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Rail cyber-resilience collaboration
20/12/2024

Rail cyber-resilience collaboration

INTERNATIONAL: A memorandum of understanding to collaborate on enhancing the cyber-resilience of rail operations was signed by rail cybersecurity specialist RazorSecure, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EKE Electronics during the 18th UK-Japan Rail Working Group hosted by the...

Train driver psychometric assessment standard updated
20/12/2024

Train driver psychometric assessment standard updated

UK: The Rail Safety & Standards Board has updated the standard related to psychometric assessments in train driver selection, to provide greater clarity on the process and validity of psychometric tests and to increase the number of attempts that can be made at passing from two ...

Tyne & Wear Metro's first Stadler train enters passenger service
19/12/2024

Tyne & Wear Metro's first Stadler train enters passenger service

UK: The first of the 46 custom-designed Class 555 trainsets that Stadler is supplying to replace the Tyne & Wear Metro fleet entered passenger service on December 18. 'We are now witnessing the first steps towards making Metro, once again, a world-class system the whole region ...

UK railway news round-up
19/12/2024

UK railway news round-up

This week's round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

Scottish diesel operations to continue to 2045
18/12/2024

Scottish diesel operations to continue to 2045

UK: The deadline for removing diesel powered passenger trains from the Scottish rail network has been put back from 2035 to 2045. The Scottish government is undertaking an update of the Rail Services Decarbonisation Action Plan which it published in July 2020 in collaboration with Network ...

Questions remain for the rail sector in English devolution plans
18/12/2024

Questions remain for the rail sector in English devolution plans

UK: The rail sector has welcomed the outline plans for local politicians to have greater control of passenger rail services which are set out in the government's white paper on devolution in England, but questions remain about the future scope and structure.

MPs to investigate how rail investment pipelines could help the supply industry
18/12/2024

MPs to investigate how rail investment pipelines could help the supply industry

UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee is to launch an inquiry into how the government could ensure a stable pipeline of projects and procurements to end 'boom and bust' in the supply industry and give passengers, staff, suppliers and investors more certainty about development priorities. ...

ScotRail begins HST replacement process
18/12/2024

ScotRail begins HST replacement process

UK: ScotRail has formally begun the procurement of trainsets to replace the current fleet of 25 HST sets used on Inter7City services. On behalf of Transport Scotland, the operator is seeking proposals for the supply of a single class of existing rolling stock to operate a ...

Skills Late to help young people kickstart transport careers
18/12/2024

Skills Late to help young people kickstart transport careers

UK: The London Transport Museum is to host a free Skills Late event on January 30 where people aged 16 to 25 and their friends and family can meet employers and learn about job opportunities in transport, engineering and infrastructure. Businesses highlighting their entry level vacancies, apprentice...

Northumberland Line service from Newcastle to Ashington launched
17/12/2024

Northumberland Line service from Newcastle to Ashington launched

UK: Cheers greeted the arrival of the first Northumberland Line passenger service at Ashington station on December 15, more than 60 years after services to Newcastle were withdrawn in November 1964 and the route became freight-only. Initially only the new stations at Ashington and Seaton Delaval ...

London stations added to Google Street View
17/12/2024

London stations added to Google Street View

UK: Google Street View now includes 18 London rail and Underground stations, with a further 18 to be added by the end of the year. Google used 360° backpack cameras to create virtual representations of London's busiest stations. These will help people plan journeys and more ...

Greater Anglia expands paper roll ticketing
16/12/2024

Greater Anglia expands paper roll ticketing

UK: Following a trial backed by the Rail Delivery Group, a further 194 Scheidt & Bachmann ticket machines on Greater Anglia routes are to switch to using paper roll ticket instead of the traditional orange magnetic stripe cards. S&B worked with Nagels to develop the recyclable ...

CIRO to launch rail MBA course with Keele University
13/12/2024

CIRO to launch rail MBA course with Keele University

UK: The Chartered Institution of Railway Operators and Keele University are to launch a rail MBA programme in February 2025. This is designed to enable rail professionals to gain access to affordable and industry specific master's level higher education. It will provide senior leader experience, com...

Rail regulator seeks feedback on assessment of assistance to disabled passengers
13/12/2024

Rail regulator seeks feedback on assessment of assistance to disabled passengers

UK: The Office of Rail & Road is asking for views on its plans for annual assessments rating how train operators and Network Rail provide assistance to disabled passengers. The regulator said this would strengthen its ability to hold operators to account for poor performance, highlight ...

Study finds international passenger capacity at London St Pancras could be doubled
13/12/2024

Study finds international passenger capacity at London St Pancras could be doubled

UK: A study has found that international passenger capacity at London St Pancras station could be more than doubled to improve the user experience and potentially facilitate new train services. Station operator HS1 Ltd commissioned the study from customer experience design agency Active Thinking, wh...

‘We grow, they grow': FirstGroup sets out open access rail aims
11/12/2024

‘We grow, they grow': FirstGroup sets out open access rail aims

Following FirstGroup's announcement that it is to order more trains to support its growth drive in the open access market, First Rail Managing Director Steve Montgomery explains the next steps to Rail Business UK.

Aluminium producer leases smart wagons
11/12/2024

Aluminium producer leases smart wagons

UK: VTG Rail UK has secured a 10-year wagon leasing agreement with new customer Alvance British Aluminium, which will take on 20 JPA powder tank wagons retrofitted with VTG's iWagon technology. The wagons are expected to be used by Alvance from June 2025, carrying alumina powder ...

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