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Welsh transfer avoided costs

TRANSPORT FOR Wales has explained that the orderly transfer of...

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Tracsis buys Flash Forward

LEEDS-BASED TECHNOLOGY company Tracsis has established a new...

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TRIAL OF QUARTERLY TIMETABLE CHANGES

FOUR MAJOR changes of the timetable will take place this year...

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NPR ROUTE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE

CONCERN OVER ‘CHEAP AND NASTY’ LIVERPOOL TO MANCHESTER ROUTE...

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FREIGHT IN THE NORTH WEST

Rail Freight Group The North West has always been a...

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IN BRIEF

■ Plans have been submitted by Network Rail for a 209-metre...

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Covid - they think it’s all over

Ian Walmsley

On the railway nothing is ever easy, and reducing Covid risk...

Ian Walmsley
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HS2 gets building

The start of tunnelling through the Chilterns is just one of...

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Europe View

Keith Fender

EUROPEBATTERY TRAINS WINNING ALTERNATIVE TRACTION DEBATEThe first...

Keith Fender
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FIFTH HST CARRIAGES FOR SCOTRAIL

SCOTRAIL HAS taken delivery of its full complement of Inter7City...

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Knowles is Head of Site for Long Marston

PORTERBROOK HAS appointed Mark Knowles as Head Site for the Long...

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PARTNERSHIP APPROACH NEEDED

RAIL PROJECT Speed (Swift Pragmatic and Efficient Enhancement...

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Between the Lines

Chris Stokes

It’s now the mainstream view that the days when five day a...

Chris Stokes
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HOPWOOD HOPES FOR FURTHER ELECTRIFICATION

THERE IS still a case for electrification to Swansea and Bristol...

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TRANS-BRITAIN SCHEME COULD BE NPR ALTERNATIVE

AN ALTERNATIVE to the current HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail...

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£66 MILLION FUNDING FOR HEADBOLT LANE

£66 MILLION from the Transforming Cities Fund has been allocated...

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A FUNNY OLD YEAR

Welcome As I write this, it is almost exactly one year...

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Soon will the hatchet man come

A RECENT recruitment advertisement from the Department for Transport...

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Boring the Chiltern Tunnels

Work on longest tunnels set to begin HS2’s first two...

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UP TO FIVE MORE YEARS FOR NORTHERN

THE CONTRACT for the Department for Transport’s Operator of...

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HANDFORTH TO BE WALES & WESTERN MD

MICHELLE HANDFORTH will join Network Rail this summer as Regional...

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Trackwatch

A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground...

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Buckingham wins Beckton job

BUCKINGHAM GROUP Contracting has won a package of work on the...

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ANGLO-SCOTTISH WCML IMPROVEMENT FUNDING

THREE-HOUR GLASGOW TO LONDON TIMING MOOTED DEVELOPMENT...

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FELIXSTOWE TO WAKEFIELD SERVICE

GB RAILFREIGHT has started a new intermodal service from the...

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4LM MIGRATION CONTINUES

A FURTHER stretch of London Underground’s sub-surface lines...

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DIGITAL COUPLINGS: THE EVE OF THE WAR

Ian Walmsley

The humble freight wagon coupler is going digital – or is it?...

Ian Walmsley
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HS2 BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

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ASHINGTON TARGETS 2023 OPENING

James Abbott

A half-hourly service to Newcastle is planned, reports ...

James Abbott
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Hitachi starts welding at Newton Aycliffe

HITACHI RAIL has begun welding activities at its Newton Aycliffe...