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The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has set out five 'tests' to ensure the establishment of Great British Railways, the new railway structure, will be a success. The five tests provide clear criteria for the new railway body to ensure it...

Hitachi Rail and its subsidiary, Perpetuum, have been awarded a contract by Network Rail to develop a real-time digital solution that monitors, and eventually predicts, sections of track that affect ride quality and require maintenance. The monitoring equipment is currently...

Network Rail has awarded a major design and delivery contract to Alstom as part of a £194 million investment for the renewal of the signalling systems in the Cambridge area. The Cambridge re-signalling project aims to replace the existing systems...

HS2’s Station Construction Partner for Euston station, a joint venture between Mace and Dragados (MD JV), is ramping up procurement this month, as it starts to offer packages worth over £500 million to help deliver HS2’s brand-new station at...

HS2 is continuing its commitment to ‘Build the Future’ – the theme for this year’s National Apprenticeship Week – by recruiting for more talented individuals to play a part in the construction of Britain’s new high capacity, zero carbon...

Avanti West Coast has launched a campaign to help recruit 40 new Train Drivers at locations throughout the UK in 2022. The initiative aims to encourage more people, especially women, to consider the role as a realistic career to pursue. Earlier...

The prospect of high-speed journeys adding extra capacity into the rail network, and helping to close the distances between towns and cities in the Midlands and North, took a giant leap forward today (24 January 2022) as the Bill...

A new report published on 20 January makes it clear that a national high speed rail network, with HS2 at its centre, has an essential role to play in the UK achieving its net zero ambitions by 2050. Published by...

Virtual Reality and real time monitoring by sensors built into HS2’s infrastructure including rails, bridges and overhead power lines will help make Britain’s new high speed rail network one of the world’s most reliable railways. Detailed designs being prepared by...

RAIB has released its report into the derailment and fire involving a tanker train at Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, 26 August 2020. At about 23:04 hrs on 26 August 2020, train 6A11, the 21:52 hrs service from Robeston (Milford Haven) to Theale,...