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Tram-trains which run on street tracks and railway lines are to be piloted in South Yorkshire in a scheme worth £58m, the government has confirmed.

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  • Heathrow access 'critical for us' A business lobby group has called for better access for Northern Ireland at Heathrow. Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/business-news/heathrow-access-critical-for-us-16159906.html#ixzz1vCTL9Jze

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  • Madonna to solve city tram chaosTHEY have caused chaos and forced shops to close, but now the answer to tram trouble in the West End has been revealed – a Madonna “flashmob”.

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  • Newcastle Airport court case drawing to a closeA TOP law firm accused of negligence over multi-million pound bonuses awarded to two former Newcastle Airport directors acted diligently and “in good faith” throughout, London’s High Court heard yesterday.

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  • £60m tram-train pilot approved Tram-trains which run on street tracks and railway lines are to be piloted in South Yorkshire in a scheme worth nearly £60 million, the Government has confirmed.

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  • Warhorse of the rails heads for York A First World War armoured locomotive used to haul supplies to the front line will be one of the star attractions when Britain™s biggest railway exhibition kicks off in York next month.

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  • Victory in fight to cut speed limitA ROAD safety campaigner has welcomed a cut in the speed limit on one of Fylde’s most dangerous roads – but some say the move has come after too many lives have been lost.

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  • Diamond Jubilee trains on London UndergroundThis week the first of two Jubilee line trains, wrapped in decorative Jubilee livery to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, has gone into service. The trains will run along the Jubilee line up to and during the Diamond Jubilee weekend, Transport for London said. TfL has also produced 250,000 of the limited edition Oyster [...]
  • Changeover at Chester-le-StreetAlex Nelson™s eureka moment came to him when he was on the Durham to Newcastle train, stopping at the then defunct Chester-le-Street station. He recalls that moment in November 1998. ˜The station was all boarded up and derelict and unloved and had this ˜To Let™ sign up.™ He and his partner Steve Robson were running [...]
  • Transport crime Command Centre opens in West MidlandsSecretary of State for Transport Justine Greening recently launched a pioneering £1.2m Command Centre dedicated to tackling crime and anti-social behaviour on the West Midlands transport network. The Safer Travel Command Centre in Birmingham is the first in the UK to have officers from a regional police force and British Transport Police permanently based together. [...]
  • The Royal TrainContinuing a tradition which dates back to 1842, the Royal Train remains one of the preferred modes of transport for the Royal Family much loved by Her Majesty the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales. The present Royal Train consists of a fleet of nine coaches, seven of which are BR [...]
  • Devolution in the regionsDEVOLUTION. It™s one of the latest buzz-words in railways, but what does it mean? Last month, RailStaff talked with Network Rail and the train operator organisation ATOC to find out what Devolution means to them at headquarters level. This month, the focus turns to what is happening in the regions. A typical route is the [...]
  • Clan Line returnsA steam locomotive that was stopped from running on to the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset 46 years ago because it was judged to be too heavy has finally made it. The 150-ton Southern Railway Merchant Navy class Bulleid Pacific No. 35028 ˜Clan Line™ ran through to Swanage hauling a UK Railtours Special, the Royal [...]
  • Improving the railway is crucial to growthDespite the continuing recession and the euro-crisis abroad, the Coalition Government is standing firm behind the rail industry, says Theresa Villiers. ˜The Government is pressing ahead despite the deficit because we believe that improving our railway is a crucial way to boost growth and strengthen our competitiveness.™ The Minister of State for Transport was speaking [...]
  • ˜Vital investment™ results in ˜record year™ for TubeThe Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has said that the Tube reached ‘record levels of performance and improved reliability over the last twelve months’. He attributed the improvements to a reliability programme introduced last year and a ‘massive programme of investment’. The Mayor also said that his team are ‘working on measures to cut delays [...]
  • Tram Trains pilot given go ahead in South YorkshireTransport Minister Norman Baker today gave the green light to a £58 million Tram Train pilot scheme in South Yorkshire. New vehicles will operate from 2015 on Sheffield™s Supertram network and on part of the national rail network, which will be adapted to ‘allow seamless travel from one to the other’. Announcing the pilot, Norman [...]
  • New business for Network RailNetwork Rail has launched a new business aimed at getting better value for money on infrastructure projects. The new commercially focussed, regionally based, projects delivery business – Network Rail Infrastructure Projects – has four regional directors and three programme directors responsible for delivery of major renewal and enhancement infrastructure in their area. Regional directors include: [...]
  • Spring Holiday progressNetwork Rail and its contractors successfully completed a busy Easter period of engineering works across the whole country, including Olympic critical sites. Engineers and rail staff worked on 260 projects around the clock progressing £40m of planned works at over 1,000 worksites. Maintenance teams were out in force working at an additional 2,000 worksites. Highlights [...]
  • Jacking up PendolinosThe introduction of Virgin™s new 11-car Pendolino trains into service on Thursday 5 April has given some much-needed extra capacity on the West Coast Main Line. However, it also presented a few problems to the maintenance team at the Alstom Transport Traincare Centre in Longsight near Manchester. They needed to be able to lift a [...]

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  • DfT gives green light to tram trains Tram trains will be running in Britain in 2015, as the result of a decision by the Department for Transport to invest £58 million in a trial scheme in South Yorkshire. Transport minister Norman Baker has given the green light to a project which will link the present Sheffield tram network and Rotherham via a new 400m connection near Meadowhall.
  • New appeal for peace in pensions dispute East Midlands Trains has promised to protect pension benefits for employees and called on drivers' union Aslef to work with the company to resolve the dispute, as passengers faced the last of six days of industrial action affecting the EMT network.

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  • Arriva helps women on their career journey Bus and rail group joins ’An Inspirational Journey’, an initiative to help increase the number of women at senior levels of UK business and industry
  • Mayor and Transport for London seek consultants to join new architecture, design and urbanism procurement panel 16 May, 2012 Architects and design professionals are invited to apply for membership of a new consultants™ procurement panel which is being set up by the Mayor of London and Transport for London (TfL) to promote quality architecture, public realm, urban regeneration and sustainable development in the capital. The Architecture, Design and Urbanism Panel will be a joint GLA and TfL panel also open to use by the London boroughs, housing associations and other public sector organisations involved with the built env...

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  • Nottingham unveils tram designs Fleet of 22 new Alstom Citadis trams will operate on city’s expanded network from 2014
  • PlusBus reaches 10th birthday Combined bus and rail ticket seeing growing sales Transport minister Norman Baker visited Oxford this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the PlusBus integrated bus and rail ticketing scheme.
  • Skills council warns of ’an impending crisis’Passenger transport businesses are facing “an impending crisis” when it comes to finding staff with skills to meet increasing customer expectations and technology changes that are taking place within the sector, People 1st has warned.
  • New team to head up NX Bus Peter Coates, MD of National Express UK Bus, has implemented a new structure to deliver improvements in the business.

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