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UK Launches Battery Electric Rail Era in Northern England
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1016+ words) The UK is accelerating a battery electric rail revolution across northern England, promising cleaner, faster journeys and renewed investment in regional manufacturing. The United Kingdom is moving ahead with a new generation of battery electric trains across northern England, positioning…...
New fleet of battery electric trains promises faster, more reliable UK travel
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More comfortable commutes ahead: rail reform spells end of the 'ironing-board' seat era on Thameslink trains
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (389+ words) Millions of Thameslink passengers are set to get a more comfortable commute as publicly owned operator GTR partners with Siemens Mobility to upgrade standard class seat cushions across all 115 trains in its fleet from next year. The new seat cushions…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 8976: An Integrated FMEA–HFACS–Bayesian Framework for Railway Risk Assessment: Specification, Survey-Informed Parameterisation and Demonstration
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (541+ words) Background: Integrating human factors into quantitative railway risk assessment remains methodologically unresolved. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) records human contributions as a single occurrence rating and cannot represent their organisational antecedents or their interactions. Purpose: This paper is a…...
Trains temporarily cancelled
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (24+ words) South Western Railway has decided to temporarily cancel Vasco da Gama-Kulem special trains for 26 days to facilitate track-doubling work, according to a release....
Prime Minister vows to get Croydon rail bottleneck scheme 'back on track"
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (681+ words) Andy Burnham has vowed to get the Croydon rail bottleneck plans "back on track" after it was hit by major delays due to the pandemic. The Prime Minister addressed the stalled plans, also known as the Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme…...
GWR quietly cuts timetable due to unreliable train fleet
1+ week, 2+ day ago (204+ words) ‘Performance and punctuality hasn’t been good enough recently’ operator admits in email Great Western Railway is cutting its timetable in order to reduce cancellations caused by the unreliability of its fleet of trains. The operator, which is being nationalised later…...
Batteries Included! Classic Merseyside train overpowers third rail limitation
1+ week, 5+ day ago (203+ words) Former Merseyrail EMU 507001 successfully ran under its own power, without a third rail, in tests at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane works in Derby, paving the way for future operation on a heritage railway. This feat was made possible by fitting batteries…...
RAIL EXCLUSIVE: DFTO Chief Executive Alex Hynes talks to Paul Clifton
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1775+ words) ALEX HYNES, DFTO chief executive, is responsible for 11,000 passenger services every day, and 37,000 employees. This is his only interview since taking the job nine months ago. He speaks to PAUL CLIFTON “It’s a tightrope we are walking most days,” says…...