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Electro-Wind Ltd celebrates 45th Anniversary
January 2024 is Electro-Wind Ltd.’s 45th Anniversary. Whilst the first generation started and developed the business for 20 years, the next generation, their current Directors have been committed to leading the company’s growth for the last 25 years.
The company...
Environment
Severe weather will mean speed restrictions for Scotland’s Railway
Speed restrictions will be in place on lines across Scotland on Thursday (December 7) to help keep people safe as heavy rain and high winds are set to hit the country.
The Met Office has published yellow rain warnings covering...
Charity
Railway Mission: Providing a beacon of hope and a lifeline of support
Liam Johnston, Executive Director, Railway Mission
In the bustling world of railways, where the heartbeat of transportation connects towns, cities, and industries, the significance of human connection cannot be overlooked. Just as tracks link destinations, the railway industry has embarked...
High Speed Rail
SPOILed for choice – HS2 reveals third conveyor
HS2 today revealed a new spoil conveyor designed to take around 70,000 lorry journeys off Buckinghamshire’s roads and significantly reduce disruption for local residents during the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line.
The conveyor stretches for 1.3km...
Rail News
EMR to invest £1 million on new customer information screens
East Midlands Railway (EMR) is rolling out a £1 million project to install nearly 200 new customer information screens, including 25 with interactive functions.
The project, which is being rolled out working with suppliers Infotec and Thales, will involve fitting...
Digital Railway
Hitachi Rail on-board digital technology to benefit high-speed rail passengers in France and beyond
Hitachi Rail has signed a new framework agreement, worth up to €77 million with SNCF, to provide on-board digital signalling equipment (bi-standard ERTMS/TVM) for the latest generation of TGV (TGV-M) and existing TGV trains that operate across the French...
Rail News
Engineering In A New Way – Software And Traditional Consultancy – The Best Of Both Worlds – Railway Career Opportunities
The railway community is preparing to congregate again at #Railtex2023 – the industry’s anticipated event that shapes the future of rail in the UK and beyond. Spanning three busy days at the NEC arena in Birmingham, it’s an event...
Careers
From office cleaner to HS2 site engineer in just a year
An aspiring engineer from Nigeria is climbing the career ladder and helping to build Britain’s new railway after being handed a one-off opportunity by Bachy Soletanche, a specialist geotechnics contractor working on HS2, with Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering.
In just...
Industry News
RIA publishes its own Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline update for members, on the three-year anniversary of the RNEP
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has today published its own Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP), three years after the last announcement was made public by the UK Government.
Created in 2019, the RNEP was billed as a ‘new approach for...
High Speed Rail
HS2 begins enormous dig in Bucks/Oxon for two of the route’s longest cuttings
HS2 Ltd has begun work on two of the longest cuttings on the new high speed rail project, where the equivalent of more than twenty Royal Albert Hall’s worth of rock and earth must be excavated to provide a...
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GB Railfreight extends haulage contract with Network Rail
GB Railfreight (GBRf) one of the country’s largest rail freight operators has extended its haulage contract with Network Rail,...