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UK News - August 2007
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Date Added News Headline
30 Aug 2007 RAIB report released into an open passenger door on a moving train near Desborough
30 Aug 2007 Cut price parking at Peterborough - at weekends
30 Aug 2007 Happy 20th Birthday - Docklands
29 Aug 2007 £45m Coventry resignalling completed
29 Aug 2007 Spruce up for Island Line stations
28 Aug 2007 Pacer Class 142s to return to FGW West of England services
24 Aug 2007 East Midlands Trains Managing Director announced
24 Aug 2007 Historic steam loco returns to Scotland from South Africa
23 Aug 2007 First Hitachi Class 395 arrives in the UK
22 Aug 2007 RAIB publish report into a collision at Badminton
22 Aug 2007 Airdrie-Bathgate survey work starts
21 Aug 2007 Arriva opens new £3m train care facility at Machynlleth
20 Aug 2007 Seven DRS Class 66s start move to the UK from EMD
20 Aug 2007 Chris Gibb appointed new MD of Virgin West Coast
20 Aug 2007 Major improvements for Ealing Broadway station
18 Aug 2007 First Great Western 'Quality'
17 Aug 2007 Lime Street Station ready for 800th birthday celebrations in Liverpool
17 Aug 2007 Porterbrook order 37 4-car Class 350s for London Midland
16 Aug 2007 Department for Transport announces shortlist for Intercity express programme
15 Aug 2007 First ScotRail provide facilities at Fort William
14 Aug 2007 National Express Group win Inter City East Coast franchise
14 Aug 2007 Chiltern Railway’s first time saving machine becomes part of history
14 Aug 2007 National Rail Enquiries to launch Live Departure Board for Windows Vista Users
14 Aug 2007 Northern Rail offers up to £1000 to catch vandals
14 Aug 2007 Improvements at Harlow Town
13 Aug 2007 East Midland Trains unveiled
13 Aug 2007 Locking gates erected at Elsenham
10 Aug 2007 FGW withdraw loco hauled Weymouth service and extra trains to Dawlish Carnival
10 Aug 2007 Huntingdon station benefits from £1.3m improvement programme
10 Aug 2007 Niall Quinn Sunderland AFC Chairman name 66725 ‘Sunderland’
9 Aug 2007 Less noise in Shenfield
9 Aug 2007 Portsmouth engineering work update
9 Aug 2007 Huge success for additional Leeds-Kings Cross services
8 Aug 2007 RAIB report released into signal passed at danger at Purley station
8 Aug 2007 'Bubble' specials to Quainton Road on August Bank Holiday Monday
8 Aug 2007 Half-price train tickets for flood hit North Cotswolds customers
7 Aug 2007 First Official ‘Poet On The Platform’ for First Great Western
7 Aug 2007 New underpass for York
7 Aug 2007 Special commendation for First TransPennine Express
6 Aug 2007 St Pinnock Viaduct Refurbishment October 2007 will see loco-hauled in Cornwall
6 Aug 2007 Chiltern Railways mobile phone ticketing - doubled across network
6 Aug 2007 GNER launches new leaner and greener menus
6 Aug 2007 More than 110,000 passengers book travel on new Eurostar service
6 Aug 2007 National safety award for Eridge, Crowborough and Uckfield
6 Aug 2007 RAF VC10 'dips its wings' to a Pendolino
3 Aug 2007 RAIB investigate an incident between a passenger and freight train at Willington on 1 August 2007
3 Aug 2007 Oxford - Worcester re-opens after flooding
3 Aug 2007 Planning application submitted for new train station in Corby
2 Aug 2007 First Capital Connect launches travelcheck service
1 Aug 2007 Five more 66s and 110 extra wagons for Freightliner
1 Aug 2007 CBRail establishes new business platform
   
31 Jul 2007 Four more stations awarded “Secure Station” status
31 Jul 2007 Docklands Light Railway to increase capacity by 50 per cent with three-car trains
31 Jul 2007 Southampton keeps on delivering six days a week
  For older items see UK news Archive July 2007

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