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  • [ 16 July 2025 ] First bodyshell for Santiago Metro Line 7 completed Business
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  • [ 11 July 2025 ] Siemens India wins major contracts for Nagpur Metro Rail Project Phase 2 Business
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Year: 2020

Business

Bombardier delivers first of 47 new trams to Duisburg, Germany

11 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Bombardier Transportation has delivered the first of the Flexity low-floor trams it is manufacturing for Duisburg in Germany. Comprehensive test and approval runs on the local network will start shortly. Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG ordered a […]

Innovation

Avanti West Coast Pendolino trains ‘coast’ to avoid delays

10 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

For the first time, Avanti West Coast has operated its Pendolino fleet without power under damaged overhead wires to keep to its planned timetable.  Following the discovery of a defect with the overhead line equipment […]

Infrastructure

Dealing with ageing infrastructure

10 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Dr Luke Prendergast, assistant professor in civil engineering at the University of Nottingham, considers the problems caused by the railway’s aging infrastructure. The UK has an ageing rail network that is under increasing pressure from […]

Appointments

Chris Burchell leaves Arriva for SSE

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 2

Chris Burchell, managing director of Arriva UK trains for the last six years, has announced that he will be leaving the rail industry in mid-October to take up a new challenge in the energy sector. […]

Business

DB Cargo to buy up to 400 Vectron dual-mode locomotives from Siemens Mobility

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

DB Cargo in Germany has awarded Siemens Mobility a framework agreement for the supply of 400 Vectron dual-mode locomotives in a deal worth well over one billion Euros. The freight operator is renewing its fleet […]

Business

Government again rejects inspector’s recommendation over coal mining

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 3

An application by Banks Mining, to open a new coal mine in Northumberland, has been rejected by the government after four years of wrangling. The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Government, Robert Jenrick, […]

Business

Dyer & Butler to repair three Wessex bridges

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The contract to carry out strengthening work to three railway bridges on Network Rail’s Wessex route in the South of England has been awarded to Dyer & Butler. Under the terms of the contract, the […]

Heritage

Borders Railway – five years on

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Five years to the day since Her Majesty The Queen opened the Borders Railway between Edinburgh, Midlothian, and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders on 9 September 2015, the Campaign for Borders Rail continues to argue […]

Heritage

Three railway bridges in Darlington to get a refresh

9 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Three historic railway bridges in Darlington, Co Durham, are due to be refurbished and restored to their former glory – and colour schemes. As part of a £60,000 project, Network Rail is working in partnership […]

Business

Sheringham station brightened up by volunteer

8 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

When the platforms at Sheringham station were extended to accommodate Greater Anglia’s new fleet of trains, as part of a £1 million project that included improved LED lighting and a new, bigger and better customer […]

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  • First bodyshell for Santiago Metro Line 7 completed
  • 12-car trains to call at Basildon by December
  • Siemens India wins major contracts for Nagpur Metro Rail Project Phase 2
  • Great Northern runs first passenger services using the latest version of ETCS digital signalling
  • Škoda Group wins new tram contract for Mainz and strengthens its position in Germany
  • Derailed train causes delays and cancellations to services to and from London Euston
  • Arriva wins £640 million contract to run main-line train services in Czechia
  • ERTMS digital signalling deployed in northern Sweden
  • Eurostar services disrupted after problems near Lille
  • VTG Rail appoints Matt Hannant as Head of Sales and Marketing
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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…
  • Alstom has completed the first bodyshell for one of the 37 trains it is building for Santiago Metro Line 7.
  • Platform 2 at Basildon station is to be rebuilt, allowing 12-car trains to call.
  • Siemens India has won major signalling and telecommunications contracts for Nagpur Metro Rail Phase 2.
  • First Great Northern Class 717 in passenger service using 3.6.0 - the 17.17 service to Moorgate at Finsbury Park on 8 July 2025.
  • The German city of Mainz has ordered 22 new trams from Škoda Group with an option for eight more.
  • The front bogie on a London Northwestern Railway train derailed near Bletchley on the West Coast main line.
  • Arriva has won a contract to operate long-distance electric rail services in Czechia from December 2028.
  • ERTMS has been deployed on Sweden's Iron Ore line.
  • First Great Northern Class 717 in passenger service using 3.6.0 - the 17.17 service to Moorgate at Finsbury Park on 8 July 2025.
    Great Northern runs first passenger services using the latest version of ETCS digital signalling
    11 July 2025 0
  • The German city of Mainz has ordered 22 new trams from Škoda Group with an option for eight more.
    Škoda Group wins new tram contract for Mainz and strengthens its position in Germany
    2 July 2025 0
  • The front bogie on a London Northwestern Railway train derailed near Bletchley on the West Coast main line.
    Derailed train causes delays and cancellations to services to and from London Euston
    27 June 2025 0
  • Arriva has won a contract to operate long-distance electric rail services in Czechia from December 2028.
    Arriva wins £640 million contract to run main-line train services in Czechia
    26 June 2025 0
  • ERTMS has been deployed on Sweden's Iron Ore line.
    ERTMS digital signalling deployed in northern Sweden
    26 June 2025 0
  • Eurostar services disrupted after problems near Lille
    25 June 2025 0
  • VTG Rail appoints Matt Hannant as Head of Sales and Marketing
    23 June 2025 0
  • Gareth Davies named as SYSTRA’s Market Director for Water & Environment
    23 June 2025 0
  • Alstom’s RER NG has been running on the RER D line since December 2024.
    SNCF Voyageurs orders 96 additional RER NG trainsets from Alstom
    23 June 2025 0
  • Infrastructure and increased investment needed to unlock economic growth – Transport for the North
    23 June 2025 0
  • PC Rob Simpson reunited Linda Lawson with the teddy bear her late husband had given her
    Passenger reunited with stolen luggage – and teddy bear!
    18 May 2023 0
  • New Art on the Underground planned for the Northern line extension.
    5 September 2019 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line, closed since March due to storm damage, to reopen later this month
    5 May 2020 1
  • 20th Birthday for West Midlands Metro
    28 May 2019 0
  • Updated details of HS2 Independent Design Panel released
    28 April 2020 0
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