Rail News – Late April 2024
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Companies interested in delivering the infrastructure behind HS2’s elevated transport system – designed to boost the high-speed railway’s connectivity in the West Midlands – are being invited to take part in a new market engagement exercise.
Ahead of the formal procurement process, which is expected to launch in early 2026, HS2 is assessing the capacity of global suppliers to deliver the Automated People Mover (APM), which will carry passengers to and from the new high-speed station in Solihull.
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AECOM has announced that an AECOM-led joint venture with Jacobs has been selected by Amtrak to serve as delivery partner for the $6 billion Frederick Douglass Tunnel Program that will upgrade a ten-mile section of the Northeast Corridor (NEC), America’s busiest passenger rail line.
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Arjun Infrastructure Partners (Arjun) and University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP) have announced that they are investing in Angel Trains.
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British Steel has won a multi-million-pound contract to supply rail for a landmark new route in North Africa. In total, 9,500 tonnes of track, produced in Scunthorpe, will be delivered for Egypt’s Green Line railway – the country’s first fully electrified mainline and freight network which stretches from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
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Multi-million-pound investment for world famous Glenfinnan viaduct.
Network Rail will start a £3.4m investment to carry out repairs on the 123-year-old Glenfinnan viaduct this month. Along with principal contractor AmcoGiffen, engineers will assess the condition and strength of the viaduct, while carrying out work to protect it from water erosion, completing concrete repairs and making improvements beneath the track to keep the stone ballast in place.
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LPA Group illuminates the Underground with lighting systems for TfL projects.
LPA Group has announced the successful progression of key projects with Transport for London. This includes the newly refurbished Central Line of which the first train has now entered into passenger service, as well as being awarded the contract to supply interior lighting systems for the Piccadilly Line under the Deep Tube Upgrade Programme (“DTUP”).
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Development agreement signed to deliver £1.1 billion York Central regeneration.
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Network Rail appoints new Capital Delivery Director for Wales and Western region.
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has started a new intermodal service connecting Southampton to Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal in the West Midlands. This is the first time that GBRf has run an intermodal service from the UK’s second-largest deep-sea port to the West Midlands.
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“Intensive” talks between Alstom, the Government and Transport for London with a view to placing a train order which will secure the future of the firm’s historic train-making plant in Derby have been successful, according to reports.
Hopes were raised on April 16 that thousands of jobs at the factory and in the local supply chain could be saved after Transport Secretary Mark Harper said he had been locked in negotiations with Alstom Group CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge on the future of train manufacturing in the UK.
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