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Thursday, 01 March 2012

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  • Extra trains and faster journey times will boost capacityPassengers are on track to benefit from faster, longer trains and over 12,000 extra seats each day on journeys into London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Rail Minister Theresa Villiers announced today.

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  • BA fares to rise despite take-off in IAG profitsBRITISH AIRWAYS owner IAG yesterday reported a five-fold increase in annual profits but warned of further fare rises and lower six months profits because of soaring fuel costs and eurozone woes.
  • National Express in record gainsBUS and train operator National Express hailed a dramatic turnaround in its business yesterday as car drivers switched to public transport and helped it to post record profits.

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  • Tickets scheme leads to rise in bus passengersBUS passenger levels have grown strongly on routes in Sheffield with shared ticketing and service arrangements between operators against an overall decline across South Yorkshire which officials believe is down to the poor state of the economy.

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  • Network Rail looks at alternative rail solutionsNetwork Rail has said it is looking at alternative rail solutions as ‘part of its continued efforts to deliver a better value-for-money railway’. Tram and train, community rail initiatives and more innovative ways of replacing diesel traction with electrically-powered trains will all be studied in more detail as part of the companys alternative solutions route [...]
  • Talking about TrainsWith its world famous collection, Yorks National Railway Museum (NRM) is truly a Mecca for railways enthusiasts. Impressive though its locomotives are, the museums small exhibits can be equally worthy of the visitors interest. This is certainly true of the eight cases forming the NRMs Talking about Trains exhibition celebrating the birth of the Institution [...]
  • Blue Train wins againThe Blue Train in South Africa has been named the best luxury train in the world. The train runs 1,000 miles between Cape Town and Pretoria. The train which started operations in 1923 boasts butler service and en-suite compartments with full sized baths. The Blue Train won the Luxury Train award for the third consecutive [...]
  • Infrarail comes togetherThe number of companies planning to take part in this years Infrarail exhibition of rail infrastructure products and services stood at more than 160 by mid-February, with plenty of new products expected to be on display and innovation promising to be a key feature of the event. The NEC in Birmingham is again the venue [...]
  • Collaboration is key to meeting rail challenges says ORROffice of Rail Regulation (ORR) Chief Executive Richard Price has said that the UK’s rail industry’must work together to meet the big challenges ahead’. Speaking at the Waterfront Rail Industry Reform Conference in London yesterday, Richard Price praised recent moves to bring the railways closer to local communities through Network Rails devolution, as well as [...]
  • Rail improvements underway at ElyThe cross-country Felixstowe to Nuneaton rail route is set for further improvements as Network Rail begins work on building two 775m loops parallel to existing track east of Ely station. The work will enable better regulation of trains through the junctions at Ely and should be complete by summer 2013. The Ely loops form an [...]
  • London Midland & FTPE order new trains from SiemensLondon Midland and First TransPennine Express have placed orders with Siemens for new Desiro electrical multiple units. The new trains will delivered between the end of 2013 and the middle of 2014. Ten class 350/3 electrical multiple units will be used by London Midland to strengthen existing commuter services into London and along the West [...]

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