Archive for category: HSEQ

Crossrails Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve ready thanks to BAM Nuttall

Crossrail has taken another step towards the creation of a new 1,500 acre RSPB nature reserve with the completion of a new 180 metre jetty at Wallasea Island in Essex.  The jetty will receive in the order of 4.5 million tonnes of material excavated du...
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Crossrails Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve ready thanks to BAM Nuttall

Crossrail has taken another step towards the creation of a new 1,500 acre RSPB nature reserve with the completion of a new 180 metre jetty at Wallasea Island in Essex.  The jetty will receive in the order of 4.5 million tonnes of material excavated du...
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Colin Wheeler writes… Rail Safety Summit 2012

Written by Colin Wheeler One hundred and sixty attended the Rail Safety Summit on April 19th at Loughborough University. Ninety separate companies and organisations attended. Whilst the industry is vibrant, healthy and growing, work is uneven and Gover...
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Colin Wheeler writes… Rail Safety Summit 2012

Written by Colin Wheeler One hundred and sixty attended the Rail Safety Summit on April 19th at Loughborough University. Ninety separate companies and organisations attended. Whilst the industry is vibrant, healthy and growing, work is uneven and Gover...
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Network Rail fined £150,000 over rail worker incidents

Network Rail has been fined £150,000 and ordered to pay costs of £32,500 following a prosecution brought by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) for breaches of health and safety law which led to the death of one Network Rail maintenance worker, and t...
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Network Rail plans to reduce level crossing misuse in Lincoln

Network Rail is developing plans to reduce the risk of misuse at High Street and Brayford Wharf level crossings in Lincoln. The company is seeking to improve pedestrian access around the city through provision of two new footbridges and is now inviting...
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Southeastern to be sentenced over station overshoot

Train operator Southeastern is to be sentenced over an incident on 8 November 2010 when one of its trains ‘overran a station by almost two-and-a-half miles’. The incident involved a commuter train travelling from Charing Cross to Hastings ...
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Scooter hit by train at level crossing

Network Rail has said at 1.10pm yesterday afternoon (May 22, 2012) the driver of the 12.18pm First Great Western London Paddington to Taunton service reported hitting a vehicle at the Ufton Nervet level crossing in Berkshire. The vehicle was identified...
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Medically trained BTP officers deployed on the Tube

Medically trained British Transport Police officers will be deployed across the Tube network later this month to help ‘speed up the response when passengers are taken ill’ on the Underground, Transport for London has said. BTP and TfL have ...
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Medically trained BTP officers deployed on the Tube

Medically trained British Transport Police officers will be deployed across the Tube network later this month to help ‘speed up the response when passengers are taken ill’ on the Underground, Transport for London has said. BTP and TfL have ...
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Lengthy recycling

Recycling is not only good for the environment, it is also a good way to save money. Network Rail has been getting very involved in recycling over the past few years, probably for both reasons, with new recycling centres at Whitemoor Yard and Westbury ...
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