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Facelift for EMR Barton branch
East Midlands Railway is to spend more than £400,000 upgrading and refreshing all 12 stations along the Cleethorpes-Barton-on-Humber branch.
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Nine-day blockade signals start of £95m upgrade
Part of the Portsmouth Main Line closed for nine days from February 12, at the start of a three-year, £95 million project to upgrade outdated signalling.
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Driver hit by brick thrown at train
Northern is offering a £1,000 reward for information that will catch the hooligan who threw a brick at one of its trains and injured a driver.
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Contest formally launches to find GBR’s new HQ
Ease of access, railway heritage, and alignment “to Levelling Up objectives” are among the criteria for the location of Great British Railways’ headquarters.
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RIA targets events for innovation
A Railway Industry Association programme to encourage innovation, is to include the flagship ‘Innovation Conference’ on April 26/27.
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HS2 searches for innovative SMEs
Applications have opened for HS2 Ltd’s fourth ‘Innovation Accelerator’ programme.
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Lords inquiry seeks views on future transport use
The chairwoman of a House of Lords inquiry focused on “finding out how public transport will be used in the future” has called on the public to submit views.
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Network Rail begins landslip monitoring trial
Network Rail is trialling a monitoring system that will give early warning of landslips.
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McLoughlin vows to fight against NPR downgrade
New Transport for the North Chairman Lord Patrick McLoughlin has commenced his four-year term
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DfT clampdown on ‘tannoy spam’ dismissed as trivial
A pledge made by the Department for Transport to remove unnecessary train announcements has been dismissed as a “PR stunt"
