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From Russia above
A new airport rail link has been launched connecting Knevichy Airport and Vladivostok. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev officially opened the new service.Aeroexpress Vladivostok...
Rail Projects
Tunnelling students surface
Over 1,000 new students have now completed their training at the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy in Ilford, east London.The Academy, which opened last...
Events
Russia backs international rail links
Sochi, in Russia, will host the 2014 Winter Olympics and the Russian Grand Prix.
No less dramatic was the recent Seventh International Rail Business Forum....
Infrastructure
More railways please
People want more railways, according to a study by Network Rail.According to those questioned the rail industry should be confident and ambitious. From chefs...
High Speed Rail
HS2 will build on Olympic success
Andy Milne spells out four reasons why the rail industry and Britain needs High Speed Two.As the surge of national optimism reached its crescendo...
Rail News
Cost benefit bonus for IEP
The new fleet of IEP trains to be built at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham will provide better value for money than an equivalent...
Rail Business
Milton Keynes – Home of Railway Values
At first glance the choice of Milton Keynes as the new headquarters of Network Rail seems eccentric.Look a little closer and the move is...
Rail Projects
Olympic win for Slough
Jeanette Chippington, gold medal winning Paralympian, joined local leaders and staff from First Great Western and Network Rail to celebrate Slough Railway Station’s multimillion...
Rail News
Soho coup for Crossrail
Plans for a £1 billion pound redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road by Crossrail will help regenerate Soho creating a new cultural and retail focus...
Infrastructure
Signalling in the frame
New framework signalling contracts governing the next ten years will introduce industry stability, improve efficiency and reduce costs.Three framework contracts have now been decided,...
Infrastructure
Spring Holiday progress
Network Rail and its contractors successfully completed a busy Easter period of engineering works across the whole country, including Olympic critical sites.Engineers and rail...
Rail News
Budget Boost for Northern Hub
The spring budget had further good news for the Northern Hub capacity increase project.In a further show of confidence in railways Chancellor George Osborne...
Infrastructure
Ada and Phyllis Get to Work
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and transport secretary Justine Greening have officially launched the start of Crossrail tunnelling during a ceremony at Westbourne...
Rail News
Desert railway planned
A new 200 mile railway stretching from the Red Sea port of Eilat to Tel Aviv has been approved by the Israeli government.As well...
Rail Projects
Crossrail casts tunnel lining
A new tunnel segment manufacturing plant has begun full operations in west London.Construction staff are hard at work pouring the first batch of 250,000...
Rail Projects
Kirkgate kudos
A £1.5 million project will complete the transformation of long-neglected Wakefield Kirkgate.Already the grade II listed station, which dates from 1854, has been tidied...
Rail News
Boxing clever at Paddington
Construction of the new Crossrail station at Paddington is pressing ahead as excavation of the station box gets underway.The new Crossrail station will be...
Rail News
Chicken run
Work started this month on repairing the collapsed embankment, known as ‘Chicken Curve’ just north of Winchcombe on the volunteer-run Gloucester and Warwickshire Steam...
