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Year: 2019

Charity

Network Rail signaller Manny Kang raises £40,000 for Dementia UK

3 October 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Manny (Manjinder) Kang, a Network Rail signaller, has been nominated for a Daily Mirror Pride of Britain award after raising more than £40,000 for Dementia UK. A life-long Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter, Manny originally set out […]

Accident Investigation

RAIB concludes wagon derailed due to missing split pin in braking system

1 October 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released a ‘Safety Digest’ following the derailment of a freight wagon at Carpenters Road North junction, near Stratford in East London, on 11 June 2019. Although it re-railed […]

Accident Investigation

Network Rail releases interim report into Margam track worker fatalities

30 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Network Rail has released its interim report into the accident at Margam on 3 July 2019 that resulted in the death of two track workers. The full report, which will be released in a couple […]

Business

Rail regulator ORR proposes steep increase in HS1 access charges

30 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Train operators using High Speed 1 (HS1 – the former Channel Tunnel Rail Link) could soon face track access charges that have more than doubled. This is because the rail regulator, the Office of Rail […]

Infrastructure

Glasgow Queen Street station glazed concourse wall completed

29 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The £120 million redevelopment of Glasgow Queens Street station has taken another step towards completion with the glazing of its 734-square-metre concourse wall. 21 metres high, it contains 310 glass panels and will bring to […]

Infrastructure

New footbridge for Northern Ireland’s City Hospital halt

27 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Work has started on a new pedestrian footbridge at City Hospital halt, south Belfast. The existing bridge and steel supports will be replaced with a single-span Warren truss-type girder structure with reinforced concrete piers. So […]

Business

Alstom transfers tram power supply technology to buses

26 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Technology that Alstom originally developed for trams in historic cities has now crossed over and is being used to recharge electric buses. First used in 2003 on trams in Bordeaux, APS (Alimentation par Sol – […]

Business

GB Railfreight Class 66 reaches Oban with Royal Scotsman train

26 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A Class 66 locomotive has run the full length of the Oban branch in Scotland for the first time. Previously, only lighter locomotives, such as Class 37s, had been permitted to use the single-track line […]

Business

GB Railfreight changes hands – acquired by Infracapital

24 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

GB Railfreight (GBRf), the UK’s third-largest rail freight operator that provides essential freight and non-freight haulage services to customers in a number of the country’s critical industries, has been sold by current owner Hector Rail […]

Accident Investigation

Increase in signals passed at danger – RSSB asks: “Is enough being done?”

23 September 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A signal passed at danger, or SPAD, is a cause of real concern to the railway industry. It’s how accidents happen. When a train passes a red signal it can run into the back of […]

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  • Tamara Finkelstein to be CEO of Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
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  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • Dame Tamara Finkelstein will take over as chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering in February 2026.
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
    Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
    12 August 2025 0
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • Network Rail suppliers adopt science-based emissions targets
    29 June 2023 0
  • New look for Longbridge station
    12 July 2019 0
  • QTS uses 3D printer to help NHS
    10 April 2020 1
  • Last Class 92 for Caledonian Sleeper back in service
    10 July 2019 0
  • CAF reveals the train it is hoping to supply to HS2
    11 June 2019 0
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