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Extra-wide ticket barriers now open at Gatwick Airport station
Passengers with luggage at Gatwick Airport railway station will now find accessibility easier as new extra-wide ticket gate lines open as part of the station upgrade project.
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Network Rail own, operate and develop Britain’s railway infrastructure; that’s 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals, level crossings and stations. Network Rail also runs 20 of Britain’s largest stations. Here follows our content related to Network Rail.
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Taskforce formed to deliver more reliability during adverse weather
Network Rail, Newcastle University, the Met Office and MetDesk, have teamed up on a Weather Academy pilot programme which aims to identify ways of delivering safer, more reliable train services in Britain during adverse weather.
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Network Rail to carry out upgrade projects over Christmas and New Year
Network Rail says more than 95 per cent of Britain's rail network will be open over Christmas and New Year, despite planned upgrade work taking place to deliver 300 key investment projects.
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Network Rail invest £7.3m to overhaul Salford’s biggest rail station
The much-needed Salford Central station improvements will provide a better travelling experience for passengers and improve train reliability across Greater Manchester.
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Network Rail successfully secure embankment in Morpeth
A £13.2 million Network Rail project to stabilise an embankment near Morpeth Station on the East Coast Main Line has been successful.
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Network Rail to use F1 connectivity technology for infrastructure monitoring
McLaren Applied will provide F1-derived technology to Network Rail that will help them to make informed engineering and maintenance decisions quicker.
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High-definition departure boards installed at Euston station
New £1.5 million departure and arrival boards which have LIDAR cameras that can monitor passenger movements in real time are being installed at Euston station.
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Global Railway Review Weekly News Roundup
Craig Waters, Editor of Global Railway Review, explores what made the headlines in the rail industry during week 07-11 November 2022.
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HS2 Bucks rail freight train expected to take extra 300,000 truck journeys off roads
The first of approximately 1,800 freight trains has arrived at HS2’s new Quainton railhead in a move designed to save carbon in construction.
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Network Rail to use 800-tonne crane to lift derailed cement wagons
Drone footage has been released of a derailed freight train site in Carlisle where Network Rail are installing an 800-tonne crane to recover the wagons.
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Electric wires installed to power greener trains in Greater Manchester
Electric wires have been installed between Manchester and Stalybridge as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade.
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Q&A with RIA’s Darren Caplan and David Clarke: Priorities for UK rail
At InnoTrans 2022, Global Railway Review’s Editor, Craig Waters, met with the Railway Industry Association’s (RIA) Chief Executive, Darren Caplan, and Technical Director, David Clarke, to discuss the priorities for UK rail project delivery, the positives in digital transformation, the RailDecarb21 Campaign success, and moving forward with EDI in the…
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Scotland’s Railway installing new modular feeder station
As part of a £120 million investment to add resilience and capacity into Scotland’s network, Scotland’s Railway are introducing a new modular feeder station.
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First-in-class fitment of ETCS underway on DB Cargo UK locomotive
Work to install the latest version of ETCS on DB Cargo UK's Class 66 locomotive has marked the start of fitment to freight vehicles in the UK as part of the East Coast Digital Programme.
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Transpennine Route Upgrade work continues at Castleford
A new footbridge and signalling system has been installed at Castleford station to help trains run more reliability and keep passengers moving.
