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Curzon Street construction shortlist
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
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.
The third protocol
In April 2019 I wrote ‘Third degree murder’, about the Office of Rail and Road’s effective ban
on extending the third rail network...
HS2’s platform to build
With Notice to Proceed granted for Phase One from London to the West Midlands...
MIKE LYONS & PHILIP SHERRATT
INTER-CITY 20 SEAT OF LEARNING
Last month I made a few recommendations on avoiding repeating...
Ian Walmsley
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