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March 14, 2024 | Main line

Alstom enters British passenger operating market

Joint venture will run open-access services between London, Shrewsbury and Wrexham.

March 7, 2024 | Policy

British rail regulator approves open-access London-Scotland service

Grand Union Trains will initially operate diesel trains on the electrified line between London and Stirling.

October 26, 2023 | Infrastructure

Crowd management improvements required at Euston station

The British rail regulator has issued an improvement notice to Network Rail.

April 7, 2022 | Fleet

Entire British class 80X fleet requires modifications to combat cracking issue

Six-year repair programme to the Hitachi-built trains will include trains not yet manufactured.

September 24, 2021 | Europe

More freight travelling by rail in Britain than before Covid-19 pandemic

British operators achieve 1.3% increase in net tonne-km of freight transported compared with April-June 2019.

July 26, 2021 | Fleet

IRJ in brief - fleet: ÖBB tenders for DMU hire from 2023; first Newag Impuls 2 for Warsaw; Hitachi open access EMUs testing in Britain

500th AC44 locomotive built by Wabtec in Brazil.

June 7, 2021 | Fleet

ORR confirms review into Hitachi cracks

BRITISH regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has launched a review of the lessons that can be learned from the discovery of cracks on Hitachi class 385 and class 800 series trains.

August 17, 2020 | Europe

RAIB confirms landslip caused Stonehaven derailment

BRITAIN’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has confirmed that the 06.38 southbound service from Aberdeen to Glasgow Queen Street, which derailed near Stonehaven on August 12, did so following a collision with a landslip.

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