UK rail industry news – Page 75
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Rail Business UKOne Big Circle expands its radius with InnoTrans presence
UK: One Big Circle is exhibiting at InnoTrans for the first time, demonstrating the safety, cost and time-saving benefits of its Automated Intelligent Video Review video capture and transmission system to an international audience in the Railway Industry Association’s UK Pavilion. The Bristol-based company’s AIVR range ...
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Rail Business UKAvanti West Coast hires train to boost capacity during period of mourning
UK: With its drivers continuing to decline to work on their rest days, Avanti West Coast has worked with charter operator Locomotive Services Ltd to provided additional capacity into London Euston to support the large number of people wishing to visit the capital to pay their ...
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Rail Business UKMerlin conjures up better access to rail operating information
UK: Software company ITAL has launched Merlin, a cloud-based platform designed to provide railway control rooms with a single interface for managing rolling stock, crew and schedules to support more efficient decision-making during complex disruption. ITAL said it aims to address the problems which can occur ...
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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 UKRailway bridge refurbished to provide a better active travel environment
UK: Old York Road rail-over-road bridge close to Wandsworth Town station in London has been refurbished by Dyer & Butler in partnership with CC Infrastructure, Armadillo Lighting, Cobra Traffic Management, Four Tees, AC Construction and Skill Scaffold. The corroded steel deck plates, flow forge and four-foot ...
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Rail Business UKCrossrail Building Management System contract
UK: Telent Technology Services has awarded Sella Controls a contract to supply a building management system as part of the continuing work on the Crossrail project. The building management system will provide Transport for London subsidiary Rail for London with a centralised platform to monitor assets, ...
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Rail Business UKSoftware supports production of complex steelwork for Coventry station
UK: Structural Fabrications Ltd supplied principal contractor Buckingham Group Contracting with the structural and secondary steelwork, curtain walling and cladding for the footbridges, staircases, lift shafts and platform canopies for the modernisation of Coventry station. All the structural steelwork was fabricated at SFL’s headquarters in Derby, ...
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Rail Business UKADComms appoints Coleman James as recruitment partner
UK: Transport telecoms technology company ADComms has appointed specialist rail and built environment recruiter Coleman James as its exclusive recruitment partner under a three-year deal. This follows rapid growth for ADComms at its Scunthorpe, Liverpool and London locations. Coleman James said its rail consultants will recruit ...
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Rail Business UKRail industry plans for Queen’s state funeral crowds
UK: The rail industry has activated its plans to handle the crowds expected at ceremonial events associated with the state funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II, and is advising people to check journey details before travelling. Network Rail said transport providers have well-developed plans in ...
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Rail Business UKProject completion and a driver training academy in Transport for the North’s priorities
UK: The Transport for the North board has written to the new Prime Minister Liz Truss setting out its key priorities to boost economic growth in the north of England. For the rail sector, TfN calls for: major projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail and ...
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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 UKAnne-Marie Trevelyan appointed as Secretary of State for Transport
UK: Anne-Marie Trevelyan was appointed as Secretary of State for Transport in incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss’s cabinet on September 6. Trevelyan commented ‘transport is crucial to our lives — bringing people together, creating jobs and connecting the UK with the world. Looking forward to getting ...
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Rail Business UKTransPennine Express amends West Coast Main Line services
UK: TransPennine Express is to temporarily amend its West Coast Main Line services from September 12 ‘to provide greater stability and certainty to our customers’. This follows repeated disruption this year, with passengers facing regular full or part cancellations announced the previous evening or on the ...
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Rail Business UKCity regions outline transport priorities for next Prime Minister
UK: The Urban Transport Group network of city transport authorities has set out its three priorities for the new Prime Minister. These are: securing the future of affordable local public transport networks through a long-term revenue settlement which is simplified, enhanced and devolved; work with ...
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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 UKAvanti West Coast Managing Director to leave
UK: Phil Whittingham is to step down as Managing Director of Avanti West Coast with effect from September 15 ‘in order to pursue other executive leadership opportunities’, the West Coast Main Line inter-city passenger operator’s parent company First Trenitalia announced on September 2. Whittingham joined Virgin ...
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Rail Business UKConsultation on incorporating TSI changes into post-Brexit standards
UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board is seeking industry views on the extent to which revisions to EU Technical Specifications for Interoperability should be reflected in National Technical Specification Notices for Great Britain. NTSNs define the technical and operational criteria that rolling stock, infrastructure and ...
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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 UKMarylebone statue and train naming commemorate Adrian Shooter’s rail career
UK: A statue of Adrian Shooter was unveiled at London’s Marylebone station on August 30 to mark his contribution to the railway business over a period of more than half a century. Shooter was Managing Director of Chiltern Railways from 1994 until ...
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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 ...