Industry News
29.11.2023
VolkerRail receives three CN Workforce Awards
The CN Workforce Awards aims to recognise the outstanding achievements of those striving to make the construction industry and their organisations a great place to work; improving the construction industry’s reputation and employment practices.
In a …
29.11.2023
Alstom supports a study jointly conducted by UIC, the University of Birmingham and Roland Berger demonstrating the importance of rail infrastructure financing to achieve global sustainable development goals, ahead of COP28
Investing in 192,000km of rail infrastructure in low- and lower-middle-income countries could avoid of up to 1.8 Gt of CO2 emissions by 2050, a significant contribution to achieving global sustainability goals
This would also bring …
29.11.2023
HS2’s River Blythe Viaduct designs reflect community feedback
HS2’s designs for the River Blythe Viaduct, including landscape plans responding to community feedback, will be on show at an event in Hampton in Arden, Solihull, on Tuesday 5 December.
The River Blythe Viaduct will be …
29.11.2023
Extensive Christmas engineering work will help to deliver significant benefits for passengers and continue with exciting new station builds.
Passengers wishing to travel by rail this Christmas are being encouraged to check before travelling as extensive engineering work will be taking place across the Anglia region.
Major station construction programmes, track renewals, overhead line …
27.11.2023
Commuters look forward to more reliable services as first passenger trains run to City of London using digital signalling
Great Northern commuters today began travelling to the City of London in trains controlled by cutting-edge digital in-cab signalling (European Train Control System, or ETCS), giving them a more reliable, greener service.
This is a significant …
27.11.2023
Story awarded Balgray Station contract
Network Rail has appointed Story Contracting to design a new railway station on the Neilston line in the area south of Barrhead.
The station will be located off Balgraystone Road, between Patterton and Neilston stations. Plans …
27.11.2023
Alstom unveils the world’s first Eurobalise with integrated encoding capabilities – a pioneering breakthrough in rail safety
Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has introduced a groundbreaking Eurobalise (a safety-critical device transmitting data from tack to train) that integrates simplified ERTMS encoding functionality to serve multiple use cases. This innovative …
27.11.2023
SSP launches Café Local, a new F&B and retail brand
SSP has launched a new travel-focused café and retail store concept called Café Local, which has been developed for UK regional rail stations.
The first fifteen Café Local stores have opened at stations around the country, …
24.11.2023
Siemens Mobility celebrates 150 years of signaling and railway automation technology ‘Made in Lower Saxony’
Industry’s largest and oldest rail infrastructure site develops and produces signaling and rail automation technology for the world
Prominent guests at yesterday’s ceremony included Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Olaf Lies, …
24.11.2023
Alstom, Transdev and the ‘Sud’ Region unveil the first Omneo Sud train that will enter into service on the first regional line open to competition in France, between Marseille, Toulon and Nice
Olivier Delecroix, Vice-President Marketing & Sales, Alstom France, and Thierry Mallet, CEO of Transdev, presented to Renaud Muselier, President of the Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Region and Deputy Chairman of ‘Régions de France’, the first Omneo train …
