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NEW ScotRail operator Abellio made a profit of £1 million a month after taking over the railway franchise last year.
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The leader of the Royal Borough has hit back at concerns over taxpayers’ money being used to fund legal action over the expansion of Heathrow.
NATIONAL RAIL AWARDS 2016: Maintenance Team Of The Year Winner: MTR Crossrail
“This is a spectacular performance achieved in a short time resulting in the London Rail TOC being one of the top performing TOCs despite operating over the GE infrastructure, the subject of continuous engineering work in preparation for Crossrail.”
NATIONAL RAIL AWARDS 2016: Safety Award, Joint Winner: Network Rail Wales - Rail Life
Trespass and vandalism have been a problem on the railways in Wales for a long time, causing delays and cancellations to passengers and costing a reported £583,000 in 2014. But there is also a human cost. In 2014, there were two trespass-related fatalities on the Wales route and there is is an average of 700 trespass crime events each year.
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- Clipper signs new 10 year contract with John Lewis PartnershipClipper Logistics plc has announced that it has signed a new 10 year contract with The John Lewis Partnership to provide a range of retail support services from a new distribution centre at Grange Park, Northampton. This news follows an initial announcement made in March last year. The new distribution centre, acquired by Clipper earlier this year specifically for John Lewis, will provide in excess of 500,000 square feet of capacity. Initial activity commenced in July 2016 and will support John Lewis' new distribution centre in Magna Park, Milton Keynes. The site will not only be...
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