When it pays to BOGOF

The hazards of the January Sales are officially over. This is, after all, the February edition of the rail engineer magazine. But did you emerge unscathed? Or are you right now sitting on a can’t-leave-that-there sofa? Or trying not to open the credi...
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Alstom awarded LGV Est signalling contract

Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) has awarded a consortium, lead by Alstom, with a signalling contract for phase 2 of the East European LGV (LGV Est) high speed rail line. Alstom Transport and Legrand SA will carry out ‘all signalling studies and in...
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Alstom awarded LGV Est signalling contract

Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) has awarded a consortium, lead by Alstom, with a signalling contract for phase 2 of the East European LGV (LGV Est) high speed rail line. Alstom Transport and Legrand SA will carry out ‘all signalling studies and in...
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Cow Lane opens to road traffic after rail works

Cow Lane has been reopened to road traffic after the first phase of widening work was completed by Network Rail in Reading. Network Rail started work to remove and replace the southern bridge and lay the new road under the bridge in December last year....
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Record passenger numbers at East Midlands Parkway

According to train operator East Midlands Trains, East Midlands Parkway station has seen a record number of passengers using the station in the last year. The station was opened in 2009 and has seen 450,000 journeys made in the three years since it ope...
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c2c Sprints in to Help Local Running Club

   c2c’s Paul Atherfold is celebrating after recently securing funding of £250 from the National Express Employee Charity Panel to be donated to the…

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Work begins on Perth City Link

Premier Colin Barnett today visited the Perth City Link rail project site to mark the start of work on the Fremantle Line tunnel. He said the $360m rail component, set to be completed in 2014, ‘underpinned the delivery of the entire Perth City L...
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Work begins on Perth City Link

Premier Colin Barnett today visited the Perth City Link rail project site to mark the start of work on the Fremantle Line tunnel. He said the $360m rail component, set to be completed in 2014, ‘underpinned the delivery of the entire Perth City L...
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Thales & Balfour Beatty win £335m Danish rail signalling contract

A consortium of Thales and Balfour Beatty Rail has been awarded a contract by Danish rail operator Banedanmark to update much of the country’s rail signalling system. The two companies will ‘form a collaborative and integrated team’ t...
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Spanish rail operator Renfe to sell train tickets globally via SilverRail

Renfe, the largest rail operator in Spain, has partnered with SilverRail Technologies to make tickets on their entire network available to online travel agents (OTAs), travel management companies and traditional travel agents around the world. SilverRa...
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Network Rail to plead guilty over Elsenham level crossing deaths

A court has heard that Network Rail is to plead guilty to health and safety offences over the deaths of two girls at a level crossing. The Office of Rail Regulation’s prosecution of Network Rail is for breaches of health and safety law which led ...
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Network Rail to plead guilty over Elsenham level crossing deaths

A court has heard that Network Rail is to plead guilty to health and safety offences over the deaths of two girls at a level crossing. The Office of Rail Regulation’s prosecution of Network Rail is for breaches of health and safety law which led ...
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