Rail (UK) - 2022-06-29

• Summer of discontent
• Emergency timetables: just 20% of services set to run
• Strong attendance at record-breaking Rail Live
• THE FARE DEALER
• NR: better pay offer needs better productivi­ty
• Unions take action at Wabtec
• Safety fears over use of agency workers
• CASE STUDIES
• Kwarteng: workers “bribed” to strike
• DfT targets “simplifica­tion” with Great British Railways
• Stakeholde­rs call for a better understand­ing of expectatio­ns
• MTMS secures depot maintenanc­e deal with Hitachi
• Milestone for contactles­s cards
• Croydon tram crash: owner and operator both plead guilty
• Weather stations to monitor conditions
• Agreements set to deliver East Midlands rail freight expansion
• Rail freight: changing patterns
• Barking Riverside extension: timeline
• DB encourages staff to challenge activities they consider unsafe
• Near-miss at Hampshire level crossing
• Drop-in sessions for East West Rail
• … Digital ticketing key to new Great Western Railway National Rail Contract
• FirstGroup resumes divided payments after making “good progress”
• Gilbert to lead Hull Trains and Lumo
• GWR pays tribute to Falklands veterans
• Global leaders focus on post-pandemic railways
• Govia accelerate­s digital ticketing
• The next station is Pineapple Road
• New recruits at Siemens Mobility
• TransPenni­ne Express launches new green initiative­s
• London extends smartcard deals
• “Quite unbelievab­le”: Anglo-Saxon burial site in Buckingham­shire represents significan­t historical find
• Revisions to canal landscapin­g plans
• High-tech study of passenger needs
• Drilling process goes electric
• Le Mans sports cars an expensive cargo for Eurotunnel
• Reading’s “digital twin” to cut energy costs
• Reach Dartmouth on GWR tickets
• SVR wins award for excellence
• NRM travels into the future
• Trainline launches new Platform One
• Corker takes key role at Skanska
• Post-pandemic passenger numbers building back up
• Tactile paving on all T&W platforms
• Busiest stations offer ‘very good’ accessibil­ity
• Nine schemes receiving funding
• Premiere for Euro-6 diesel-electric shunter
• Merseyrail reduces services due to wheel bearing faults
• First pays out after Delay Repay error
• Curzon Street viaducts approved
• Regional News
• Patchway briefly on inter-city route
• Golf day raises £600 for CALM
• GN/GE welcomes gala-bound ‘50’ and ‘33’
• Rare sight of Class 43 carrying InterCity colours
• A variety of liveries at Bo’ness summer gala
• Jubilee gala remembers driver John
• Key transport personnel
• Strike settlement held back by ministers
• Birmingham-Bristol corridor services
• More ambiguity on restrictio­n codes on trains to/from the capital
• Well-connected at Abbey Wood station
• User-worked crossings
• P&O’s 90mph intermodal
• Rail Sale bargains… but where were the seats?
• Progress in the Valleys?
• Curzon Street proposals
• Deadlines for Bradshaw
• ‘373s’: a welcome return

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