All Rail Business UK articles – Page 4

  • Veezu and Seatfrog (Photo Veezu)
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    Train ticket and taxi apps link up

    2024-06-24T04:00:00Z

    UK: Rail ticketing app Seatfrog and private hire taxi platform Veezu have announced a strategic partnership to link train journey and taxi network data. Passengers will be able to book taxi rides connected automatically to their rail departure and arrival times, so they can step out ...

  • Mark Mason (Photo CRS)
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    Civil Rail Solutions secures £3m funding for growth

    2024-06-21T04:00:00Z

    UK: Labour supply business Civil Rail Solutions has secured a £3m funding line with independent SME funder Bibby Financial Services. Confidential Invoice Discounting provides a company with prepayment against invoices, and CRS said the funding line would enable it to meet increased industry demand for ...

  • Dispatching a train at London Bridge station (Photo Southeastern)
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-06-20T04:00:00Z

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

  • Martijn Gilbert (Photo Hull Trains) (1)
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    Interview: ‘Open access works in Europe and it works here’

    2024-06-19T11:00:00Z

    UK: Martijn Gilbert, head of FirstGroup’s Lumo and Hull Trains businesses, says the open access model is a proven success, and makes the case for further expansion whatever rail reforms may lie ahead.

  • Avanti West Coast Pendolino 390155 on Docker Viaduct (Photo AWC)
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    Avanti West Coast introduces through ticketing to Keswick

    2024-06-19T10:00:00Z

    UK: Avanti West Coast has added Stagecoach bus services X4 and X5 between Penrith and Keswick to its journey planner and introduced through tickets for the rail fare plus £2. Launched in partnership with Cumbria Tourism, the scheme is intended to encourage visitors to the Lake ...

  • Telent TPCMS jpg
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    Latest version of traction power supply SCADA commissioned

    2024-06-19T04:00:00Z

    UK: The latest version of Telent’s Traction Power Centralised Management System has been commissioned at Raynes Park in south London. Telent said this marked a milestone in delivering a national SCADA platform for Network Rail’s traction power supplies. It followed testing at the Manchester and Three ...

  • Quattro ex TXM machine (Photo Quattro)
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    Quattro Plant acquires 130 road-rail vehicles

    2024-06-18T13:48:00Z

    UK: On-track plant provider Quattro Plant Ltd has acquired 130 road-rail vehicles from the former TXM Plant, which went into administration in January. ‘These additional machines will help us fulfil some of the years of work Quattro has ahead of us’, said Quattro Managing Director John ...

  • UB Infrastructure building
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    Aluminium cladding saves leaking TfL building

    2024-06-18T04:00:00Z

    UK: To meet Transport for London’s need to upgrade a lineside electrical switch box, UB Infrastructure devised a way to clad the existing building in aluminium panels which were fabricated off-site by ADS Laser Cutting and installed by Walker Construction. The building had experienced water ingress ...

  • Rail Forum Made in Britain campaign
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    ‘Made in Britain’ rail manufacturing campaign launches

    2024-06-17T14:17:00Z

    UK: Supply chain association Rail Forum has launched a ‘Made in Britain’ social media initiative to provide an opportunity for its members that are involved in manufacturing to highlight their capability, capacity and processes. The campaign running from June 17 to July 17 is the first ...

  • Elizabeth line Class 345 Aventra
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    Order for extra Elizabeth Line trains confirmed

    2024-06-14T16:23:00Z

    UK: Alstom has signed a contract to supply and maintain a further 10 nine-car Class 345 Aventra electric multiple-units for London’s Elizabeth Line. The £220·5m order is being funded by the Department for Transport, with Transport for London contracting for maintenance until 2046 which takes the ...

  • Palace of Westminster
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    Railway Industry Association welcomes rail’s presence in election manifestos

    2024-06-14T11:00:00Z

    UK: ‘It is good to see rail featuring strongly within the political party election manifesto plans this week’, commented Railway Industry Association Chief Executive Darren Caplan on June 14 after the main political parties had published their policy documents. ‘This prominence reflects the importance of UK ...

  • Freightliner 66503 with containers[1][1][1]
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    ‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign highlights how everyone benefits

    2024-06-14T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Rail Freight Group has launched a ‘Delivered by Rail Freight’ campaign emphasising the sector’s critical role in transporting essential goods. RFG is calling on the next government to make a number of targeted interventions, explaining that funding the electrification of 100 km of connecting ...

  • etchespk-fuelpanel
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    UK railway news round-up

    2024-06-13T04:00:00Z

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

  • AHT HNRC 1
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    Carbon Clean & Capture process cuts diesel loco emissions

    2024-06-12T11:00:00Z

    UK: Independent testing has been undertaken to measure the reduction in emissions which can obtained by fitting a diesel shunting locomotive with Advanced Hydrogen Technologies Group’s Engine Carbon Clean & Capture technology. AHT worked with Harry Needle Railroad Co, which owns the 1950s designed Class 08 ...

  • Mick Lynch RMT
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    RMT backs Labour win but says ‘no blank cheques’

    2024-06-12T04:00:00Z

    UK: The National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers has given qualified backing to Labour ahead of the general election on July 4. RMT issued a statement on June 5 saying the Labour party supports ‘public ownership and reintegration of large parts of the railway’, ...

  • gb-Class 60 at Bristol Parkway June 2024-NJAK
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    Steam turbine freight locomotive prototype to be developed

    2024-06-11T11:35:00Z

    UK: A Class 60 diesel locomotive is to be converted to a modern form of steam power as a potential alternative to electrification for zero-emission heavy freight operations.

  • LNER ticket machines at King's Cross (Photo Tony MIles)
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    Ticket reform and an international rail strategy in Campaign for Better Transport wish list

    2024-06-11T04:00:00Z

    UK: The Campaign for Better Transport charity has published a general election manifesto setting out its transport asks for the next government. For the rail sector, it says the next government should: reform ticketing, freeze fares while fuel duty remains frozen, base annual increases on ...

  • XC 170112 heads two units into Derby on regional working 070623 TM
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    Five recommendations to unleash the potential of rail

    2024-06-10T11:00:00Z

    UK: Industry association Rail Forum has published an ‘Unleashing the potential of rail: an enabler of economic prosperity’ policy document, outlining five policies for the next government which says would offer significant benefits for customers, taxpayers and the supply chain. Rail Forum wants to see: ...

  • Palace of Westminster (Photo Steve Bidmead, Pixabay)
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    Railway Industry Association calls for a ‘fresh start’ after the election

    2024-06-10T04:00:00Z

    UK: Ahead of the July 4 general election the Railway Industry Association has published a manifesto setting out its five main asks for the next parliament and calling for a fresh start for rail. RIA calls on the next government to: publish a long-term rail ...

  • TfW Rail Tram Trains at Taffs Well depot 020524
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    Railway Engineering Degree Apprenticeship launched

    2024-06-07T04:00:00Z

    UK: A Railway Engineering Degree Apprenticeship has been launched by a partnership of the University of South Wales, the Welsh government, Coleg Y Cymoedd and Transport for Wales. The four-year programme includes work-based learning while studying part-time for a BSc (Hons) Railway Engineering (Electromechanical Systems & Electronics) ...