Articles by RAIL magazine - Page 34

Infrastructure investment company I Squared has bought Arriva Group from German state-owned Deutsche Bahn.

Tom Edwards recalls the day in December that the Great Western hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, and asks how its failings can be rectified.

Hitachi Rail has completed its acquisition of Thales' Ground Transportation Systems (GTS) business after a long-drawn-out process of securing regulatory approvals in multiple countries.

Four more Merseyrail stations will have new lifts installed to provide step-free access from the street to the train.

Former Virgin West Coast manager Chris Gibb is putting forward a radical alternative to the cancelled HS2 route between Birmingham and Manchester, writes Peter Plisner

The economic prospects of Birmingham and Manchester are being seriously damaged because of the Government’s failure to come up with any plans to improve the West Coast Main Line, to replace the cancelled northern leg of HS2, writes Howard Johnston.

THE RMT union has claimed a “significant win” after ScotRail agreed to continue driver-and-guard operation on its £63 million newly electrified line to Barrhead, and its £140m East Kilbride electrification project, on which work started earlier this year.

A new museum at Great Malvern railway station recalls the work of the technology experts in Malvern who contributed to Britain’s role in winning the Second World War.

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) says the Government needs to flesh out its railway proposals in northern England and the Midlands.

Travel writer and broadcaster Christian Wolmar says what emerges in government may look different to the plan the party set out while in opposition.