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Scotland on track to develop greener railways

26 August 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s national economic development agency, is behind a series of projects designed to find more environmentally friendly train and track solutions, as well as bringing jobs and inward investment to Scotland’s manufacturing and […]

Environment

Scottish Government plans to decarbonise Scotland’s rail passenger services by 2035

28 July 2020 Rail Insider 0

Speaking during a visit to ScotRail’s Shields Road electric fleet Depot, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson unveiled Transport Scotland’s ‘Rail Services Decarbonisation Action Plan’. This reflects the Scottish Government’s determination to deliver on its Programme for […]

Business

KH Engineering Services adds solar arrays to four Southeastern depots

18 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

KH Engineering Services (KHES) has now completed the first major deployment of photovoltaic (PV) panels on the UK rail network outside of London on behalf of Southeastern. PV panels generate electricity from daylight. As the […]

Business

DB Cargo to maintain GBRf’s Class 60 fleet

1 July 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Freight operator GB Railfreight (GBRf) has brought ten Class 60 heavy freight locomotive back into service, having acquired them from Colas Rail in 2018. Use of the Class 60 locomotives will allow GBRf to run […]

Environment

HS2 adopts CESAR ECV emissions identification on worksites

22 May 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

As the main civil engineering works to build the Britain’s new high-speed line get underway, HS2 has announced that it will be creating ‘greener’ construction sites –  reducing emissions and controlling air quality – by […]

Environment

Scotrail improves cleanliness by 11%

1 May 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

At a time when everyone is being urged to wash their hands many times a day, and to wear gloves and facemasks in some circumstances, a new report has shown that the cleanliness of trains […]

Environment

Repairs underway on Cumbrian Coast line

26 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 2

Recent inspections at Parton, on the Cumbrian coast, after the area had been pounded by storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, found that the huge waves and gales had caused cracks to appear in a railway […]

Electrification

Grant Shapps addresses rail industry concerns in letter to Transport Select Committee

6 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a letter from Secretary of State Grant Shapps to the Transport Select Committee in which he answers a number of questions about the future of the rail network. […]

Environment

Floods disrupt rail traffic in Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

8 November 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Heavy flooding in Yorkshire and northern Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire disrupted rail services on Thursday 7 October 2019 after heavy rain closed lines throughout the region. Lines between Sheffield and Gainsborough, Rotherham Central and Meadowhall, Shirebrook […]

Business

Hydrogen-powered train to test in Netherlands

31 October 2019 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Alstom’s iLint hydrogen-powered train is to be tested in the Netherlands for the first time. Following an agreement between Alstom, the Province of Groningen, local operator Arriva, Dutch railway infrastructure manager ProRail and energy company […]

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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
  • New trams start to arrive in Manchester
    5 November 2020 0
  • Knorr-Bremse climate targets validated by the Science-Based Targets initiative
    14 July 2023 0
  • PORR consortium to supply HS2 slab track
    5 October 2020 0
  • International competition to shape Britain’s small to medium-sized railway stations
    18 July 2020 2
  • LNER FutureLabs programme puts rail industry at forefront of innovation
    5 May 2020 0
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