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Borders Railway Wins RICS Infrastructure Award

Borders Railway Wins RICS Infrastructure Award

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recognised the Borders Railway as Scottish infrastructure project of the year.

24th Annual Rail Freight Group Conference 2016

24th Annual Rail Freight Group Conference 2016

Image courtesy of Network Rail The 24th Annual Rail Freight Group Conference 2016 will take place in London on 20 April 2016, bringing together high level r...

Tata Steel UK Sells to Greybull Capital for Nominal Consideration

Tata Steel UK Sells to Greybull Capital for Nominal Consideration

Image courtesy of Tata Steel Tata Steel UK Ltd. has sold Long Products Europe to Greybull Capital for a nominal consideration. As part of the agreement, Gre...

TransPennine Express and Angel Trains Order Hitachi AT300 Carriages

TransPennine Express and Angel Trains Order Hitachi AT300 Carriag...

Image courtesy of Hitachi The TransPennine Express, operated by FirstGroup, has placed an order for 95 AT300 Inter-City rail carriages from Hitachi in a dea...

10,000 Homes to be Built Around Stations

10,000 Homes to be Built Around Stations

Image courtesy of Network Rail The UK Communities Secretary Greg Clark has announced a development programme of train stations and surrounding land, providi...

Infrarail 2016 Comes to London

Infrarail 2016 Comes to London

Image courtesy of Infrarail Infrarail, which focuses on rail infrastructure, is coming to London from 12–14 April 2016, bringing together professionals from...

Virgin Trains Offers Cash Compensation as Default

Virgin Trains Offers Cash Compensation as Default

Image courtesy of Virgin Trains Virgin Trains will now offer cash payment (in the form of a cheque) as compensation for delays in excess of 30 minutes on it...

UK DfT Announces West Midlands Franchise Shortlist

UK DfT Announces West Midlands Franchise Shortlist

UK department for transport announce west midlands franchise shortlist to operate the west midlands line from October 2017.

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