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Year: 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Home-schooling STEM lockdown pack from Network Rail

30 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

To help many parents who are having both to manage their own time while working from home and organise home schooling for their children, Network Rail has created a pack of Science, Technology, Engineering and […]

Business

Bombardier signs new logistics and support contract for Trenitallia ETR500 fleet

30 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Bombardier Transportation has signed a new contract with Italian state operator Trenitalia to support its fleet of ETR500 very high-speed trains with integrated logistics services. The initial contract is for six years, with an option […]

Appointments

Interim WMRE programme director to oversee new station developments

29 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Amanda White, a former head of rail with Transport for Greater Manchester, has joined the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) as interim programme director to work on the development of five new stations in Birmingham […]

Europe

New Harting component carrier replaces flexible PCBs

29 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The use of flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs) allows designers to develop tightly packaged electronics where connections need to be made in three axes or where the assembly is required to flex during operation. However, […]

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Coronavirus or COVID-19? What’s the difference?

29 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 38

The current Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic is generally believed to have started in Wuhan, China, late in 2019. From there, it spread throughout the world, forcing countries into lockdown, killing thousands and generally stopping world travel […]

Business

Updated details of HS2 Independent Design Panel released

28 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport has released updated details of the HS2 Independent Design Panel, created in 2015 to use the framework of the Design Vision to advise and hold to account HS2’s leadership, project teams […]

Infrastructure

Level crossing in Oxfordshire closes, replaced by temporary footbridge

28 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Network Rail has closed another level crossing, this time at Tackley station in Oxfordshire, and replaced it by a temporary footbridge as part of its continuing effort to make the railway safer. The crossing has […]

Business

Greater Anglia drivers start simulator training for new Class 720 trains

28 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

As Greater Anglia starts to receive the first of its new Class 720 Bombardier Aventra electric trains, the twelve experienced train drivers who will be test driving them have just started their initial training, using […]

Business

Plans to restore railway services “premature and ill-conceived” – TSSA

27 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Network Rail is planning to restore 80 to 90 per cent of rail services by 18 May, according to Manuel Cortes, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA). Information that has reached him […]

Business

West Midlands signallers turn to local gin distillery for their hand sanitiser.

27 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Signalling staff in the West Midlands and Chilterns area are keeping safe using a new hand sanitiser made by local distillery Piston Gin. The Worcester-based gin distillery turned hand sanitiser producer is helping Network Rail’s […]

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  • 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
  • Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
  • Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
  • BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
  • First bodyshell for Santiago Metro Line 7 completed
  • 12-car trains to call at Basildon by December
  • New Mark V trains enter service on Vancouver’s SkyTrain
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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…
  • 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.
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
  • 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
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Alstom has completed the first bodyshell for one of the 37 trains it is building for Santiago Metro Line 7.
    First bodyshell for Santiago Metro Line 7 completed
    16 July 2025 0
  • Platform 2 at Basildon station is to be rebuilt, allowing 12-car trains to call.
    12-car trains to call at Basildon by December
    16 July 2025 0
  • The new SkyTrain Mark V entered service on 10 July 2025.
    New Mark V trains enter service on Vancouver’s SkyTrain
    11 July 2025 0
  • Siemens India has won major signalling and telecommunications contracts for Nagpur Metro Rail Phase 2.
    Siemens India wins major contracts for Nagpur Metro Rail Project Phase 2
    11 July 2025 0
  • 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
  • GTR prepares young people for employment
    26 November 2020 0
  • New footbridge at Coulsdon South improves access
    12 August 2020 1
  • Former depot in Kent demolished to make room for new sidings
    28 August 2020 0
  • Karen Jackson moves from Porterbrook to Rail Forum Midlands
    5 August 2020 0
  • Unipart Rail awarded British Safety Council Sword of Honour
    6 January 2021 0
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