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Omnicom, which provides software and hardware for surveying, inspecting and monitoring rail infrastructure assets, will change hands, from Balfour Beatty to Hitachi Rail, later in 2025.
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Balfour Beatty to sell Omnicom to Hitachi Rail

17 January 2025 Rail Insider 0

Infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has announced that it has reached agreement for the sale of Omnicom, its specialist rail measurement hardware and intelligent software business, to Hitachi Rail. Omnicom provides software and hardware for surveying, […]

Park Signalling will produce a new Design Workstation for State Interlocking (SSI) signalling systems.
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Unipart’s Park Signalling wins £3m Network Rail contract

6 January 2025 Rail Insider 0

Unipart’s Park Signalling wins £3m Network Rail contract to develop Design Workstations for Solid State Interlocking (SSI) signalling systems in the UK. […]

All Northern City line trains between Moorgate and Finsbury Park are now controlled using ETCS digital in-cab signalling.
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Northern City line trains now using digital in-cab signalling

13 November 2024 Rail Insider 0

Every train that commuters catch on the Great Northern route to Moorgate in the City of London is now being controlled using ground-breaking digital signalling technology. The European Train Control System (ETCS) allows continuous communication […]

Comms Design and Transport for Wales will trial Request to Stop at two Welsh stations.
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Unipart’s Comms Design to trial Request to Stop with Transport for Wales

23 July 2024 Rail Insider 0

Comms Design, a Unipart company that specialises in digital signalling and communication equipment, is preparing, alongside Transport for Wales, to trial a digital signalling system that will enhance passenger experience and optimise train operations on […]

Business

Siemens Mobility to install new mobile battery charging demonstrator at Long Marston

27 November 2023 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Siemens Mobility has developed new technology that makes battery charging and 25kV power supply possible in areas of the UK railway where overhead line equipment is not currently available. The new Rail Charging Converter (RCC) […]

Image of East West Rail overbridge at Calvert Nov 2023.
Infrastructure

East West Rail / HS2 crossing earthworks completed

24 November 2023 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The last section of earthworks that will carry East West Rail (EWR) services between Oxford and Cambridge over the new HS2 high-speed line near the village of Calvert in Buckinghamshire have been completed by HS2 […]

Engineers digging lift shafts at Warwick station have encountered unexpected buried foundations
Health & Safety

Access improvements at Warwick station delayed by unexpected foundations

4 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

The discovery of unknown foundations below Warwick station has forced Network Rail engineers to rethink a project that is intended to provide step-free access to both platforms for the first time. As part of that […]

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Tea room opens in restored Bricket Wood station building

2 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

The 1903 station building at Bricket Wood, on the Watford to St Albans Abbey branch line, has opened to the public as a tea room, having been closed and bricked up in the 1960s. Taken […]

Two teenage boys were electrocuted over the same weekend in separate incidents in Scotland
Electrification

Two teenagers electrocuted over one weekend

1 August 2023 Rail Insider 0

Two teenagers were electrocuted in separate incidents on the railway in Scotland over the weekend of 29/30 July 2023, prompting urgent safety warnings from British Transport Police (BTP). On Saturday 29 July, shortly after 21:00, […]

Repairing the culvert at Aylesbury will close the railway for 12 days
Infrastructure

Major work to close railway in Aylesbury area

31 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

Three important pieces of work will disrupt rail travel in the Aylesbury, Princes Risborough and Amersham area for three months. Firstly, Network Rail will close the line between Aylesbury, Princes Risborough and Amersham for 12 […]

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  • 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
  • Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
British Steel Christmas 2019 Crossrail HS2 London Overground London Underground Network Rail Northern Ireland Northern Powerhouse RAIB Scotland TfL Trako Unipart USA Wales West Midlands
  • 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…
  • 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.
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
  • 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
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
    BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
    23 July 2025 0
  • Rock Rail appoints two leading experts to its Advisory Board in Germany
    10 June 2020 0
  • South Western Railway’s new carpets are Axminsters!
    27 July 2019 1
  • 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
  • French high-speed hospital
    27 March 2020 0
  • Gavin Pritchard takes up role of commercial director at Osborne Infrastructure
    4 February 2020 0
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