Building Bogies

Last month, the rail engineer visited Graz, the historic capital of Styria and Austria’s second city, for the launch of the new SF7000 bogie which Siemens intends to use on the new Desiro City trains that it will shortly be building for the Thameslink programme. During that visit, Siemens’ engineers were keen to show how...
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London Midland to ‘make £1.25m from closing ticket offices’

The RMT has said ‘leaked internal documents show London Midland plan to…

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Rail apprenticeship scheme ‘on right track’

A pioneering apprenticeship scheme run by West Nottinghamshire College has been…

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Parsons Brinckerhoff awarded HS2 contracts

Parsons Brinckerhoff has been awarded two contracts covering the design of both…

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Tensar strengthens Asia Pacific presence

Tensar is appointing Mala Nanda as Vice President and General Manager Asia Pacific,…

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Bombardier and Carillion announce new Infrasig joint venture

Bombardier Transportation and Carillion have announced the launch of a new UK…

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Rapid transport on offer for wildlife at Crossrail site

Wild orchids, fish, reptiles and giant eels have been given new homes thanks to Network Rail following the start of its works on behalf of Crossrail in…

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Amtrak to ‘improve financial performance & customer service’

As part of the company’s ongoing reorganization to align functions and resources with its new strategic plan, Amtrak is moving forward with revamping its Operations management structure by creating four business lines to ‘establish clear accountability for the financial performance of individual trains and to improve customer service delivery’. “Two of the most important strategies...
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Transport partners open new train station at Ellerslie, Auckland

The new, improved Ellerslie train station has been officially opened in central Auckland following an $8m upgrade involving the NZ Transport Agency, Auckland Transport and KiwiRail. Auckland’s Mayor Len Brown led the ribbon cutting celebration at the station accompanied by executives from the NZTA, Auckland Transport and KiwiRail and the project’s contractors. Mr Brown says...
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Transforming Trojans

When the Corus steelworks at Port Talbot needed new, more powerful industrial locomotives for its internal rail system, it turned to Corus Northern Engineering Services at Scunthorpe to design and build them. Four locomotives were built, with many delays and redesigns, between 2008 and 2011. The first “Trojan” locomotive, No.920, was supplied in October 2009,...
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