Business Week: August 18, 2008
by Mark Leftly
Crossrail is inviting five groups to bid to become its partner in a rail link between Heathrow and Essex, with Bechtel said to have the edge.
Continue reading "Bechtel Favored for Huge London CrossRail Plan" »
Financial Times: August 19 2008 03:00
By Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt
Record petrol prices appear to have spurred hundreds of thousands of Germans to ditch their cars for the train, a trend that has buoyed state railway Deutsche Bahn ahead of this autumn's flotation of its train operations.
Continue reading "Rising rail demand pulls Deutsche Bahn ahead" »
BBC News: 17 August 2008
Workers who clean Eurostar have voted to strike on Bank Holiday Monday in a dispute over pay.
The pay dispute has been raging for a number of years
Wilts & Glos Standard: 12th August 2008
By Andy Woolfoot
COMMUTERS are being called upon to join the fight for better rail services in Gloucestershire.
RMT: August 12 2008
FOUR DAYS of strike action by some 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers scheduled to begin on Friday have been suspended by Britain’s biggest rail union after Network Rail agreed to further talks tomorrow.
Railway People: August 12th 2008
Rail entrepreneur Pete Waterman is leading calls for the establishment of an employer-led National Railway Skills Academy.
Western Mail: Aug 11 2008
by Rhodri Clark,
INVESTMENT in a flagship Welsh railway scheme was skimped after the number of people using the trains was “woefully underestimated”, an AM claimed yesterday.
Continue reading "Ebbw Vale rail link is a victim of own success" »
Press Association: 11 August 2008
Thousands of rail passengers have objected to plans by a leading train company to cut the opening hours of some of its ticket offices.
Transport Briefing: 04/08/08
Delivery of the 1,300 new carriages as part of the government's High Level Output Specification (HLOS) for Britain's rail network is to be split into three phases.
Continue reading "HLOS train delivery blueprint updated by government" »
Derby Evening Telegraph: 09-August-2008
A FORMER Transport Minister has called on the Government to give a £1.4bn train-building contract to Bombardier.
Continue reading "Give Derby £1.4 billion train-building contracts" »
BBC News: 8 August 2008
Network Rail chiefs could see their bonuses cut after a report commissioned by rail regulators suggested a raft of sweeping changes.
RMT Circular No: IR191/08
Dear Colleague,
As a result of the appalling attitude of Network Rail's Senior Management it has been decided by the General Grades Committee, after consultation with Area Council Representatives, to call further industrial action.
Continue reading "Harmonisation of Infrastructure Terms & Conditions - Network Rail" »
New Statesman: 07 August 2008
Interview with Clara Osagiede
by Rowenna Davies
The cleaner who convinced London's Tory mayor of the justice of her cause
TAZ.de: 29.07.08
BY RICHARD ROTHER
BERLIN -- First the boss went, then 1,000 members resigned from rail union Transnet after their Chairman Hansen moved to the Board of Deutsche Bahn.
"Transnet is facing the rubble of the Hansen system", say critics. Photo: AP
RMT Circular No: IR/182/08: July 31, 2008
Dear colleague,
Further to my previous circular (Ref: IR/147/08) dated 29th May 2008 on the above matter, I received a number of responses which highlighted that the issue of management attempting to have only two-person teams is of widespread concern.
Continue reading "Staffing Levels - S&T Staff, Network Rail Maintenance" »
Shields Gazette: 01 August 2008
THE Tyne and Wear Metro system could grind to a halt if Nexus doesn't agree to a string of union demands, it was warned today.
Warning ... Stan Herschel.
Continue reading "Unions threaten rail strike over 'privatisation' row" »
Business Daily Africa: 1 August 2008
Written by Zeddy Sambu
NAIROBI -- Implementation of a regional plan to upgrade East Africa’s railway network has began with the formation of a committee to spearhead the project.
Upgrade of the regional rail network has moved a step higher with the formation of a team to spearhead the project.
Continue reading "Team formed to spearhead Kenya-Uganda railway upgrade project " »
The Birmingham Post: Jul 30 2008
Britain’s railways are suddenly poised on the verge of an exciting new era of development. Terry Grimley looks at the national issues and the way they could impact on the West Midlands.
Continue reading "The rail debate: Birmingham New Street and its future" »
The Guardian: August 1 2008
Dan Milmo
The chief executive of National Express has urged the rail industry to target domestic airlines after warning that train operators needed to promote themselves better.
Continue reading "Compete more with domestic airlines, rail industry told" »
The Guardian: August 1 2008
Dan Milmo
Keith Ludeman was once considered too outspoken, but the frank talker now runs Britain's busiest train company
Keith Ludeman, Group Chief Executive of the Go-Ahead group, on a train at the Gatwick Express platform of Victoria Station in London. Photograph: Lynda Nylind
Continue reading "The Go-Ahead boss driving public transport" »
ÖBB: 30.07.2008
The Supervisory Board of Austrian State Railways (ÖBB) have opened the way for a new joint venture with Deutsche Bahn called 'Rail Select'.
Continue reading "Austria gives green light for joint venture with Deutsche Bahn" »
Sunderland Echo: 29 July 2008
RAIL operator Grand Central has been ordered to improve its safety management systems by industry regulators.
Continue reading "Grand Central told to improve safety systems" »
RMT: July 27 2008
AROUND 100 RMT Tube station staff at Elephant and Castle, Charing Cross and Lambeth North and are to strike for 24 hours from 19:00 tonight to demand the re-instatement of a colleague dismissed after defending himself against a violent assault on New Year’s Eve.
AFP: 27 July 2008
AMMAN — Jordan is seeking six billion dollars from international donors to build a railway link with its neighbours and plans to import Iraqi crude oil by rail, the transport ministry said on Sunday.
Continue reading "Jordan plans regional railway, oil link with Iraq" »
Sunday Times: July 27, 2008
Dominic O'Connell
Network Rail’s corporate governance will come under scrutiny again this week with the publication of a report by the consultancy KPMG.
Continue reading "Network Rail braced for governance inquiry" »
