News - Page 320
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RAIL Features
Keeping the East Coast fit for purpose
ROB MCINTOSH is determined to keep a focus on maintenance and renewal of the infrastructure on the busy East Coast Main Line. PAUL STEPHEN reports
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Network
Carne acknowledges planning flaws in Great Western electrification
Planning of Great Western Route Modernisation would take longer if it were being done again - in order to spend less time on construction.
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Network
Testing begins, with Class 385s due in traffic next September
Commissioning of the Class 385s for passenger service begins in July, and they enter traffic in September.
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News
Great Western has similar problems encountered with a West Coast upgrade -DfT
Progress on the Great Western Route Modernisation has been similar in some respects to the West Coast Route Modernisation programme says DfT.
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Network
Southern strikes: Commuters “losing jobs”
MP claims employers are rejecting job applications from commuters who use Southern Railway
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Network
£47 million spent on deferred sections of Great Western modernisation
"Around £47 million” has been spent on works on the Great Western Main Line where electrification has been deferred.
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Network
Southern strikes continue
Southern Railway passengers face further strikes and disruption, following the failure of talks between the company and the drivers’ union ASLEF.
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RAIL Features
Ready for the ‘88’ revolution
On the arrival of new Class 88s, DAVID CLOUGH explores the evolution of the Stadler Valencia philosophy that led Beacon Rail to buy this game-changing design
