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tablet device. Both companies intend to offer 4G data services throughout the tunnel in the future.
Bath Spa named Best station Bath Spa won two awards in the prestigious International Station awards for Best medium-sized station and the top prize, Best station. The award recognises the success
of recent renovations at the station as part of wider works to improve Bath city centre while keeping the original Brunel-era features. The station, which sits in a World
Heritage Site, recently received a coveted Red Wheel plaque from the Transport Trust.
Toc is a winner four times over First TransPennine Express won four awards in the North of England Excellence awards 2013 - for sustainability, high growth, leadership and learning and development. Assessors were impressed by the
Toc’s commitment to sustainability projects, particularly the Green Grants Scheme, and its 85 per cent increase in passenger journeys over the past nine years compared to an industry average of 33 per cent. They also praised the company’s leadership charter, which ‘set a benchmark for others to follow’ and its personal development programme.
Go-Ahead wins for sustainability
The Go-Ahead Group won ‘Best communication of sustainability in the annual report’ at the Investor Relations Society Best Practice awards. Go-Ahead’s clear summary of its sustainability strategy and an honest discussion of how this impacts the business was commended, as was genuine integration of the strategy with the business review, and evidence that sustainability is embedded in the corporate culture and ‘owned’ by the board.
The UK rail market 2013 for latest news visit
www.railpro.co.uk
Those questions, plus how Great Britain will manage a 30 per cent growth in rail freight and deal with 400,000 more passengers by the end of the decade, are answered in the UK Rail Report 2013 from Brooks Market Intelligence Reports, part of Mack Brooks Exhibitions. The report also covers important industry topics such as:
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• the latest on Network Rail’s 2014-19 CP5 spending round and the company’s major projects
• a summary of the latest passenger franchise changes • an outline of current rolling stock orders • Crossrail and updates on Transport for London’s plans for the capital • briefings on light rail system developments around the country • HS2 high speed rail system
To learn more and to order the report visit
www.brooksreports.com Transport Minister to open Infrarail
inister of State for Transport Baroness Kramer will open Infrarail on Tuesday 20th May. After that, she will deliver a keynote address at the seminar theatre in the main exhibition hall. Exhibition manager, Heidi Cotsworth, said: ‘The current government places rail infrastructure investment at the heart of transport policy and it will be good to have the minister present at this key event.’ Focusing on the railway infrastructure market, Infrarail 2014 (20-22 May at Earl’s Court) will showcase the latest products, systems and services for constructing, operating and maintaining the fixed assets of main line and urban rail systems.
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By the end of 2013, more than 140 companies had confirmed their participation in the exhibition - stand space bookings are currently 25 per cent ahead of the same point prior to Infrarail 2012. Visit
www.infrarail.com
Network Rail achieves first official archive accreditation
Archive Service Accreditation is the new quality standard for archives services across the UK and achieving accredited status demonstrates that an archive service has achieved clearly defined national standards relating to management and resourcing; the care of its unique collections and what the service offers to its entire range of users. Network Rail’s archive looks after and catalogues legal documents, deeds, drawings and other information from the dawn of the railways that is still needed today. Vicky Stretch, NR’s archivist said: ‘Network Rail is a young company with a
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significant engineering and operational inheritance. There’s a huge value to the business of having a good archive. It’s the accumulation of knowledge from right across the business, and that means we have a record of what was done, why it was done and in what context decisions were made. ‘Being one of the first businesses in the country to achieve the standard is a real reward for the work we do, especially as our archive has only been around for five years - we’ve come a long way in a short amount of time.’
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etwork Rail has become one of just six organisations to receive accreditation from the National Archives for its corporate archive service, which manages more than five million records.
hat are the significant investments being made in rolling stock, Crossrail and Thameslink? What is the driving force behind the HS2 project?
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