News - Page 51
-
News
Gibb plans HS2 alternative with 155mph Pendolinos
Former Virgin West Coast manager Chris Gibb is putting forward a radical alternative to the cancelled HS2 route between Birmingham and Manchester, writes Peter Plisner
-
News
Trial begins on UK first intercity battery train
Hitachi Rail has begun testing of the UK’s first intercity battery train. Peaking at a power of over 700 kilowatts has been retrofitted onto a TransPennine Express Class 802 “Nova 1” train and is a collaboration between TransPennine Express, Angel Trains and Hitachi Rail.
-
News
Rail board formed for new Liverpool-Manchester rail link
The new Liverpool to Manchester rail link took a step closer to reality as northern mayors convened at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on 22 May to announce the creation of the Liverpool-Manchester Rail Board.
-
News
Transport committee probe balance of power in future GBR
Who holds the power in a future Great British Railways was the focus of the latest transport committee hearing into the draft rail reform bill on 22 May.
-
News
NIC criticises Government’s West Coast ‘do nothing’ policy
The economic prospects of Birmingham and Manchester are being seriously damaged because of the Government’s failure to come up with any plans to improve the West Coast Main Line, to replace the cancelled northern leg of HS2, writes Howard Johnston.
-
News
Level boarding fuels Southeastern’s new trains plan
Southeastern is inviting five train manufacturers to negotiate to replace “as soon as possible” the operator’s 30-year-old Networker fleet that run metro services in London.
-
News
Open access firms labelled ‘parasites’ by union leaders
Open access operators are parasitical and cut passenger choice, two rail union leaders have told the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
-
News
RMT ‘win’ over retention of guards on Barrhead line
THE RMT union has claimed a “significant win” after ScotRail agreed to continue driver-and-guard operation on its £63 million newly electrified line to Barrhead, and its £140m East Kilbride electrification project, on which work started earlier this year.
-
News
Stagecoach settles huge boundary fares legal case
Stagecoach South West Trains (SSWT) has settled a long-running legal case worth £25 million with train passengers in one of the largest class action cases of its kind in the UK.
-
News
Station museum celebrates wartime role of Malvern radar experts
A new museum at Great Malvern railway station recalls the work of the technology experts in Malvern who contributed to Britain’s role in winning the Second World War.
