Abellio UKs CEO Dominic Booth is understood to be leading buyout and will help fund deal using own money. The Dutch state railway is to pull out of the UK with a management buyout of its subsidiary Abellio, which runs four rail lines and a number of London bus routes. Abellio, which for 20 years has run East Midlands Railway, Greater Anglia, Merseyrail and West Midlands Railway and employs 15,000 staff, is to be sold by the Netherlands state-run Nederlandse Spoorwegen to its UK management. The business will be operated by a new firm, to be known as Transport UK Group Limited.
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The use of RFID tags to identify individual vehicles with wheel flats is being rolled out across East Midlands Railways fleet after a trial found it saved hours of staff time.
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Avanti West Coast and East Midlands Railway are among operators stepping up services.
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Train Managers and Senior Conductors to strike again on East Midlands Railway in separate disputes over safety, pay and conditions.
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RMT guards to bring negotiating table to East Midlands Railway as Sunday strikes continue and Train Managers vote for action.
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Railway untion RMT confirmed today that it has announced eight further strike dates over the summer on East Midlands Railway.
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The production and welding of a new fleet of Aurora trains have started for East Midlands Railways in Durham. The 33 trains are to be built by Hitachi Rail UK as part of a £110 million investment.

With the Aurora trains to enter service in 2023, there are presently over 40 newly qualified welders and painters working on them.
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