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Shares in Scottish transport giant FirstGroup have risen four per cent after the company said its rail and bus operations performed better than expected in the first half despite the challenges posed by the surge in inflation.
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An intercity train named in honour of King Charles has been unveiled at Paddington station.
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Great Western Railway has agreed contracts to buy Vivarail's battery train related assets, saying this will secure the future of planned trials of the technology in London.
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An ambitious project to create a direct link connecting Falmouth and Newquay has been awarded almost £50 million of funding. The Mid Cornwall Metro scheme is the only successful bid out of four to be submitted by Cornwall Council for Levelling Up funding from the government. It has received £49.95m to develop a scheme with Great Western Railway and Network Rail.
(Permalink) Cornwall Cornwall Council Falmouth Great Western Railway Mid Cornwall Metro Network Rail Newquay  Falmouth Docks: FGW 150246 sits at the buffers at Falmouth Docks as it waits to head north to Truro on 14 October 2015.  Newquay: Bring me sunshine - exceptional weather for the time of year, but at Newquay, not Morecambe. The single car diesel unit, no. 153318, will soon travel back to Par on 29 November. The palm trees on the ...  Par: The Newquay train emerges from the stabling siding into Platform 3 at Par. 150248 is just passing the signalbox and lower quadrant semaphores. Trains from this platform can either turn right towards S ... |
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FirstGroup, the Scottish transport heavyweight, said it was delivering a resilient performance in the face of a challenging political, economic and industrial relations environment.
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Hitachi Rail is installing its cutting-edge live monitoring solution across Great Western Railway's high-speed fleet of 93 intercity trains, in a world-first for digital maintenance. This technology will boost fleet availability by over 100 days per year. Wireless sensors are being attached to live monitor the entire wheelsets and bogies, allowing real-time data of gearboxes, traction motors, bearings and wheels.
(Permalink) Bearings Bogies Gearboxes Great Western Railway Hitachi Rail Perpetuum Onboard Remote sensing Traction Motors Wheelsets Wireless sensors  North Pole Depot: Wireless sensors are being attached to live monitor the entire wheelsets and bogies, allowing real-time data of gearboxes, traction motors, bearings and wheels. This will deliver significant benefits ... |
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Thousands of rail passengers impacted by an IT error will be reimbursed for the inconvenience they experienced when attempting to claim compensation for a delayed journey. FirstGroup, which runs Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and TransPennine Express and open-access operators Hull Trains and Lumo, self-reported the issue to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) after a recent audit identified the issue. When a passenger submits a Delay Repay claim to the wrong train company, the claim should be redirected to the appropriate train company for processing.
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Network Rail has launched a new pilot project that integrates its traffic management system with Great Western Railway's crew and stock resource management system a first in the UK rail industry.
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Hitachi Rail and Eversholt Rail are in the advanced stages of designing and engineering an electric-diesel-battery (tri-mode) train, with plans to trial on a Great Western Railway (GWR) Class 802 train in 2022.
With proof of concept and layout in the final stages of approval, work has begun to build the battery for functional testing and integration onto the train. The battery, which will be 6m x 2.2m in size, will replace one of the diesel engines on a five car GWR Class 802 train. (Permalink) Class 802 Eversholt Rail Great Western Railway Hitachi Rail |
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Passengers onboard a London-bound service repeatedly activated emergency alarms after the train failed to stop at Swindon unexpectedly forcing the driver to reverse and head back.
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Swathes of poppy wreaths will be placed on Great Western Railway trains and carried to London Paddington station on Remembrance Day.
The special Poppies to Paddington operation will involve nine train services and more than 60 stations covering the length and breadth of the Great Western network. (Permalink) Great Western Railway |
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GWR imposed the ban after its new trains were redesigned to allow for more seating.
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More than 10,000 extra seats will be available to Great Western Railway passengers on January 2, compared with the same number last year.
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Thirty-two of 36 five-car Class 800s in traffic with GWR.
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The first Great Western Railway High Speed Train will go off-lease on August 31, Angel Trains has confirmed to RAIL.
Power cars 43021 David Austin - Cartoonist and 43132 We Save the Children - Will you? will leave GWR, along with Trailer First (TF) 41032, Trailer Standards (TS) 42045-047, 42207 and 42561. Owned by Angel Trains, these are the first HST vehicles to be withdrawn by GWR, and they are destined for ScotRail. The coaches will be moved to Wabtec Rails Doncaster facility for modifications, overhaul and refurbishment which includes fitting plug doors to the coaches to enable them to be in operation beyond January 1 2020. ScotRail will introduce HSTs on routes serving its seven cities from next year. All will be leased from Angel, with 54 power cars to be refurbished by Wabtec at its Brush Traction Loughborough site, and 121 Mk 3s to pass through Doncaster. The project will be completed in May 2019, with 17 five-coach and nine four-coach sets entering traffic. (Permalink) GWR Great Western Railway High Speed Train  Swansea: 43018 and 43015 are rear power cars on the 07.58 and 07.28 First Great Western HST services to London Paddington seen stabled at Swansea platforms 3 and 4 on 16 July. 43015 is in the process of being ...  Penzance: With a few hundred yards to go, a First Great Western HST approaches the end of its journey, Penzance station, on 22 April 2012, having travelled all the way (ecs) from the carraige sidings at Long Ro ...  Old Oak Common: View west over the yards at Old Oak Common in July 2005 from the wall along the south side of the Grand Union Canal. A First Great Western HST is about to leave the carriage sidings on an empty stock ... |
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Test trains for the new fleet of Intercity Express Trains on the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the South West have left Japan, heading for the UK.
The new train is for use on the line linking Paddington to Exeter and Cornwall via Reading and Newbury. It is part of what GWR describes as the 'biggest fleet upgrade in a generation', aimed at reducing journey times and increasing capacity. The Class 802 fleet is due to enter passenger service next summer. (Permalink) Class 802 GWR Great Western Railway Hitachi |
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Hitachi Rail Europe announced on February 15 that production has begun at Hitachi Rail Italys Pistoia plant on the first of 36 class 802 inter-city trains for Great Western Railway (GWR).
In 2015 GWR placed a £361m order through leasing company Eversholt Rail for 22 five-car and seven nine-car trains. An option for seven additional nine-car sets was subsequently exercised in August 2016. The trains will be introduced on services from London Paddington to Exeter, Plymouth and Penzance from December 2018. (Permalink) Class 802 Eversholt Rail GWR Great Western Railway Hitachi |
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Part of a £2.8bn project to electrify the Great Western route has been 'deferred'.
The plan was to fully electrify the route from Cardiff to London by 2018 and the scheme had already been delayed. It was estimated to cost £874m in 2013, but spending spiralled out of control, causing some MPs to call it 'staggering and unacceptable'. Lines affected include major routes to Bristol, Oxford, and Berkshire. (Permalink) Electrification Great Western Railway |
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