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We’re doing one of the last steam-age jobs on the network.
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Working with Network Rail, Innovate UK has revealed £300,000 available to be shared between businesses that have rail projects to fast-track automated design.
Posted 10 hours ago by Railpage System User
A tunnel that runs under London Bridge station linking the streets on either side of the site has reopened to the public following refurbishment works.
Posted 10 hours ago by Railpage System User
As our biggest-ever Future Engineers event approaches, we’ve teamed up with the Rail Delivery Group to find out more about some of the women engineers working in the rail industry today.
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Network Rail is set to initiate a public consultation requesting feedback on proposals to remove the Croydon bottleneck. The public consultation will be held over the next two months.
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Weeks away from entering passenger service, UK operator Northern has officially presented its new CAF-built EMU and DMU fleet. The launch event took place at Alstom’s Edge Hill depot in Liverpool.
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Little girls never used to aspire to be train drivers, but times have changed. A new wave of women, recruited into MTR Crossrail in response to concerns expressed in October 2017 by ASLEF’s General Secretary, Mick Whelan, about the lack of train driver diversity, are now inspiring young ladies across the UK to discover the “most fun job you’ll ever have”
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This week Scotrail reached a milestone: the first Inter7City high speed train (HST) entered service.
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This month we launched our latest national campaign - targeting drivers of road vehicles - to reduce the number of incidents at level crossings.
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Network Rail’s Infrastructure Project’s Track team has been awarded three Safety Swords of Honour by the British Safety Council (BSC)
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Deep under the City of London lies the oldest disused tube station in London, and one that’s currently a hive of activity.
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The £140 million transformation of Liverpool Lime Street has been completed with the full reopening of all 10 of the station’s platforms.
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British railway infrastructure manager Network Rail has started trials of a new Internet of Things (IoT) predictive technology designed to prevent flooding on railway tracks as part of its TrackWater project.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Lower Thames Crossing to be 'biggest road project since M25'
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KeolisAmey has taken over as operator of rail services for Wales and Borders, replacing Arriva Trains Wales, which operated the franchise since 2003.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
The Department for Transport has published a prior information notice which would enable it to directly award a contract for the operation of Cross Country services for a maximum of 60 months from the end of Arriva’s current contract in October 2019.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Thomas the Tank EngineTM is set to teach children about railway safety in the first book of its kind.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Outside Charing Cross station is a tree. An ordinary tree like all the others planted in the area. No one pays it any attention unless they walk into it. But this is a special tree.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Transport for Wales has successfully taken over the operation of Wales and Borders. Branded as Transport for Wales Rail Services, the 15 year contract will be delivered by KeolisAmey.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
According to a 31 August announcement from the UK Met Office, summer 2018 was the hottest on record for England and joint hottest for the UK as a whole. While the heat was welcomed by some as a nice reprieve from the country’s famously drizzly weather, many rail passengers were treated to sweltering temperatures and potentially dangerous conditions.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Half the platforms at Victoria Station will be closed over the Christmas holiday, as engineering works at Battersea cut them off from the rest of the network.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
HS2 has released detailed design proposals for the high-speed railway between the Midlands and the north of England.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Northern has unveiled the first two trains in a £500m new fleet that will set new standards for customers using local rail in the north of England.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Following our posting in August here about the arrival of the first refurbished HST arriving in Scotland, ScotRail have now announced that services will commence from Monday 15th October.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
In order to make the most of the newly formed North Sea Port, a number of bottlenecks need to be addressed on the railway network. This was the conclusion of research carried out into the capacity of rail freight and the potential of passenger transport in the port area.
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