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Month: June 2020

Business

LNER to run East Coast trains for at least three more years

26 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

London North Eastern Railway (LNER), the train operator that runs services on the East Coast main line from London King’s Cross to the East Midlands, Yorkshire, the North East and Scotland, will continue to do […]

Accident Investigation

Near miss at a crossing in Suffolk

26 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A train travelling between Lowestoft and Ipswich was involved in a near miss with cars at Worlingham user-worked crossing. The incident occurred at around 13:42 on 8 June 2020, The signaller had given a permission […]

Infrastructure

First structural work completed at Euston in preparation for HS2

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Demolition of the western ramp and canopy at London Euston station is now complete, paving the way for construction of the new HS2 Euston station. The western ramp had been in place since the modernisation […]

Light Rail

Tram and light rail usage falls in 2019/20

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport has released its latest statistics for tram and light rail usage in England for the year 2019/2020, which show the biggest decrease in almost 30 years. The number of passenger journeys […]

Infrastructure

Carpenter’s Land Bridge over London railway lines wins two CIHT Awards for Graham

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Carpenter’s Land Bridge, a pedestrian and cycle bridge that links the £1.1 billion East Bank culture and education district on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to International Quarter London, crossing both Network Rail and Docklands Light […]

Books

Report highlights benefits of high-speed rail to London and South East

25 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

High Speed Rail Group (HSRG) has published a collection of essays by leading figures from the worlds of politics, business and industry detailing the huge benefits high-speed rail has and will bring to London and […]

Business

Unipart Rail wins share of £9.4 million for new zero-emissions rail handling machine

24 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Unipart Rail has been picked as one of the winners of the 2020 First of a Kind (FOAK) competition, which encourages innovation in the rail industry. 25 pioneering projects will share £9.4 million as the […]

Business

Construction shortlist revealed for HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street station

24 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

High Speed Two (HS2) has named the contractors shortlisted to build Birmingham Curzon Street station – the high-speed rail project’s landmark city-centre terminus. The companies that will be invited to tender for the £570 million […]

Business

Costain Skanska ceases to be contractor delivering Crossrail’s Bond Street station

24 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Crossrail and the Costain Skanska joint venture (CSJV) have parted ways at Bond Street station, with Crossrail to oversee completion of the remaining works in-house. Work at Bond Street has been running late, and Crossrail […]

Business

Stobart Rail & Civils for sale?

24 June 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Following earlier reports that Stobart Group would “withdraw from the Rail & Civils business” by February 2022, a new twist in the story has emerged on Twitter. A company spokesperson wrote, under the headline “BUSINESS […]

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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
  • RAIB to issue Safety Digest on recent incident in West Wales when a train hit a tree
    14 November 2019 0
  • Balfour Beatty to redevelop Motherwell station
    18 March 2020 0
  • Carpenter’s Land Bridge over London railway lines wins two CIHT Awards for Graham
    25 June 2020 0
  • ScotRail releases spectacular train journey videos
    31 December 2020 0
  • HIMA to show ‘Off the Shelf’ SIL 4 safety controllers at Trako exhibition
    24 August 2019 0
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