UK rail industry news – Page 61
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Rail Business UKRoutes into Rail highlights rail career opportunities
UK: The Routes into Rail website which was launched to help address the sector’s skills gap and workforce shortfall has been relaunched, targeting school leavers, graduates, parents, careers advisers and people leaving the military. Routes into Rail is a sector-wide initiative launched in 2020 to be ...
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Rail Business UKAsset management facility opened at Long Marston
UK: Porterbrook has spent £3m converting existing sheds at its Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre to provide space for rolling stock maintenance, modification, upgrading and acceptance activities. With full road and rail access, the Asset Management Facility provides three well-lit pit roads ...
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Rail Business UKGoole rolling stock component facility opened
UK: Siemens Mobility has opened a £7m components facility at its Goole site for the maintenance of train and tram parts including gearboxes, traction motors, fans and HVAC. The 4 000 m2 components facility was built by local contractor GMI to replace ...
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Rail Business UKTimetable confirmation could be reduced from 12 to eight weeks ahead
UK: The Office of Rail & Road is seeking feedback on the impact on passengers and other users of potentially changing the deadline for Network Rail to confirm timetables from 12 to eight weeks before a train runs. The proposal is to remove the reference to ...
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Rail Business UKSeatfrog secures £6m investment for European expansion
UK: Ticketing app developer Seatfrog has secured £6m of investment to support planned expansion across Europe. The growth funding round was backed by investors Pembroke, Praetura and Octopus Ventures, and advised by FinnCap’s Private Growth Capital team. Seatfrog launched in 2018, initially offering a way for ...
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Rail Business UKPrivate sector invited to tender for Global Centre of Rail Excellence stake
UK: Pre-qualified organisations have been invited to tender to take a majority stake in the Welsh government-owned company which is developing the Global Centre of Rail Excellence in South Wales. The procurement process began in January, and the pre-qualified bidders have now progressed to the next ...
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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 UKScottish Rail Holdings board members appointed
UK: On April 26 Scotland’s Minister for Transport Kevin Stewart announced the appointment of two non-executive directors to the board of Scottish Rail Holdings, the non-departmental public body wholly owned by the Scottish government which acts as the owning group for train operator ScotRail. Richard Cairns ...
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Rail Business UKStation vending machines fitted with ‘living walls’
UK: ‘Living walls’ which can be attached to vending machines are being tested at Bournemouth station by South Western Railway, Decorum Vending, Regency Design and plant supplier PHS Greenleaf. The small, self-sufficient, vertical gardens are designed to thrive in all locations, whether in sunlight or shade. ...
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Rail Business UKScotRail to carry more bikes to Mallaig
UK: ScotRail has increased its capacity for carrying bicycles on the West Highland line with the introduction of Highland Explorer DMUs on services to and from Mallaig.
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Rail Business UKClass 802 maintenance moves to Plymouth as quest for better availability goes on
UK: Great Western Railway, Eversholt Rail and Hitachi Rail are to extend their maintenance partnership covering 36 Class 802 inter-city trainsets, with work to be transferred to the GWR depot at Laira in Plymouth.
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Rail Business UKFreightliner creates ERTMS training academy
UK: Freightliner has developed a rail freight training academy in Ispwich to support the roll out of ERTMS. The operator has leased the seventh floor of MCR Property Group’s St Vincent House office building, which offered ‘a blank canvas within which to create a unique space ...
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Rail Business UKConcrete sleeper plant expanded
UK: Cemex has completed a ‘significant’ investment to increase the capacity and capabilities of its concrete switch and crossing bearer plant at Somercoates in Derbyshire. The expansion will enable the site to produce an additional 18 000 linear metres of bearers every year. The existing stressing ...
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Rail Business UKHinckley freight terminal plan moves forward
UK: The Planning Inspectorate is to review proposals for the development of a rail freight interchange and distribution hub at Hinckley in Leicestershire.
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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 UKHitachi partnership to underpin GCRE’s net zero aim
UK: The Global Centre of Rail Excellence has agreed a technology development partnership with Hitachi, and procured a Static Frequency Converter to support planned electrification of the railway test facility.
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Rail Business UKLong Marston hosts Network Rail major incident training exercise
UK: Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre has hosted a Network Rail major incident training exercise which replicated an collision between a train and a road vehicle. During two separate weeks in March, more than 300 people took part in the National ...
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Rail Business UKCost increases kill Isle of Grain passenger service proposal
UK: Plans to reintroduce a passenger service on the freight-only Isle of Grain branch on the Hoo Peninsula have been put on hold, with Medway Council citing ‘high inflation, significantly increased construction costs and pressures on public spending’. In 2019 Housing Infrastructure Fund support for upgrading ...
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Rail Business UKDevizes station would need to be part of wider rail plan
UK: The construction of a Devizes Gateway station at Lydeway is unlikely to represent value for money as a standalone project, but it could be viable as part of a wider rail improvement programme, a study has concluded. The feasibility study undertaken by Wiltshire Council, Devizes ...
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Rail Business UKClass 99 locomotive maintenance contract awarded
UK: Stadler has been awarded a contract to provide full maintenance and servicing of the 30 Class 99 six-axle electro-diesel locomotives ordered by leasing company Beacon Rail for use by GB Railfreight. The service contract will start once the first loco has been handed over in ...