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Images: Network Rail to refurbish 130-year-old footbridge
Network Rail have begun work to fully repair and restore a 130-year-old footbridge at Beverley station in Yorkshire.
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Southeastern to ban e-Scooters
Southeastern are enforcing a ban on e-Scooters from 1 June due to concerns over the fire risk they pose when taken aboard trains.
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TX Logistik order 115 new wagons for intermodal transport
TX Logistik AG has ordered a further 115 double pocket wagons of the T3000 type for intermodal transport.
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Towards a real assessment of Scope 3 emissions by rail operators
Herbert Minarik, Sven Schirmer, Leena Jäger and Matthias Landgraf explain how the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) successfully tackled the first steps of volume data collection.
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Work continues on first section of East Coast Main Line digital signalling
Further engineering work is taking place in late June to prepare what will become the first part of the East Coast Main Line to operate with digital signalling.
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DB use 3D printing to transform train maintenance
Deutsche Bahn have produced 100,000 3D-printed spare parts for train maintenance, allowing them to save time, money and resources.
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Network Rail publish £44 billion five-year plan
Network Rail’s five-year plan for the railway in England and Wales sees increased investment in tackling climate change and improving train performances.
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Q&A with TfW’s Barry Lloyd: The innovative Lab Programme
During Railtex 2023, Barry Lloyd, Head of Customer Experience and Innovation at TfW, spoke exclusively to Global Railway Review about the TfW Lab Programme, detailing what benefits it will offer and how it will affect the customer experience.
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Q&A with Christine Vanoppen of Lineas: Delivering Sustainable Railways
For Global Railway Review’s exclusive Delivering Sustainable Railways feature series, Christine Vanoppen, Chair of the UIC Sustainability Platform and Reputation, Environment and Governance (REG) Manager for Lineas, discusses the importance of implementing ESG objectives correctly and the recent sustainability projects Lineas have been working on.
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UK businesses urged to get HS2 ready with new contracts set to be released
HS2 is searching for more UK companies to progress its civil engineering works, with the next set of multi-million-pound contracts soon to be released.
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LNER, Agility Trains and Hitachi Rail sign pioneering cooperation agreement
The Relationship Charter is a commitment between the three organisations which sets values and behaviours for cooperation over the next three decades.
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Green Cargo leases five new Siemens Vectron locomotives for the Scandinavian corridor
Alpha Trains have announced that Green Cargo has signed a long-term lease agreement for five Vectron locomotives for the Scandinavian corridor.
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Deutsche Bahn orders additional ICE 3neo trains
The order will see Siemens Mobility deliver an additional 17 ICE 3neo trains worth around €600 million to Deutsche Bahn (DB).
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Transpennine Route Upgrade launches sustainable development strategy
The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) programme’s new sustainability strategy titled ‘Our Guiding Compass’ outlines its commitments to delivering environmental benefits, social value and employment opportunities.
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Southeastern reaches fleet upgrade milestone
The 56th upgraded Southeastern train has rolled out of the depot, marking the halfway point of the operator's £10 million fleet upgrade project.