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Autumn 2017 Budget: Impact on rail
After the whirlwind has now settled on the UK’s 2017 Autumn Budget announcements, what decisions concern projects within the rail sector?
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Railway Industry Association (RIA)
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) is the voice of the UK rail supply community. RIA helps to grow a sustainable, high-performing, railway supply industry, and to export UK rail expertise and products. RIA has 300+ companies in membership across the whole of railway supply, covering a diverse range of products and services and including both multi-national companies and SMEs.
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RIA joins forces with Network Rail to solve Standards Challenge
The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has joined forces with Network Rail to examine how the industry can modernise standards to ensure they allow for innovation and greater cost efficiencies in the supply chain.
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Foreword: Collaboration in electrification
3 December 2014 | By Jeremy Candfield, Director General, RIA
Since privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s, one of the strengths of the UK railway industry has been the active involvement of a wide range of private sector companies, bringing technologies and skills from other sectors as well as adding the commercial and competitive disciplines of the private sector,…
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Driving infrastructure value through collaboration
29 November 2012 | By Jeremy Candfield, Director General, Railway Industry Association (RIA); Steve Featherstone, Track Programme Director, Network Rail and David McLoughlin, Finance and Commercial Director, Infrastructure Projects, Network Rail
The railway industry in Britain continues to be characterised by substantial growth in ridership and in major investment programmes. Infrastructure investment in the mainline railway is undertaken predominantly by two main parties working together: the infrastructure manager, Network Rail, as clients, and its extensive supply chain. More than 170 supply…
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New trains for old? Rolling stock maintenance and replacement in the UK
6 April 2011 | By Jeremy Candfield, Director General, Railway Industry Association (RIA)
Governments, passengers and freight customers have rising expectations and aspirations for the rail system. There is a constant pressure to drive up availability and reliability, and to drive down costs, while assuring and improving safety. At the same time, users want improved service levels, with increasing demands for better information…
