Rail Freight
GB Railfreight opens £5.75m maintenance hub in Peterborough
GB Railfreight has opened its state-of-the-art Maintenance Hub. Located alongside the East Coast Mainline, the £5.75m facility, represents one of the most substantial investments in the rail freight sector this year.
Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper MP, attended the...
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Detailed testing begins on Tyne and Wear Metro fleet
Tens of thousands of detailed tests are taking place to get the new Tyne and Wear Metro train fleet ready for customer service, in what is one of the most important projects in the network’s history.
Stadler, the Swiss train...
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Avanti West Coast’s Pendolino fleet upgrade reaches major milestone
The UK’s largest ever fleet upgrade has passed a major milestone with the refurbishment of its final 11-carriage Pendolino.
Work has now begun on the remaining 21 nine-carriage trains which make up the 56 strong Avanti West Coast fleet.
Widely regarded...
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Rail Minister officially opens Thanet Parkway station
On Friday 8 September, Rail Minister Huw Merriman formally opened Thanet Parkway, Kent’s first new railway station in eight years.
The minister attended the celebratory opening event alongside a number of invited guests and senior representatives from Network Rail, Southeastern,...
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Network Rail signalling scheme reaches major milestone
As part of its four-year resignalling programme to improve reliability, Network Rail has successfully switched on 116 new state-of-the-art digital signals on the railway across parts of south west London and Berkshire.
The railway reopened as planned on Saturday 2...
Infrastructure
Key rail upgrades set to take place between Newcastle and Edinburgh
Network Rail and train operators on the East Coast Main Line are urging passengers to check before travelling as key upgrades take place on the route between Newcastle and Edinburgh.
Across four consecutive weekends in September and October, teams from...
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Rail Minister meets apprentices at Siemens Mobility’s Rail Village
Rail Minister, Huw Merriman, visited the Siemens Mobility rail manufacturing facility at Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, on Friday 18 August. He was given a tour of the site by Sambit Banerjee, joint CEO Siemens Mobility UKI, where he...
Infrastructure
Network Rail set to reach major milestone of £116m reliability-boosting resignalling scheme with engineering work continuing this weekend in south west London
From Saturday 19 August to Friday 1 September, buses will replace South Western Railway (SWR) trains during a three-part closure of the railway between Barnes and Virginia Water, Windsor & Eton Riverside and Hounslow, to allow the newly installed...
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UK’s largest railway franchise appoints Telent to maintain critical assets at 156 stations
Rail customers will benefit from informed, safe and secure experiences at 156 stations following the awarding of a maintenance contract to critical communications specialists Telent.
Telent will provide planned and reactive maintenance services for more than 4,000 security and information...
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Testing underway of first new Piccadilly line train
First train off the production line now undergoing intensive testing at the Siemens Mobility Test and Validation Centre ahead of roll out in 2025
The first of the 94-Siemens Mobility built new trains for Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Piccadilly line...
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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds
New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge...