Satellites help provide high-level estimates to lower railway electrification costs
UK: Electrification technology specialist Furrer+Frey has developed the Lineform.AI tool which uses data from an array of datasets as well as Airbus satellites to produce options for electrification with high-level cost estimates as well as embodied carbon data.
RMT calls for maintenance patrols to have better access to welfare facilities
UK: The RMT trade union has called on Network Rail to ensure that all maintenance patrol workers to have guaranteed access to adequate toilet and washing facilities, with documentation of suitable welfare arrangements in all Safe System of Work Packs.
Management course launch invokes spirit of British Rail graduate scheme
UK: The Chartered Institution of Railway Operators has launched a pilot management training programme designed to develop operational leaders with a whole-system understanding of the rail sector.
Network Rail to take over Barking terminal in effort to boost cross-Channel rail freight
UK: Network Rail and its property development company Platform4 are to take a long-term lease of the Barking Eurohub freight terminal in east London, and have begun discussions with companies interested in operating regular intermodal trains to the site via the Channel Tunnel.
Stations funded as Welsh rail prospectus sets out long-term aspirations
UK: The UK government has confirmed funding for seven new stations in Wales, including five so-called ’Burns stations’ on the South Wales main line proposed following cancellation of a major M4 motorway scheme.
Signalling: Welsh trial pilots low-cost train detection
Trials on a section of the Heart of Wales Line to detect trains approaching user-worked crossings are intended to pave the way for a suite of signalling applications for rural railways. Chris Jackson reports from Pantyffynnon.
Network Rail plans £450m Scottish electrification framework as Borders Railway works begin
UK: Network Rail has begun preliminary market engagement for a framework contract for a planned programme of 25 kV 50 Hz electrification in Scotland, as the first works are getting underway for the partial electrification of the Borders Railway.
HBC to build net-zero Maintenance Delivery Unit building in Sheffield
UKTram confirms board appointments
Infrastructure: Creating a 'living replica' of the Severn Tunnel
Alstom completes its largest-ever single UK resignalling project
South Eastern Railway to trial flood warning cameras at high-risk locations
Transport Secretary names next Network Rail and DFTO chairs
Alstom completes £49m signalling upgrade on the London to Portsmouth line
UK rail accident investigation body issues warning over reliance on remote condition monitoring technology
‘Five firsts’ celebrated at Tuxford as UK rail sector seeks role in hydrogen economy
Consolidated guidance issued for cranes operating near railways
Network Rail launches Platform4 to regenerate railway land
RSSB updates cross-industry Train Protection Strategy
Beaulieu Park station opens to support Chelmsford housing development