News - Page 307
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Stagecoach renegotiates contract over projected VTEC losses
Stagecoach negotiating terms of East Coast franchise with DfT due to uncertainty over planned infrastructure upgrades on ECML
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Bombardier wins South Western Aventra contract
£895m deal designed to boost peak-time capacity
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Fleet
First GWR AT300 Class 802 arrives in UK from Japan
First brand new West of England Class 802 arrives in UK from Japan. Enters traffic next year.
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Study claims privatisation cost more than BR - but now outperforms it
Privatised passenger railway could have cost £51 billion more to operate than if British Rail had remained in state hands, a new study suggests.
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Underground Mail Rail opens to the public on July 28
Mail Rail is to open to the public on July 28 as part of the Postal Museum.
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Greater Anglia doubles reliability of ‘317s’
Class 317 reliability figures doubled by Greater Anglia over 15 months
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More Class 387s as GWR steps up electrics to Didcot
GWR's electric fleet will increase to 88 vehicles (22 trains) in early July.
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Rail a growth industry and UK’s “economic backbone”
RDG Chairman calls rail the “economic backbone” of the country, and that in uncertain times rail has the power to create secure jobs.
