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Good News Friday: Your weekly roundup of positive rail news!
In this week's 'Good News Friday', we cover CrossCountry's safety support, a possible name for Northern's resident cat, and Alfie's day at Thameslink!
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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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Network Rail: Freight train derailment in Preston
Network Rail have urged passengers to check before they travel, after a freight train derailment near Preston.
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QTS Group empowers future rail experts at industry event
QTS Group, the national rail contractor, ran their first futures sessions at their HQ in South Lanarkshire, working with rail experts.
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Telent’s railway electrical control system goes live with major upgrade
Telent's groundbreaking railway electrical control system has gone live, as part of a major upgrade with Network Rail.
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New Southern timetable adds 5,000 South Coast seats from 3 June in response to customer feedback
Southern have issued a reminder that their new timetable will come into effect in June, adding 5000 South Coast seats.
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Network Rail’s Eastern Region launches new partnership to streamline infrastructure improvement work over the next five years
Network Rail's Eastern Region have launched a new partnership to streamline infrastructure improvement work over a five year cycle.
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OFF THE RAILS: ORR’s Director of Economics, Finance and Markets, Will Godfrey
In this week's 'Off the Rails', I spoke to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR)'s Director of Economics, Finance and Markets, Will Godfrey.
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Network Rail begins repairing the world-famous Glenfinnan viaduct
Network Rail have begun repairs on the world-famous Glenfinnan viaduct, working with engineering company AmcoGiffen.
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Keeping Rail Relevant
Under its new owner, the Core Valley Lines is fusing an historic rail network with cutting edge technologies. Rennie Chadwick explores what transport owners globally can learn from its approach.
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OFF THE RAILS: Connected Places Catapult’s Head of Rail Business Development, Kristoff van Leeuwen
In this week's 'Off the Rails', I spoke to Head of Rail Business Development at Connected Places Catapult, Kristoff van Leeuwen.
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COWI celebrates contract award for Transpennine Route Upgrade
COWI are currently celebrating a contract awarded for the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) between Stalybridge and Huddersfield.
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RDG remind customers to check services before travel
The UK-based Rail Delivery Group (RDG) have issued a reminder to rail customers to check services before they travel, ahead of strikes.
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Global Railway Review Issue 2 2024
Spring has, apparently, sprung and we welcome our second issue of Global Railway Review to 2024! The last couple of months has felt like the industry is beginning to warm-up, a build-up of energy and anticipation for what the rest of the year might hold. At the end of March,…
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Good News Friday: Your weekly roundup of positive rail news!
In this week's good news roundup, RBF's raffle, Network Rail's outreach to primary schools and Northern's connection to the Railway Children!
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Major milestone reached for UK’s first ‘Beacon’ bridge at Garforth as bridge deck installed
A major milestone has been reached for the first 'Beacon' bridge at Garforth, as engineers craned in the deck in night works.