New rail link will mean better freight journeys from Felixstowe
6 September 2012 | By Network Rail
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved plans to remove a major bottleneck near Ipswich...
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Alstom will supply 8 additional Coradia Nordic regional trains to the Swedish operator Östgötatrafiken
6 September 2012 | By Alstom
Alstom has received an order from Östgötatrafiken AB...
Bombardier Sifang signs variation contract for high speed trains in China
5 September 2012 | By Bombardier
Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd., has been awarded a variation order by the Chinese Ministry of Railways...
ERTMS Solutions at Innotrans 2012 – Workshop on automatic ERTMS trackside testing
5 September 2012 | By ERTMS Solutions
Join us at Innotrans 2012, at Hall 6.2 Stand 208 to discover our 2012 innovations...
Rail Franchising
3 September 2012 | By Department for Transport (DfT)
On the 15 August 2012 the DfT announced to the London Stock Exchange that it intended to award the InterCity West Coast franchise to First West Coast Limited...
New traffic management system signals better, more efficient railway for Britain
29 August 2012 | By Network Rail
Network Rail’s plans for a more affordable, higher performance railway...
Go-Ahead companies gear up for Paralympics with more than 1 million extra seats
29 August 2012 | By Go-Ahead
Go-Ahead’s train companies are adding more seats...
Signalling Solutions wins about €8 million contract to deliver pilot traffic management system to Network Rail
29 August 2012 | By Alstom
Signalling Solutions Ltd (SSL) has been awarded a contract worth €8 million...
Network Rail’s flying app means faster emergency response
24 August 2012 | By Network Rail
A smartphone application developed has linked its helicopters to emergency services and track crews...
Czech State Railways orders Intercity trains worth about 100 million Euros
23 August 2012 | By Siemens
Siemens has won an order from Czech State Railways Ceske Drahy (CD) to supply seven seven-car Railjet trains...
Siemens to equip Matterhorn- Gotthard Bahn with additional control and safety equipment
22 August 2012 | By Siemens
Siemens has received the order from Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn...
Bombardier’s new high speed train design unveiled in Italy
20 August 2012 | By Bombardier
The groundbreaking train design for cost efficient, high capacity transport will be exhibited at InnoTrans 2012...
First phase of Sweden’s biggest multi-modal transport contract underway
20 August 2012 | By Arriva
Arriva begins the first phase of Sweden’s largest integrated multi-modal public transport tender...
Southeastern announces 7.7 million passenger journeys made during London 2012 Olympic Games
16 August 2012 | By Go-Ahead
Approximately 1.4 million of those passenger journeys were made on the Javelin® service...
Key statistics for the 19 franchised train operating companies published
16 August 2012 | By Office of Rail Regulation (ORR)
The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) has published key statistics for the 19 franchised train operating companies...