says cybersecurity incident does not impact services
UK: ‘There remains no impact to our public transport services and no evidence that any customer data has been compromised’, Transport for London said on September 6 when it issued an update on an ongoing cybersecurity incident. ‘We continually monitor who is accessing our systems to ...
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Rail Business UKTransPennine Express aims to get more out of its fleet
UK: TransPennine Express is seeking to achieve higher levels of performance from its fleet, its Fleet, Safety & Service Delivery Director Paul Staples explained when Rail Business UK recently visited Arwick depot. The operator says it is also ‘anticipating great things’ from the trial conversion of a Hitachi trainset to battery hybrid power.
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Rail Business UKAI project aims to prevent level crossing safety incidents
UK: Purple Transform has been awarded Innovate UK funding to develop and trial the use of artificial intelligence to alert staff to potential safety incidents at level crossings. The Levelling Up Crossings project will use Purple Transform’s proprietary SiYtE machine vision and learning platform to scan ...
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In depthComment: Contrasting approaches to fixing things
The transport ministers of Britain and Germany are taking contrasting approaches to addressing the problems facing their railways. Dr Volker Wissing believes management reorganisation cannot solve DB’s problems, but his counterpart Louise Haigh is taking the opposite view with Labour’s rail reforms. Nick Kingsley suggests they could learn much from each other.
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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 UKHaigh gives the go-ahead for Shadow Great British Railways
UK: Secretary of State for Transport Louise Haigh has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Shadow Great British Railways, ahead of the future primary legislation which will be needed to create Great British Railways as an arm’s length body overseeing both train services and ...
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Rail Business UKScotRail to replace inter-city HST fleet
UK: ScotRail is to procure trains to replace the ageing High Speed Train fleet used on routes between Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness, the Scottish government announced on September 3. ScotRail’s procurement and fleet teams are working with its parent body Scottish Rail Holdings, Transport Scotland ...
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Rail Business UKBill to take passenger train operations into the public sector makes progress
UK: The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill received its third reading in the House of Commons on September 3, as the first major piece of legislation to pass through the Commons under the recently-elected Labour government. The bill would end the award of passenger train ...