TransPennine Express confirms plans to ‘build back’ its timetable
UK: TransPennine Express has confirmed that it expects to begin reinstating services to meet commitments it made when it announced temporary timetable reductions in December 2023.
Battery traction trial ahead as TransPennine Express fortunes improve
UK: Overcrowding and short-notice cancellations at state-owned TransPennine Express have declined since the December timetable change, prompting Managing Director Chris Jackson to suggest the operator is in a ‘better place’.
Long-term and overseas opportunities for rail apprentices
UK: The Transpennine Route Upgrade programme is ‘an investment in people’ and ‘it really is important that these projects leave a legacy of skills’, Rail Minister Huw Merriman said when he announced the latest tranche of funding.
Latest tranche of Transpennine Route Upgrade funding confirmed
UK: The release of a further £3·9bn tranche of funding for the ongoing £11·5bn Transpennine Route Upgrade was confirmed by Rail Minister Huw Merriman on December 4.
Signalling: Visualising designs at an earlier stage
Most signalling schemes across the sector are designed using 2D schematic plans. But this approach can make it difficult to visualise what drivers in the train cab will see, and when and how they will react. To address this and other challenges, Arup has created a signalling visualisation tool that is being deployed as part of Network Rail’s Transpennine Route Upgrade.
Post-Covid rail sector must understand what it does best, says Haines
UK: ‘We in the rail sector must be objective and honest about what we are good at’, Network Rail Chief Executive Andrew Haines told a conference in Birmingham on October 3, as he reflected on how the industry can plot its way through the uncertainty of the post-Covid period.
Research expertise used to optimise Transpennine Route Upgrade designs
TransPennine Express to stop using loco-hauled push-pull trains in December
Immersive training centre to increase rail worker safety
‘Fully staffed’ TransPennine Express ‘needs to become simpler’
Rail Minister commits to trans-Pennine electrification ‘in full’ and HS2 to Manchester
Manchester rail plans rethought as ‘ambition wasn’t able to be delivered’
Locally guided £72m rail plan aims to unblock northern rail capacity
From aircraft carriers to the Transpennine Route Upgrade
AI to improve Transpennine Route Upgrade project scheduling
Rail projects included in Treasury’s list of schemes for acceleration
‘On Track to Better’ Transpennine Route Upgrade awareness campaign launched
Full electrification in scope as Transpennine Route Upgrade makes progress
Huddersfield to Dewsbury route upgrading approved
Interview: ‘Give us the infrastructure and we will invest to grow’