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Wake up call for Lincoln

Rail engineers have come up with a specially designed cyclists and pedestrians bridge to make crossing the railway in Lincoln city centre safer. Plans now...

National Rail Enquiries app hits five million downloads

The National Rail Enquiries app has reached a five million download milestone. Buying tickets by smartphone is proving popular with customers. NRE’s smartphone app for...

Jubilee Joy

Once trailing in popularity, London Underground’s Jubilee line now tops the polls and has become London’s favourite tube service. One in four of those polled...

Sleepers awake

In a further boost for the rail industry the new sleeper factory at Doncaster officially opened in time for the Christmas rush. Work over the...

Managing safety – The need to support those working on track

I did not expect to be writing about track staff being hit by trains again this month. Surely good management means doing the work...

Skycall for East Coast

Almost 400,000 viewers tuned in to watch East Coast rail staff making their small screen debut on Sky 1 HD’s new series All Aboard:...

Starbucks-Bahn

Coffee giant, Starbucks, now has its own carriage on selected Swiss Federal Railways trains. The double decker car sports the distinctive logo on the side...

Focus on fatique at the IOSH rail conference

This year, 25 years after the Clapham disaster, the conference’s main theme was fatigue, one of the significant factors identified by Lord Hidden QC’s...

Locals back East West Railway

The East West Rail Consortium has confirmed an investment of £45 million in the scheme to re- instate the railway between Bedford, Milton Keynes,...

The fall and rise of Britain’s railways

Part 6: Sectorisation This year sees the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Beeching’s ‘The Re-Shaping of British Railways’. Colin Garratt reports 2013 also sees the thirtieth anniversary...

Night rider

New plans for the London Underground will see services extended to run all night – first at weekends and then during the week. From 2015,...

Chinese cheer for HS2

Chinese money could be used to fund HS2. China has built an extensive high speed network and is looking to expand overseas. Says Chinese premier,...

Public back Crossrail 2

Public feedback on Crossrail 2, the proposed north–south cross London rail link – shows 95 per cent of the 14,000 respondents ‘strongly supporting’ or...

Contract extension for GBRf

GB Railfreight is celebrating a Crossrail contract extension. The Crossrail work includes running services from Willesden Euro-terminal to Crossrail’s waste facility in Northfleet. The...

Winter cheer for railways

Central to the government’s National Infrastructure Plan is its continued support for railways. The NIP lists achievements made by the industry and acknowledges that passenger...

Changing places

Houghton International has teamed up with South West Trains to create an apprentice exchange programme. SWT apprentices visit Houghton International’s facilities in Newcastle upon Tyne....

David Cameron encourages apprentices

David Cameron has been encouraging apprentices on a visit to Carillion in Wolverhampton. Carillion says it is the largest single employer of construction apprentices in...

York venue for Women in Rail

Women in Rail held its first development workshop in York recently. Karen Boswell, Managing Director of East Coast Main Line and Malcolm Brown, Chief Executive...