Thameslink boost
- Published Wed 08 of Feb, 2006 13:49 GMT - (6103 Reads)Elaine Holt is the new managing director of First Capital Connect which takes over Thameslink on 1 April
What a waste
- Published Tue 07 of Feb, 2006 11:18 GMT - (3309 Reads)The Strategic Rail Authority agreed yesterday to pay £50million for hundreds of new trains to be stored in army depots for up to four years, because power supplies in southern England need to be upgraded to cope with them.
Lives at risk
- Published Sun 05 of Feb, 2006 12:11 GMT - (2768 Reads)The Strategic Rail Authority is being urged to change its mind and reinstate freight grants which encourage traffic to switch from road to rail.
Rail slowdown
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 18:17 GMT - (2767 Reads)Timetables were re-drawn on the Mid Wales rail network after Railtrack failed to upgrade the line from 75mph to 90mph.
Co-op travel
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 18:05 GMT - (2965 Reads)Co-op chief executive Pauline Green has called for the Government to turn Railtrack into a “com-munity-owned, multi-stakeholder co-operative business”.
Docklands goes east
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 15:29 GMT - (2756 Reads)Docklands Light Railway is planning a further extension to Dagenham Dock via Barking Reach at a cost of £150million.
New dawn
- Published Sun 29 of Jan, 2006 09:50 GMT - (2669 Reads)The first of Britain's new breed of tilting trains entered service on 27 January 2003.
Danger signal
- Published Thu 26 of Jan, 2006 11:27 GMT - (5783 Reads)Fast track
- Published Wed 18 of Jan, 2006 10:41 GMT - (2802 Reads)News that the Strategic Rail Authority is to consider a new high speed line between London, the North of England and Scotland is exciting.
Graduate opportunities
- Published Tue 17 of Jan, 2006 16:17 GMT - (3093 Reads)Building on its established graduate recruitment programme, Porterbrook Leasing is looking for applicants to join its 2003 programme.
Bushwhacked
- Published Mon 09 of Jan, 2006 20:59 GMT - (5771 Reads)Fares row
- Published Wed 04 of Jan, 2006 18:24 GMT - (6008 Reads)Assembly off track
- Published Tue 03 of Jan, 2006 17:47 GMT - (2649 Reads)Rail users in Wales are dismayed that the Welsh Assembly has dropped key rail schemes from its official Transport Framework.
£500m saving
- Published Thu 29 of Dec, 2005 20:27 GMT - (6376 Reads)Freight appeal
- Published Wed 28 of Dec, 2005 13:26 GMT - (6072 Reads)Christmas letdown
- Published Tue 27 of Dec, 2005 20:48 GMT - (5496 Reads)Rail re-vamp
- Published Wed 21 of Dec, 2005 18:34 GMT - (6152 Reads)Santa's present
- Published Tue 20 of Dec, 2005 17:36 GMT - (4843 Reads)Virgin first
- Published Mon 19 of Dec, 2005 19:57 GMT - (5169 Reads)Colin Patmore and Dennis Fancett of senrug with the Northumbrian piper welcoming the first Virgin weekday train to call at Morpeth station.