Railway Industry Association news – Page 3
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Rail Business UKElectrification priorities in northern England
UK: The Railway Industry Association North has published Greener, Faster, Better, setting out which routes in northern England should be prioritised for electrification and where battery or hydrogen could be appropriate. This was one of the key recommendations of RIA North’s previous Building the North’s New ...
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Rail Business UKGovernment is committed to supporting rail exports, UK suppliers told at InnoTrans
UK: More than 120 British suppliers are present at the world’s largest rail industry trade fair, which is being held in Berlin this week.
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Rail Business UKRIA urges incoming Prime Minister to adopt six-point rail plan
UK: The Railway Industry Association has set out six key priorities for the future of rail following confirmation on September 5 that Liz Truss is to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister.
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Rail Business UKDon’t base future plans on the pandemic, says RIA
UK: The Railway Industry Association has called on the Treasury and policymakers not to base 30-year rail programmes and ridership forecasts on the period of the pandemic, but instead to plan ’increased investment for the growth in capacity we are going to need in the years ...
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Rail Business UKStrikes will not undermine industry reform programme, says Hendy
UK: The industry will not back away from its modernisation and cost reduction drive despite the threat of strike action this summer, Network Rail Chair Sir Peter Hendy told the Railway Industry Association Innovation Conference in Nottingham on April 27. More than 40 000 RMT members ...
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Rail Business UKWilliams sees ‘vast opportunities’ for the private sector under Great British Railways
UK: There will be ‘vast opportunities’ for the private sector to shape the rail sector as the development of Great British Railways gathers pace, Keith Williams, author of the Williams-Shapps Review into rail reform, told the Railway Industry Association’s Innovation Conference. GBR is being established ‘as ...
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Rail Business UKMixed picture on railway decarbonisation progress
UK: The Railway Industry Association has found a ‘mixed picture’ when reviewing the government’s progress in meeting the rail decarbonisation recommendations made in the House of Commons Transport Committee’s Trains fit for the future? report which was published in March last year. ...
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NewsUK export financing to support completion of Ankara – Izmir high speed corridor
TURKEY: UK Export Finance has agreed to guarantee £1·8bn through its Buyer Credit Scheme to support construction of the Polatlı – Izmir high speed line, which will create a more direct route between the capital and Turkey’s third largest city.
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Rail Business UKSuppliers call for Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline update
UK: The Railway Industry Association has expressed concern that it is now more than 800 days since the government last updated the Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline. The government had said an updated list of planned network improvements would be published annually. ‘This list of rail upgrades ...
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Rail Business UKMore needs to be done to promote rail innovation, says RIA
UK: There is increasing confidence amongst rail professionals that the industry is innovative, a survey by the Railway Industry Association has found, but more needs to be done to celebrate and promote innovation in the sector. The report compares the results of two surveys of rail ...
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Rail Business UKExports strategy highlights infrastructure opportunities and tradeshow programme
UK: The government’s exports strategy published on November 17 highlights British infrastructure expertise and includes a ‘bigger and better targeted’ programme to support SMEs in attending overseas trade exhibitions such as InnoTrans. The strategy includes an Infrastructure Exports:UK initiative to bring together government and industry in ...
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Rail Business UKRail supply industry confidence returns to 2019 levels
UK: Confidence in the rail supply industry has returned to pre-2019 levels according to the Railway Industry Association, which commissioned Savanta to undertake a survey of 265 rail industry leaders during October. This found that: optimism about the supply industry has returned to 2019 levels ...
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Rail Business UKUK rail exports leadership group launched
UK: The Railway Industry Association has launched a RIA Exports Leadership Group, bringing together senior figures from UK-based rail supply companies to share their experiences of exporting goods and services and to offer advice and support. ‘It is particularly important at this time that ...
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Rail Business UKRailway Industry Association to launch regional offering
UK: The Railway Industry Association is to develop a Nations & Regions network to enhance its activities outside London. The six areas will cover Scotland, Wales & Western, Northern Ireland, North, Midlands & Eastern and London & South. Rail businesses will be able to draw on ...
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Rail Business UKReforms must address rail skills shortfall, says NSAR Chair
UK: The rail sector will need to recruit 34 000 additional staff by 2025 ‘to match the changing skills agenda’, according to HS1 Ltd Chief Executive Dyan Crowther, who is also the current Chair of the National Skills Academy for Rail. Attracting a broader ...
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Rail Business UKRIA seeks commitments on future rail spending
UK: ‘I am very, very positive about the future’, insisted Railway Industry Association Chief Executive Darren Caplan, speaking at the opening of the association’s new offices in Westminster on September 2. While the UK rail sector had been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, Caplan suggested ...
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Rail Business UKMinister opens RIA’s Westminster hub
The Railway Industry Association’s new offices in Westminster were formally opened by Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris on September 2.
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Rail Business UKTransport for London joins project reference scheme
UK: Transport for London has joined the Rail Supply Group’s export reference scheme which provides simplified project references for suppliers who are seeking to sell their products or services overseas. Network Rail and HS2 Ltd already participate. ‘At the Rail Supply Group we’ve been working closely ...
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Rail Business UKTrade fair support is essential for meeting rail export targets, says RIA
UK: The Railway Industry Association has called on the Department for International Trade to continue assisting small businesses with attending overseas industry events, following the cancellation of the Tradeshow Access Programme which provides grants to SMEs exhibiting at trade fairs including InnoTrans, AusRail and Trako. RIA ...
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Rail Business UKIndustry welcomes electrification and modal shift commitments in transport decarbonisation plan
UK: Commitments to electrification, network expansion and modal shift are included in the Decarbonising transport: a better, greener Britain plan published by the government on July 14, along with the selective deployment of hydrogen and battery trains. ‘Transport decarbonisation is a dull way of describing something ...