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230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
Business

Battery train sets new world record

20 August 2025 Rail Insider 0

A Great Western Railway (GWR) battery-powered train has set a world record, travelling 200 miles without needing a recharge. The new record was set by a Class 230 train, a former London Underground D78 stock […]

Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
Business

Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target

30 July 2025 Rail Insider 0

Unipart, the rail technology-driven supply chain partner with decades of experience in the industry, operates globally, delivering high-performance rail supply chain, engineering, and technology solutions that enhance efficiency and reliability for rail operators and manufacturers. […]

Andy Pyne has been appointed as chief sustainability officer at Unipart.
Appointments

Unipart appoints Andy Pyne as chief sustainability officer

11 September 2024 Rail Insider 0

Supply-chain solutions company Unipart has appointed Andy Pyne as chief sustainability officer, reporting to chief executive officer Darren Leigh. As a member of the executive leadership team, Andy will responsible for setting and delivering Unipart’s […]

Business

Network Rail and Natural Resources Wales work together to secure a greener future

26 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

Network Rail has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with Natural Resource Wales that commits both organisations to work together to drive environmental sustainability for the benefit of communities, create a more resilient railway by being […]

Business

Network Rail suppliers adopt science-based emissions targets

29 June 2023 Rail Insider 0

Network Rail has announced that three-quarters of its supply chain have, by emissions, committed to setting their own science-based emissions targets. In October 2020, Network Rail became the first railway company to set independently verified […]

Business

Artificial intelligence helps to clean up the railway

22 June 2023 Rail Insider 0

Network Rail’s Southern region is using artificial intelligence software to find forgotten scrap materials from the side of the railway so that it can be safely removed. One Big Circle’s video and AI technology captures […]

Business

Hydrogen-powered double-deck buses enter service

28 January 2021 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Europe’s railways aren’t the only public transport operators developing hydrogen power as one way of reducing emissions. Hydrogen is also being used to power buses, and the world’s first fleet of double-decker hydrogen buses officially […]

Infrastructure

New station car park improves Mytholmroyd’s flood defences

15 January 2021 Nigel Wordsworth 1

The West Yorkshire village of Mytholmroyd has been hard-hit by flooding in the past five years, but a new facility at the town’s station will help protect the area. Rail operator Northern has carried out […]

Business

Biodiversity Action Plan defines Network Rail’s environmental goals

4 December 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Network Rail has launched its Biodiversity Action Plan, which lays out how the company intends to protect, manage and enhance the condition of its biodiverse assets over the current five-year Network Rail funding cycle (Control […]

Infrastructure

Two more stations in Hampshire and Surrey are now brighter and greener

29 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Stations on Network Rail’s Wessex route in Hampshire and Surrey are being ‘rewired and relit’ to save as much as 25% in electricity. A total of 32 stations in Hampshire and Surrey are to be […]

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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
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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…
  • 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
  • England’s stations turn purple
    3 December 2020 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
  • Mechan benefits from its French connection
    22 December 2020 0
  • Railway staff attacked at Bournville station
    17 January 2020 0
  • Only 60 per cent of passengers wearing face coverings
    16 July 2020 0
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