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Leadership needed

Drive and leadership at the most senior level will be needed to strengthen the DfT and deliver the next round of passenger railway franchising. In...

New year start for apprentices

A partnership between Vital Rail and Transport for London (TfL) has led to the creation of more than one hundred apprenticeships for 16 to...

Rail heroes honoured

British Transport Police has paid tribute to its brave officers, rail staff, members of the public and a police dog in a special commendation...

Derby debut

The first vehicle of Southern’s 26 five-car class 377/6s has been completed at Bombardier’s Derby works. Static testing of the first train commences in February....

New platform for Railtex

New Year 2013 means another confidence-boosting rail industry exhibition to look forward to. Railtex takes centre stage at Earls Court in London from 30...

Paisley pattern for Unified Railway

A railway electrification project in Scotland has been hailed as the way forward for railway co-operation. ScotRail waived its right to disruption compensation payments from...

What do they do? The Rail Delivery Group

Set up in the wake of the McNulty report, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) was tasked with analysing the 77-page document and working out...

Fast race for HS1

High Speed Rail is popular with the public. That’s the happy new year message from HS1. Over 25 million domestic passenger journeys have been made...

Hitachi completes Rail Enginering Company acquisition

Hitachi Europe has acquired the Railway Engineering Company Ltd from James Fisher and Sons plc. TRE supplies train simulators and automatic routing systems. The move...

Signal School clears 100 years

Former railway signalmen and women are getting together at the Signal School at York’s National Railway Museum to celebrate its centenary in January 2013. The...

Play it again – tram

The king of Morocco has launched the first tram line in Casablanca. King Mohammed VI joined Alstom staff to wave off the first of 74...

Rail plan launched by industry leaders

In a comprehensive display of unity, rail industry leaders have outlined strategies to take forward £37 billion worth of investment, stressing a commitment to...

Rail procurement procedure recognises sustainability

Network Rail Infrastructure Projects has made sustainability a formal part of its procurement process, with five per cent of tenders now hinging on a...

Honours for rail heroes

A welcome host at Warwick Parkway station, the man who designed the InterCity 125 nose cone and a legendary rail manager in the west...

Wheel always have Paris

Dubbed the world’s most romantic metro system, the Paris Metro has turned to an unromantic factory in Market Harborough to keep its passengers moving...

Ludeman heads overseas

Keith Ludeman, former chief executive of the Go-Ahead Group, has joined new international business, Network Rail Consulting, as a non-executive director. Network Rail Consulting, a...

New media for YRP

The Young Railway Professionals (YRP) has launched a brand new website with a social network at its heart. www.youngrailwayprofessionals. org – took its inspiration from...

Sheffield honours for railway graduates

Network Rail has seen 18 of its former apprentices graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with higher national certificates (HNC) in railway engineering this November. In...