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Jacobs wins place on TfL’s transport planning & impact monitoring services framework
Jacobs, the international firm of consulting engineers, has secured 13 positions on Transport for London’s (TfL) renewed Transport Planning & Impact Monitoring (including Health & Safety and Environmental) Services Framework.
The contract award includes include key service areas such as...
General Interest
Hull Trains to suspend services for a third time
Following news of the latest lockdown, Hull Trains is temporarily suspending all services from 00:01 Saturday 9 January 2021.
This is the third time the rail operator has hibernated the business following national restrictions calling for people to stay at...
General Interest
King’s Cross has successful Christmas
A successful six-day closure of King’s Cross station over Christmas allowed for the reconstruction of the Camden Sewer, which runs beneath the tracks. Network Rail’s teams lifted all four tracks entering the station for the first time in over...
General Interest
Island Line says goodbye to its much-loved trains
The Island Line, the Isle of Wight’s railway, has been operated since 1989 by refurbished former London Underground trains, built originally in 1938.
However, they have now operated their last service. The final Class 483 train rolled out of Ryde...
General Interest
Southeastern and Network Rail get food supplies to stranded lorry drivers
Southeastern and Network Rail staff worked late into the night on Christmas Eve to get food to lorry drivers who were stranded on the approaches to Dover due to the sudden border closure. An estimated 6,000 lorry drivers were...
Company News
Avanti completes Voyager fleet overhaul
Avanti West Coast has completed its overhaul of the Voyager fleet, following a six-month programme.
The £8.3 million overhaul, which was carried out at Bombardier’s depot in Ilford, east London, includes new Standard Class seats covers and carpets as well...
Industry News
Temporary Tyne and Wear Metro Depot commissioned
Tyne and Wear Metro’s new temporary depot, which has been built to welcome the new £362 million train fleet, has officially become operational.
Located at Howdon in North Tyneside, the new depot will be used to on-track the new Metro...
Careers
Network Rail joins HS2 skills, jobs and training pledge in London
Construction firms involved in the building of HS2, including Network Rail, have set out long-term plans so people in seven London boroughs will benefit from the project.
Network Rail has joined the others already in the scheme, made up of...
General Interest
Greater Anglia invests in keeping its new trains clean
Greater Anglia, which is commissioning three new fleets of trains (Classes 720, 745 and 755) has taken steps to keep them in tip-top condition by installing a new carriage washer machine at its Crown Point depot in Norwich.
The new...
Electrification
GWR’s bi-mode trains to become tri-modes
The 36 Class 802 trains operated on the Great Western main line by GWR may soon be running on battery power, after an exclusive agreement has been signed Hitachi Rail and Eversholt Rail.
With their sleek design, Hitachi’s trains have...
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c2c issues record-breaking £10,000 fine to persistent fare evader
Train operator c2c Trenitalia says its work to crackdown on fare evasion and ticketing fraud has led to one...