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  • [ 28 November 2025 ] Tamara Finkelstein to be CEO of Royal Academy of Engineering Appointments
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Hull Trains is back! (or soon will be)

31 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Open-access operator Hull Trains is planning to start running services again from Friday 21 August. Trains will run between Beverley and London King’s Cross for the first time since Sunday 29 March, when services were […]

Business

Harsco Corporation releases Environmental, Social & Governance Report for 2019-2020

30 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Harsco Corporation, the parent company of Harsco Rail, the global supplier of railway track maintenance products and services, has released its Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Report, highlighting the company’s corporate sustainability accomplishments throughout the […]

Business

Fact-finding service runs on the Fawley branch – closed since 1966

28 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

South Western Railway has run a special Class 159 train, carrying invited guests, on the Fawley branch, otherwise known as the Waterside line. The ‘Fawley Explorer’ was a ‘fact-finding’ service, to investigate the potential re-opening […]

Appointments

Keolis Group has a new executive chairman

28 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Marie-Ange Debon has been appointed Keolis Group executive chairman by a meeting of the Group’s Supervisory Board. She will take up her post on 24 August 2020. The post of executive chairman became vacant when […]

Business

Management buyout at BCM Construction

27 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

BCM Construction has effectively changed hands as three of the management team have acquired the majority of the company’s shares. Shane O’Halloran, Stuart Jackson and Dan Wiscombe, who have a combined record of more than […]

Business

Hungarian Railways orders its first Harsco 20-stone rail grinder

27 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Harsco Rail, the global supplier of innovative railway track maintenance products and services, has signed a $10.3 million (£8 million) contract with Hungarian infrastructure manager MÁV FKG Kft-t to provide it with an EU 20-stone […]

Business

Bid for transport devolution for the South East

24 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Transport for the South East, by a partnership of the region’s local authorities and business leaders, has submitted a bid for transport devolution in the South East of England. The proposal is designed to power-up […]

Business

Eversholt Rail and Alstom to invest extra £1m in developing hydrogen trains

22 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Eversholt Rail and Alstom will invest a further £1 million in British hydrogen trains, creating an entirely new category of train, the 600 series. This major investment will take the Breeze hydrogen train plan to […]

Business

Government to conduct urgent review into TfL’s finances and future options

20 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

The Secretary of State for Transport is to undertake a rapid review of Transport for London’s current financial situation and the options for strengthening its future sustainability. This review, which will be led by the […]

Business

Alstom, Indra and SanJose Constructora to supply tunnel security systems for Spanish high-speed line

20 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

A consortium of Alstom, Indra and SanJose Constructora has won a contract worth €53 million from Spanish railway infrastructure authority Adif to supply and install the safety and security systems for twelve tunnels in the […]

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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
  • Two young men were arrested inside a mail train and charged with theft
    Police thwart attempt to steal mail from train
    2 August 2023 0
  • Minister visits Rolls-Royce to inspect MTU hybrid drives
    23 May 2019 0
  • Management buyout at BCM Construction
    27 July 2020 0
  • Andy Lord to be new London Underground MD
    15 July 2019 0
  • RAIB issues first report into accident at Stonehaven
    14 August 2020 2
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