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Lumo awards £50 million contract to enhance and service its Class 222 trains to Alstom

4 June 2025 Rail Insider 0

Lumo, the First Group open-access operator, has signed a £50 million contract with Alstom for the refresh and maintenance of five, six-car Class 222 Meridian trains that will be used to operate open access passenger […]

Buildings

Gosford Metro depot demolition complete

13 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

Demolition of the 100-year-old buildings at Tyne and Wear Metro’s Gosforth depot is now complete as the site is cleared to make way for sidings for alongside the new depot that has been built by […]

Depots

Ilford depot prepares for Greater Anglia’s new trains

31 December 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Greater Anglia’s Ilford depot, built in the late 1940s, is undergoing a series of modifications and upgrades to prepare for the arrival of more new, longer trains. As the new trains have more components on […]

Business

Mechan benefits from its French connection

22 December 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Mechan, the Sheffield-based manufacturer of lifting and railway depot equipment, has made use of its French connection to land an order to equip a new state-of-the-art tram depot on the outskirts of Paris. CIM Group, […]

Buildings

Depot extension at Exeter nears completion

26 November 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The extension to Great Western Railway’s train depot at Old Views in Exeter is nearing completion. The new £40 million three-road facility, being built by Hochtief, is located on a brownfield site adjacent to the […]

Business

Zonegreen wins 2,000th order

3 November 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Sheffield-based Zonegreen is marking a major milestone in its 12-year history – the 2,000th order for its depot safety equipment. The landmark order, which has been placed by VolkerFitzpatrick, is for Zonegreen to install its […]

Business

Southern’s Barnham depot celebrates 25 years

25 September 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Now celebrating 25 years of operation, Barnham ‘depot’ was formed in 1995 to provide a base for drivers when the Bournemouth service launched in the mid-90s. A number of older depots were amalgamated into the […]

Buildings

Former depot in Kent demolished to make room for new sidings

28 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Chart Leacon depot in Ashford, which closed in 2014 and has lain empty ever since, is being demolished to make room for a new train maintenance facility. Balfour Beatty is taking the old depot […]

Depots

Newton Heath depot safety system extended

20 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The new £20 million extension to Newton Heath depot in Manchester is being fitted with the latest depot protection system to safeguard workers. Northern’s new Class 195 diesel trains will be housed at Newton Heath […]

Business

Mechan’s new bogie lifters requested by customer

18 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Mechan, the specialist manufacturer of jacks and lifting equipment for railway depots, has developed a new product – because a customer asked for it! The Sheffield-based company was approached by longstanding client Siemens Mobility to […]

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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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  • 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
  • New Bombardier trams authorised to run in Düsseldorf
    15 May 2020 0
  • 3,000 hours of work make railway at Euston more reliable in hot weather
    19 June 2020 0
  • All Northern City line trains between Moorgate and Finsbury Park are now controlled using ETCS digital in-cab signalling.
    Northern City line trains now using digital in-cab signalling
    13 November 2024 0
  • Crossrail governance transfers to TfL
    1 October 2020 0
  • Kevin Whiteman to be next chairman of Severfield
    17 June 2020 0
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