All Rail Business UK articles – Page 7

  • Students using VR headsets, Network Rail (1)-2_cropped
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-05-09T04:00:00Z

    Network Rail has awarded COWI a contract to develop engineering designs for works at Stalybridge, Scout and Standedge tunnels as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade. This includes W12 gauge clearance and electrification including 1·7 km of slab track installation, and drainage and geotechnical work. Network ...

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    Retailers says competition can improve train ticketing

    2024-05-08T14:26:00Z

    UK: Representatives of independent ticket retailer Trainline and distribution technology company SilverRail have been questioned by the House of Commons Transport Committee as part of its scrutiny of the government’s draft Rail Reform Bill.

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    Train operator obtains Communication Accessible accreditation

    2024-05-08T04:00:00Z

    UK: Communication Access UK has accredited East Midlands Railway as being Communication Accessible. This follows the train operator’s efforts to provide enhanced communication choices for customers, and to provide staff with the skills to utilise assistive technology effectively. EMR has introduced TALK cards for staff and ...

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    Five things the next government needs to do provide rail capacity and connectivity

    2024-05-07T16:06:00Z

    UK: The High Speed Rail Group has published its High Speed Rail: Exploiting the Potential report, setting out five things it believes the next government should do to maximise the potential of high speed rail to provide new capacity and connectivity. The recommendations are to: ...

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    Accessibility Advisory Panel outlines priority issues for disabled passengers

    2024-05-07T04:00:00Z

    UK: Top priorities for disabled passengers have been set out by the accessibility Advisory Panel which East West Railway Co established to help inform the design and construction of the future Oxford to Cambridge rail corridor. The panel’s priorities include: accessible toilets on trains and ...

  • Birmingham New Street station concourse departure board
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    Dashboard to facilitate more efficient use of the rail network

    2024-05-06T04:00:00Z

    UK: Industry regulator the Office of Rail & Road has published a track access dashboard which it hopes will help Network Rail and train operators make more efficient use of the network. The dashboard gives an overview of how the industry is using available capacity and ...

  • New SME Chair & Vice Chair (Photo RIA)
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    Railway Industry Association announces SME Group leadership

    2024-05-03T12:27:00Z

    UK: The Railway Industry Association announced the appointments of the next Chair and Vice-Chair of its SME Group on May 2. The new Chair is Catherine Leech, Managing Director of Anturas Consulting Ltd, who succeeds Lucy Prior. Leech said she would continue work to raise the ...

  • LNER trains and passengers at London King's Cross station (Photo LNER)
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    Train operators launch joint innovation programme

    2024-05-03T04:00:00Z

    UK: Four train operators are to run a joint programme giving technology companies the opportunity to demonstrate AI, telecoms, quantum and other innovations in a real-world rail environment. The Future Labs programme is to be run by the government-owned operators LNER, Northern, Southeastern and TransPennine Express ...

  • DB Cargo UK 66039 fitted with ETCS technology travels to RIDC (Photo Network Rail)
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    Class 66 ETCS testing underway

    2024-05-02T11:00:00Z

    UK: Dynamic testing has begun with a DB Cargo UK Class 66 diesel locomotive which has been retrofitted with ETCS as the First in Class for the roll-out of the digital signalling technology across the most common type of freight loco in the UK. As part ...

  • Tactile surfacing web (Photo LNER)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-05-02T04:00:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • London Waterloo passengers buying tickets (Photo Rail Partners)
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    Operator of last resort holds key to Labour’s rail renationalisation aspiration

    2024-05-01T11:23:00Z

    UK: Rail Business UK has been speaking to industry leaders as they start to digest the rail policy proposals set out by the Labour Party ahead of the forthcoming general election.

  • Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre (Photo Porterbrook)
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    Porterbrook to electrify Long Marston test track

    2024-05-01T10:00:00Z

    UK: Porterbrook has announced plans to renew the 3·5 km test track at its Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre and install 25 kV 50 Hz electrification. Testing will be possible at speeds of up to 75 km/h, with the capability to support ETCS. ‘Substantial replacement of ...

  • Unipart machines
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    Rail construction, maintenance and renewal machine range launched

    2024-05-01T04:00:00Z

    TRACK MACHINES: Unipart Rail has launched a range of rail construction, maintenance and renewal machines, developed in partnership with Thomson Engineering Design Ltd. The range includes: Sleeper Layer, providing delivery rates of up to 1 000 sleepers/h, with options including automatic steering, remote condition monitoring ...

  • Avanti West Coast Superfare ticket booking on mobile phone
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    Avanti West Coast says Superfares have brought modal shift

    2024-04-30T14:47:00Z

    UK: Avanti West Coast has expanded the availability of its Superfare tickets to 10 more destinations, saying the cheaper tickets have encouraged modal shift. Passengers book a Superfare ticket for a specific date, with the choice of morning, afternoon or evening slots. The exact time of ...

  • CrossCountry 170 Peterborough 1
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    CrossCountry DMU maintenance contract signed

    2024-04-30T04:00:00Z

    UK: CrossCountry has awarded West Midlands Trains a long-term contract to continue to maintain the long-distance operator’s Class 170 diesel multiple-unit fleet at Tyseley depot in Birmingham until 2031. ‘Servicing, maintaining and cleaning the Class 170 fleet has been, and continues to be, an important part ...

  • William Cook Rail acquires Crowle Wharf Engineers
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    William Cook Rail acquires Crowle Wharf Engineers

    2024-04-29T14:00:00Z

    UK: Leeds-based wagon and industrial component supplier William Cook Rail has acquired coupler, bogie, buffer and wagon maintenance, repair and overhaul specialist Crowle Wharf Engineers Ltd. Announcing the deal on April 29, William Cook Rail explained that CWE had annual sales of £5m, and 50 employees ...

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    CIRO confirms Rail Ops conference plans

    2024-04-29T05:36:00Z

    UK: The Chartered Institution of Railway Operators is to hold its fourth annual Rail Ops conference on June 4. This virtual event is designed to provide valuable insights for all those who are engaged in railway operations globally. Rail Ops 2024, through the continued support of ...

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    Mixed response to Labour rail proposals

    2024-04-26T06:06:00Z

    UK: Organisations across the UK rail sector have broadly welcomed the reform proposals unveiled by Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh on April 25. Entitled ‘Getting Britain Moving’, the Labour Party policy committed to introducing new legislation to establish Great British Railways early in the next Parliamentary ...

  • gb-TfW Rail Class 197 launched to Ebbw Vale
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-04-25T05:18:00Z

    This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

  • Northern Class 769 Alderley Edge to Southport (Photo Tony Miles)
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    Williams Review author backs Labour plan to adopt Great British Railways reforms in full

    2024-04-24T22:01:00Z

    UK: Sir Keith Williams has lent his backing to plans by the Labour Party to implement a standalone ‘guiding mind’ for the rail sector if it wins the upcoming General Election.