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Month: January 2020

Business

HS2 ‘Oakervee’ report gets leaked again

20 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Government’s report into HS2 and whether it should go ahead has been leaked for a second time. A draft copy of the report by Douglas Oakervee was seen by The Times newspaper in November […]

Business

Ford Bridgend Taskforce, headed by former NR chairman, makes progress

20 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Former Network Rail chairman Professor Richard Parry-Jones CBE is heading up the Ford Bridgend Taskforce, which is assisting the workforce of Ford’s engine factory and the local community following the company’s decision to close its […]

Infrastructure

Work has begun on the new £100 million South Wales Metro depot at Taff’s Well.

20 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The South Wales Metro will significantly improve connectivity throughout South Wales and provide access to jobs, leisure and other opportunities for the people of Wales, through unifying rail, bus and active travel routes. It has […]

Infrastructure

Mossley Hill footbridge in Liverpool to be replaced

19 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Network Rail is about to replace a railway footbridge near Mossley Hill station in Liverpool that is well-used by the local community. The bridge, which connects Elmsley Road and Bridge Road in Mossley Hill, will […]

Business

Glasgow Queen Street goes for gold

18 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Glasgow Queen Street station is undergoing a £120 million rebuild that will deliver: A contemporary building both internally and externally; An expanded concourse; Improved, fully accessible, entrances on Dundas Street and George Square; New station […]

Appointments

Porterbrook appoints Duncan Wilkins to be new head of fleet services

18 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Duncan Wilkins, currently engineering director at Trenitalia C2C, is joining train leasing company Porterbrook as its new head of fleet services (south). Will 30 years of front-line operational and rolling stock experience behind him – […]

Appointments

Three senior appointments at Southeastern

18 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Southeastern, the Govia-owned train operator that runs train services into London from Kent and East Sussex, operates over 2000 trains and carries more than 640,000 passengers a day, has made three senior appointments to its […]

Infrastructure

River Wriggle bridge to be replaced at Yetminster

17 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Yetminster in Somerset, home to the English folk music group The Yetties (The Yetties of Yetminster was their 10th album, released in 1975), will hit the headlines again this spring as Network Rail replaces the […]

Events

Railway staff attacked at Bournville station

17 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

British Transport Police (BTP) has released CCTV images of six men that are being sought after West Midlands Railway staff were attacked at Bournville station in Birmingham. At 21:45 on Friday 15 November 2019, the […]

Electrification

Wires down at Hest Bank close West Coast main line

17 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Network Rail engineers worked through the night of Thursday 16 January 2020 to reopen the West Coast main line that had been closed earlier in the day when the overhead wires came down at Hest […]

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  • 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
  • Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
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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…
  • 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.
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
  • 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
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
    BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
    23 July 2025 0
  • GB Railfreight changes hands – acquired by Infracapital
    24 September 2019 0
  • Replacing sleepers on Britain’s longest railway bridge
    4 June 2020 0
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
    Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
    13 August 2025 0
  • Bombardier to overhaul Regina trains in Sweden
    14 December 2019 0
  • Brunel’s ‘Bristol Old Station’ now in Network Rail ownership
    15 September 2020 0
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