News - Page 320
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RAIL Features
New trains - coming to a line near you…
Billions of pounds’ worth of new trains are on order, with many more in the pipeline. RICHARD CLINNICK rounds up what’s on order and where they will all go
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Network
GALLERY: D-Train interiors
The interior of Vivarail's D-Train as it carries passengers for the first time on the national network.
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Network
Stagecoach renegotiates contract over projected VTEC losses
Stagecoach negotiating terms of East Coast franchise with DfT due to uncertainty over planned infrastructure upgrades on ECML
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Network
Bombardier wins South Western Aventra contract
£895m deal designed to boost peak-time capacity
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Fleet
First GWR AT300 Class 802 arrives in UK from Japan
First brand new West of England Class 802 arrives in UK from Japan. Enters traffic next year.
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Network
Study claims privatisation cost more than BR - but now outperforms it
Privatised passenger railway could have cost £51 billion more to operate than if British Rail had remained in state hands, a new study suggests.
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Network
Underground Mail Rail opens to the public on July 28
Mail Rail is to open to the public on July 28 as part of the Postal Museum.
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Fleet
Greater Anglia doubles reliability of ‘317s’
Class 317 reliability figures doubled by Greater Anglia over 15 months
