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• Plans to take high speed rail to Liverpool ‘quiety dropped’

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  The Liverpool Daily Post has claimed that plans to take a high speed rail line to the edge of Liverpool ‘have been quiet dumped, apparently to save money’. High Speed Two was ‘expected to run at its top speed’ to Manchester and then slow down to run through Liverpool Lime Street. The news agency claims that ...
  6 hours ago

• Northern Hub plans promoted

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  People across the north of England want to see more railways and better services. Network Rail’s biggest ever consultation exercise in the north promoted plans for the Northern Hub and a vision for rail investment across the region. If fully funded the Hub would allow faster, more frequent journeys. It includes the ...
  7 hours ago

• Anger at £20m bonus package for Network Rail bosses just days after company admitted guilt over level crossing deaths of schoolgirls

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 165
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Anger at £20m bonus package for Network Rail bosses just days after company admitted guilt over level crossing deaths of schoolgirls Network Rail admitted three health and safety charges in relation to the deaths of Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13, (pictured) ...
  7 hours ago

• Platform promise for Peterborough

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  More platforms and a new ticket hall feature in a £43m plan to upgrade Peterborough station. The redevelopment heralds longer, more frequent trains and anticipates a surge in passenger volume. Four million people a year use the station and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years. Says Phil Verster, ...
  8 hours ago

• Eurotunnel revenue up in 2011

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  Groupe Eurotunnel has said its revenue in 2011 increased by 16% to €844.8 million. In the Channel Tunnel, Eurotunnel Shuttles sustained a revenue growth of 10%. Eurostar services saw a growth of 2% and carried almost 9.7 million passengers in 2011. A total of almost 19 million people and 17.7 million tonnes of ...
  8 hours ago

• Train derailment causes travel chaos

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  A freight train derailed at Bletchley on the West Coast Main Line last night. The train, which has reportedly caused damage to the line, caused travel chaos for commuters this morning as no trains can run between Milton Keynes and London. London Midland said the line was likely to be cleared this afternoon. Train ...
  8 hours ago

• Rail safety performance moves ahead

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  Latest industry figures suggest that both rail passengers and workers are benefiting from higher levels of safety. The RSSB’s ‘Overview of safety performance for 2011‘ suggests that, rather than increasing in line with growth, the overall number of incidents is decreasing. 2011 was the fourth year in a row where ...
  1 day ago

• New rail car manufacturing plant opens in Russia

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  Vladimir Putin has opened a new rail car building plant in Tikhvin, Russia. The new Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant will become a ‘remarkable benchmark for the Russian industry’, he said. The plant was built in conjunction with the ICT Group and the state development institutes Vnesheconombank and Eurasian ...
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• A Quick Introduction to Ruby on Rails

  
  Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials — Authority: 522
  Time to Ruby dooby do! It can take a lot of time, and be quite boring, to learn a new programming language. A .Net developer will jump up and say why should I even learn it? I am a professional .Net developer and my day job doesn’t give me time (and scope) to learn a new programming language. But, it isn’t like ...
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• Phase one of Network Rail EGIP consultation ends

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  The first phase of a consultation over the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme has been completed. Network Rail has been seeking the public’s views on the project for over seven months. The EGIP project team held over 200 meetings with the public, corporate stakeholders and local authorities. David Simpson, ...
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• Campaign launched to ‘keep London moving’ during 2012 Games

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  A national campaign has been launched to ‘encourage the travelling public’ to ‘Get Ahead of the Games’. ‘Get Ahead of the Games‘ aims to show where and when road and rail networks will be much busier than normal and alternative transport options or routes available. Transport for London has suggested ...
  2 days ago

• Local transport bodies to have control of schemes

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  Transport Secretary Justine Greening  has announced proposals to give local communities and businesses control of decisions and budgets of large transport schemes in their areas. This new system could see capital funding decisions for local schemes devolved to ‘democratically accountable local transport bodies’. ...
  2 days ago

• Bids open for £100m rail station improvement fund

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  The remaining pot of a £100m fund to improve stations in England and Wales is now open for bids from Network Rail, train operating companies and local authorities. The station project was launched by the Department for Transport, the Association of Train Operating Companies and Network Rail in April last year, with ...
  2 days ago

• Delhi Metro to modify passenger information displays

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has revealed plans to modify its S&T software system to provide passengers with more information. The operator wants to be able to show passengers how many carriages an approaching train has. It is expected to take up to three months for the modification to be completed by Alstom ...
  2 days ago

• Navy wants commando mothership in Middle East to support rail guns and Lasers

  
  An Average American Patriot — Authority: 114
  Navy wants commando mothership in Middle East: The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats.In response to requests from U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the ...
  2 days ago

• When it pays to BOGOF

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  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 credit card statement? At sales time the high-street environment can be ...
  2 days ago

• Alstom awarded LGV Est signalling contract

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  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 installation work’ on the line in the €40 million contract. Alstom ...
  2 days ago

• Cow Lane opens to road traffic after rail works

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  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. The work on the northern Cow Lane bridge is expected [...]
  2 days ago

• Futuristic railgun can become real

  
  CY.TALK: VoIP, IP telephony and telecommunications news — Authority: 115
  Military supply company Raytheon announced Monday that it had been awarded a $10 million naval contract to develop a way to supply enough juice to power the whopping gun -- which could someday reshape naval warfare.
  3 days ago

• SIMS searches for new rail signalling apprentices

  
  Rail.co - Global Rail Industry News — Authority: 478
  SIMS – the experts in railway signalling, installation & maintenance services – has launched its search for two new apprentices. Despite mass youth unemployment, the industry is failing to attract new recruits and as a result, the pool of licensed signalling staff is limited and falling. SIMS Managing ...
  3 days ago

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