Business
PORR consortium to supply HS2 slab track
PORR’s Austrian Slab Track system has won the contract to provide the slab track for HS2 phases 1 and 2a – from London to Birmingham and Crewe, where HS2 will join the existing West Coast […]
Business
Appointments
Stadler takes over responsibility for maintaining the Tyne and Wear Metro fleet
Stadler, the Swiss train manufacturer that is building 42 new trains for the Tyne & Wear Metro has taken over responsibility for servicing and maintaining the old Metro fleet in Newcastle upon Tyne. Tyne & […]
Appointments
Neil Walker joins Unipart as managing director of Rail and Manufacturing
Neil Walker has been appointed to be the new managing director of Unipart Rail and Unipart Manufacturing Group. He joins the independent manufacturing, logistics and consultancy group from seven years at MTR Corporation, where he […]
Business
South Western Railway runs special trains for National Inclusion Week
To mark National Inclusion Week 2020, South Western Railway has reaffirmed its commitment to encouraging greater diversity amongst its workforce by running three dedicated services – each staffed respectively by female, LGBT+ and BAME employees. […]
Appointments
Jérôme Tolot to be the next chairman of Keolis
Jérôme Tolot, the deputy chief executive officer of Engie, has been appointed to the supervisory board of Keolis from 2 October 2020 and will succeed Joël Lebreton as chairman early next year. Jean-Pierre Farandou, SNCF […]
Associations
Rail Sector Deal UK Exports Survey Report published
The Rail Supply Group has published the Rail Sector Deal UK Exports Survey Report, setting out the key views of rail suppliers on the UK exports market. Anna Ince, vice chairman of the Rail Supply […]
Business
LNER cleaners have worked 307,000 hours since March
London North Eastern Railway (LNER), the government-owned rain operator that runs services from London King’s Cross north to Peterborough, Doncaster, Newcastle and Edinburgh, has been carrying out record levels of enhanced cleaning to keep people […]
Business
Dutch tests show Alstom hydrogen train is
“a fully viable alternative to diesel”
Following successful trial runs made by Alstom’s Coradia iLint hydrogen train in the Netherlands, the Province of Groningen has published a report outlining the results of the tests performed in March on the 65 kilometres […]
Business
First Bombardier monorail cars delivered to Bangkok
The first Bombardier Innovia monorail 300 vehicles for Thailand, which will run on Bangkok’s new Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) Pink and Yellow lines, have arrived in the Thai capital. Together, the 34.2km Khae Rai-MinBuri (Pink) […]
Business
Hitachi Rail wins CBTC train control contract in San Francisco
San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has awarded a $798 million (£620 million) contract to Hitachi Rail STS USA for the design, build and installation of a Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) digital train-control system […]