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Round one to High Speed 2

HS2 Ltd has opened a Birmingham office to co-ordinate operations. In nine out of ten challenges the courts found for the scheme. The tenth...

Rail division to double as telent powers up

Steve pears, Managing Director for telent Rail, talks about telent’s future growth plans. Last year, the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics brought about a feel-...

Tresham College Link

Vital Skills Training, part of the Vital Services Group, and Tresham college of Further and Higher Education in northamptonshire have signed an agreement to...

Rail artist works at Wolverton

Staff at Railcare in Wolverton have presented Daniel Smith, Head of Engineering at Heathrow Express with an original watercolour depicting the Heathrow Express fleet...

The migration of skills

We are all familiar with the concept of exporting goods from the UK, but what about exporting skills overseas? Writes Lawrence Dobie, education and...

Manchester office for Collins

CEI Collins Engineers Ltd is opening a new office in Manchester. The new office will be run by Gary Hastie, a career railwayman with 35...

Gaining rail business advantage in Britain

Expanding investment in the rail industry offers challenges and opportunities for rail businesses. The Rail Industry Contractors’ Association is all set to help small and...

Twos and Blues speed rail response

Rail engineers and rapid response staff are now travelling to incidents in a dedicated police car compete with red and blue flashing lights and...

County Mayo cure for freight

Monday 4th March was a big day for Iarnród Éireann and Port of Waterford when DFDS Logistics re-launched a container train reconnecting County Mayo...

Record membership for TBF

Wayne Probert, a trackman with network Rail at crewe, has become the 40,000th member of the Transport Benevolent Fund. Mr Probert signed up on 28th...

Electrification for Hull

An ambitious plan to privately finance the electrification of around 70 miles of track between Hull and Selby is being pursued by First Hull...

Rail Safety Summit 2013: Leadership and safety culture

Transport for London Over a hundred and twenty people were present when i opened this year’s Rail Safety Summit. Writes Colin Wheeler I then invited...

Bluebell joins rail network

Saturday, 23rd March saw the Bluebell Railway open its long awaited extension into East Grinstead. Writes Clive Kessell The celebrations took place in a snow...

Glaze and blaze for Newcastle

An £8.6 million project to revamp Newcastle Central station has been welcomed by local people. Its centrepiece will be the pedestrianisation and glazing of the...

Stobart Rail schools campaign

Over a three-week period, Stobart Rail successfully ran three day long depot visits for two local schools. On each occasion the schools were welcomed by...

King’s Cross in satisfaction coup

King’s Cross station has seen a record-breaking jump in customer satisfaction in the year since the award-winning western concourse opened to the public, new...

Northern Ireland Railways: Europe’s untold success story

The success of Northern Ireland Railways is one of Europe’s best kept secrets. Writes Tim Casterton Skirting the edge of Europe, the popular and scenic...

Royal visit to Baker Street

Marking celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the London Underground, the Queen and Prince Philip with the Duchess of Cambridge visited...