UK urban rail industry news – Page 7
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Metro Report International
Transport for London needs time to consider funding proposal
UK: Transport for London announced on July 28 that its extraordinary funding agreement, which was due to expire the same day, had been extended until midday on August 3, to give it time to discuss the government’s draft proposal for a long-term funding settlement. Mayor of ...
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Transport for London receives draft proposal for funding settlement
UK: The Department for Transport provided Transport for London with a draft proposal for a long-term funding settlement on the evening of July 22. The most recent extension of TfL’s extraordinary funding and financing agreement is due to expire on July 28. TfL said it would ...
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Barking Riverside extension opens
UK: The 4·5 km Barking Riverside extension of the London Overground network opened on July 18. London Overground concessionaire Arriva Rail London is now operating four trains per hour as an extension of its Gospel Oak – Barking route, offering a 7 min journey time between ...
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Very Light Rail overhead charger commissioned at Dudley test facility
UK: A rapid battery charger which supplier Furrer+Frey says is the first of its kind for a rail application has been commissioned at the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre in Dudley. This will enable testing of the automated rapid charging capability of the prototype ...
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West Midlands Metro extension to Edgbaston opens
UK: The 1·4 km second phase of the Birmingham Westside light rail extension opened on July 17, adding three stops at Brindleyplace, Five Ways and the Edgbaston Village terminus. Services run every 12 to 15 min, with peak time frequencies to be increased as more of ...
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Tyne & Wear Metro simulator delivered
UK: Tyne & Wear Metro has taken delivery of a Corys full-size cab simulator to train staff on its incoming fleet of trains to be supplied by Stadler. The simulator replicates the network and all 60 stations, as well as weather conditions such as snow or ...
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‘Unsatisfactory progress’ means no long-term Transport for London funding agreement
UK: Another short-term extension of Transport for London’s extraordinary funding agreement with the government was announced on July 13, the day the previous extension was due to expire. The latest extension of the fourth of the funding packages introduced after ridership collapsed during the coronavirus pandemic ...
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UKTram publishes light rail rallying call
UK: Light rail industry association UKTram has published a ‘bold and ambitious’ strategy which it says makes ‘a compelling case’ for tramways and similar transit systems. The document details the benefits that existing systems have brought to cities where they operate, and calls for closer collaboration ...
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London Underground signalling design contract awarded
UK: Transport for London has appointed Costain to design enhancements to the signalling infrastructure on London Underground’s Piccadilly Line. Costain will work with TfL’s design team to ensure that the signalling between Heathrow Airport and Barons Court is compatible with both the existing trains and the ...
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Unicard and Amdocs announce account-based ticketing platform
TICKETING: Unicard and Amdocs are co-operating to use their account-based ticketing and cloud-based payment platforms to offer a multi-mode and multi-operator ‘tap-in, tap-out’ ticketing system for rail, tram, bus and micromobility services. Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology & Head of Strategy at Amdocs, said the ...
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Paragon ID acquires UrbanThings
UK: Ticketing, payment and identification company Paragon ID has acquired UrbanThings, which develops passenger information, vehicle tracking, digital ticketing and analytical systems. The deal was announced at the Transport Ticketing Global trade fair in London on June 28, with Paragon ID commenting that UrbanThings had key ...
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Still no long-term funding deal for Transport for London
UK: Transport for London’s current extraordinary funding agreement with the Department for Transport has been extended to July 13. The extension was announced in the late afternoon of June 24, hours before the agreement in place since February 26 was about to expire; this was the ...
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London Underground seeks renewable energy
UK: London Underground has called tenders for a long-term contract for the supply of electricity from renewable sources, as part of a wider scheme for the Greater London Authority group to move to renewable energy by 2030. Transport for London as a whole uses around 1·6 ...
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Tactile paving now at all Tyne & Wear Metro stations
UK: Tyne & Wear Metro has installed tactile paving at a further 12 stations, meaning all 60 of its stations now have a visual and physical alert to the presence of the platform edges.
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Cardiff Northwest Corridor tram-train report published
UK: Proposals have been published for the development of a tram-train network to serve housing developments on the Northwest Corridor between Cardiff and Llantrisant. Commissioned from transport consultancy Cogitamus, a report making the case for the project was launched on June 10 by Mark Drakeford, Senedd ...
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London Underground lets power supply upgrading contract
UK: Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £50m contract to undertake traction power supply upgrading works on London Underground’s Piccadilly Line to support the introduction of new Siemens Mobility trainsets from 2025. The works will include the renewal and replacement of high voltage and low voltage ...
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London Underground’s Bank station reopens as new tunnel completed
UK: The Bank branch of London Underground’s Northern Line reopened on May 16 after a 17-week closure as part of a complex £700m project to provide a 40% increase in capacity at Bank station. The interlinked Bank and Monument station complex in the heart of the ...
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‘Be smart around trams’ safety videos launched
UK: The Light Rail Safety & Standards Board has launched a series of ‘be smart around trams’ animated videos, commissioned from Creative Star to provide safety tips for passengers. The videos can be used by operators to complement their own safety campaigns on social ...
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BowTie supports West Midlands metro expansion project
UK: The Midland Metro Alliance which is expanding the West Midlands Metro light rail network has used BowTieXP software to develop a comprehensive database of risk assessments on the Edgbaston Village and Wolverhampton station extensions. Developed for the Light Rail Safety Standards Board, the software is ...
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Commonwealth Games target for restoring full West Midlands Metro tram service
UK: West Midlands Mayor Andy Street tells Metro Report International that he has met CAF CEO Javier Martínez Ojinaga to discuss the discovery of cracks on Birmingham’s trams.