UK rail industry news – Page 3

  • Lumo open access train
    Rail Business UK

    Open access ‘at a crossroads’ as government sets out more stringent tests for approval

    2025-01-08T11:00:00Z

    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.

  • HS1 (Photo ORR)
    Rail Business UK

    Regulator orders HS1 Ltd to lower access charges

    2025-01-08T05:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Sizewell Trespass (Photo Network Rail)
    Rail Business UK

    Sizewell branch upgrading to support power station project

    2025-01-06T05:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • TransPennine Express Nova in service (Photo TPE)
    Rail Business UK

    Networking company enters the rail market with TransPennine Express win

    2025-01-03T05:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Alstom Avelia Horizon high speed train impression
    Rail Business UK

    UK firm wins rolling stock electronics export orders

    2025-01-02T05:00:00Z

    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. ...

  • Porterbook GBRf Zephir LOK 16.300 depot shunters
    Rail Business UK

    Low-emission depot shunters in services at steel works

    2024-12-24T05:00:00Z

    UK: GB Railfreight has put three Zephir LOK 16.300 depot shunters into service moving steel billets from an electric arc furnace to rolling mills at Celsa Steel’s Cardiff site. They are leased from Porterbrook, which said shunters with EU Stage V compliant diesel engines and able ...

  • Freightliner-wagon-conversion
    Rail Business UK

    Redundant coal wagons to be converted for construction traffic

    2024-12-23T05:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Razorsecure MoU
    Rail Business UK

    Rail cyber-resilience collaboration

    2024-12-20T11:00:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL: A memorandum of understanding to collaborate on enhancing the cyber-resilience of rail operations was signed by rail cybersecurity specialist RazorSecure, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EKE Electronics during the 18th UK-Japan Rail Working Group hosted by the Department for Transport in London on ...

  • Inside cab of 805011 on driver training run - 1205 Euston to Crewe 070624 TM6
    Rail Business UK

    Train driver psychometric assessment standard updated

    2024-12-20T05:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • Greater Anglia Orient Way depot (Photo Greater Anglia)
    Rail Business UK

    UK railway news round-up

    2024-12-19T05:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • Merseyrail Class 777 EMU at Headbolt station
    Rail Business UK

    Questions remain for the rail sector in English devolution plans

    2024-12-18T12:45:00Z

    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.

  • Palace of Westminster (Photo Steve Bidmead, Pixabay)
    Rail Business UK

    MPs to investigate how rail investment pipelines could help the supply industry

    2024-12-18T11:33:00Z

    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. ...

  • ScotRail Highland Explorer Class 153 and Class 156 (Photo ScotRail)
    Rail Business UK

    Scottish diesel operations to continue to 2045

    2024-12-18T11:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • ScotRail has formally begun the procurement of trainsets to replace the current fleet of 25 HST sets used on Inter7Cities services.
    Rail Business UK

    ScotRail begins HST replacement process

    2024-12-18T09:45:00Z

    UK: ScotRail has formally begun the procurement of trainsets to replace the current fleet of 25 HST sets used on Inter7City services. On behalf of Transport Scotland, the operator is seeking proposals for the supply of a single class of existing rolling stock to operate a ...

  • London Transport Museum
    Rail Business UK

    Skills Late to help young people kickstart transport careers

    2024-12-18T05:00:00Z

    UK: The London Transport Museum is to host a free Skills Late event on January 30 where people aged 16 to 25 and their friends and family can meet employers and learn about job opportunities in transport, engineering and infrastructure. Businesses highlighting their entry level vacancies, apprenticeships ...

  • Northumblerland Line event in Ashington (Photo Northern)
    Rail Business UK

    Northumberland Line service from Newcastle to Ashington launched

    2024-12-17T11:00:00Z

    UK: Cheers greeted the arrival of the first Northumberland Line passenger service at Ashington station on December 15, more than 60 years after services to Newcastle were withdrawn in November 1964 and the route became freight-only. Initially only the new stations at Ashington and Seaton Delaval ...

  • Google Street View London Underground station (Image TfL)
    Rail Business UK

    London stations added to Google Street View

    2024-12-17T05:00:00Z

    UK: Google Street View now includes 18 London rail and Underground stations, with a further 18 to be added by the end of the year. Google used 360° backpack cameras to create virtual representations of London’s busiest stations. These will help people plan journeys and more ...

  • S&B Paper Roll Ticketing_Detail_View
    Rail Business UK

    Greater Anglia expands paper roll ticketing

    2024-12-16T05:00:00Z

    UK: Following a trial backed by the Rail Delivery Group, a further 194 Scheidt & Bachmann ticket machines on Greater Anglia routes are to switch to using paper roll ticket instead of the traditional orange magnetic stripe cards. S&B worked with Nagels to develop the recyclable ...

  • Keele university (Photo Keele)
    Rail Business UK

    CIRO to launch rail MBA course with Keele University

    2024-12-13T11:00:00Z

    UK: The Chartered Institution of Railway Operators and Keele University are to launch a rail MBA programme in February 2025. This is designed to enable rail professionals to gain access to affordable and industry specific master’s level higher education. It will provide senior leader experience, combining ...

  • Passenger using wheelchair (Photo ORR)
    Rail Business UK

    Rail regulator seeks feedback on assessment of assistance to disabled passengers

    2024-12-13T05:00:00Z

    UK: The Office of Rail & Road is asking for views on its plans for annual assessments rating how train operators and Network Rail provide assistance to disabled passengers. The regulator said this would strengthen its ability to hold operators to account for poor performance, highlight ...