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Curzon Street construction shortlist

PHILIP SHERRATT

HS2 Ltd has shortlisted three bidders for the construction contract for its Birmingham city centre terminus at Curzon Street.

PHILIP SHERRATT

Metro depot rebuild contract

PHILIP SHERRATT

Stadler has appointed VolkerFitzpatrick to build a new Tyne and Wear Metro depot at Gosforth to accommodate the new trains it is supplying for the system.

PHILIP SHERRATT

East Coast ‘803’ construction underway

Hitachi has begun manufacturing the Class 803s to be introduced by FirstGroup on its East Coast Trains open access service between London and Edinburgh in autumn 2021.

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The third protocol

Ian Walmsley

In April 2019 I wrote ‘Third degree murder’, about the Office of Rail and Road’s effective ban
on extending the third rail network...

Ian Walmsley
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HS2’s platform to build

MIKE LYONS & PHILIP SHERRATT

With Notice to Proceed granted for Phase One from London to the West Midlands...

MIKE LYONS & PHILIP SHERRATT

RAIL REPLACEMENT COACHES

ROGER FORD

RDG's inconvenient truths...

ROGER FORD

Europe View: July 2020

Keith Fender

Welcome to Europe View...

Keith Fender
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INTER-CITY 20 SEAT OF LEARNING

Ian Walmsley

Last month I made a few recommendations on avoiding repeating...

Ian Walmsley
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