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UK News - January 2007
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Date Added News Headline
31 Jan 2007 'one' railway to extend availability of Oyster PAYG cards
31 Jan 2007 First Great Western to accept Oyster Card Pay As You Go from 2009
30 Jan 2007 Major EWS train fire disrupts East Coast Main Line UPDATED WITH PICTURE
30 Jan 2007 Three new accident reports published by RAIB
30 Jan 2007 GB Railfreight wins Porterbrook deal
29 Jan 2007 New footbridge for Lockerbie
29 Jan 2007 Upgrade for St Albans
29 Jan 2007 Changes to the industry’s accident investigation process
27 Jan 2007 Million pound upgrade for Holgate bridge, York
27 Jan 2007 Automatic ticket gates for Swindon
27 Jan 2007 Direct Rail Services Open Day 7 July 2007
27 Jan 2007 Massive overrun of Portsmouth re-signalling contract
26 Jan 2007 Mass GBRf/Metronet naming for five Class 66/7s at Euston
26 Jan 2007 New lounge for Exeter St Davids
25 Jan 2007 Virgin steps in to help out BA passengers caught by proposed strike action
25 Jan 2007 Phase 2 of Aberdeen station refurbishment gets underway
25 Jan 2007 Class 66 shipment departs from Canada
24 Jan 2007 Freightliner Heavy Haul takes delivery of tank wagons
24 Jan 2007 First Great Western issue 'statement' over service problems
23 Jan 2007 Report released into the derailment of a freight train at Cricklewood Curve on 31 January 2006
23 Jan 2007 Report released into derailment of a freight train at Brentingby Junction, near Melton Mowbray on 9 February 2006
23 Jan 2007 Schoolchildren unveil mural at Bush Hill Park station
23 Jan 2007 New ‘London Night Out’ ticket for Chiltern
22 Jan 2007 More HSTs for GNER as London-Leeds goes half-hourly
22 Jan 2007 FGW remembers cartoonist David Austin
20 Jan 2007 Electro Diesel No. 73133 arrives at Taunton
19 Jan 2007 Network Rail awards Ansaldo the contract for the first stage of ERTMS
19 Jan 2007 More power for Cotswold Rail
18 Jan 2007 First Group sponsor Paul Lawrie
18 Jan 2007 'one' announced additional cleaning to improve travel
18 Jan 2007 GNER tells pasengers book now for Easter
18 Jan 2007 GBRf wins Mendip Rail aggregate contract
18 Jan 2007 GB Railfreight wins Eurailscout contract
17 Jan 2007 Mixed reaction to First Great Westerns ‘new’ HST
16 Jan 2007 £1million upgrade for Bolton-on Dearne station
16 Jan 2007 Customers invited to join First Capital Connect online forum
16 Jan 2007 c2c to take Oyster tickets
15 Jan 2007 Hastings line disruption August 2007 - pre warning
15 Jan 2007 Stagecoach and Virgin partner to bid for East Coast rail franchise
14 Jan 2007 Class 442s bow out on SWT - or do they?
12 Jan 2007 FM locos go up for sale
12 Jan 2007 EWS locos for sale
11 Jan 2007 First run of First Great Western refurbished HST
11 Jan 2007 New bridge for Attenborough
11 Jan 2007 Network Rail offer reward to catch and charge Kilmarnock fire raiser
11 Jan 2007 New screens for Waterloo
11 Jan 2007 Chiltern become first UK main rail operator to sell the complete TfL Oyster range
10 Jan 2007 GrantRail secures contract for Docklands Light Railwayextension to Stratford International Station
9 Jan 2007 First Great Western announce timetable changes to meet passenger demands
9 Jan 2007 1,000 track friendly suspension systems ordered from Axiom Rail
9 Jan 2007 Rail industry gets dedicated service provider with EWS Network
9 Jan 2007 RAIB release reports into low adhesion incidents in autumn 2005
9 Jan 2007 Portsmouth engineering work on schedule
9 Jan 2007 Freightliner HXA coal hoppers enter servive

9 Jan 2007

 Direct Eurostar services to Avignon go on sale from 10 January 2007
8 Jan 2007 Full First Group livery for new Class 66/7s unveiled As new freight contract announced
8 Jan 2007 More locos for Euro Cargo Rail
6 Jan 2007 End of the road for SWT 442s
5 Jan 2007 Virgin Trains celebrates 10th birthday as passenger operator
4 Jan 2007 Emergency training exercise for Hull Trains staff
3 Jan 2007 'PlusBus' arrives in Cambridge
3 Jan 2007 Burntisland road bridge set for £3 million rebuild
2 Jan 2007 Work starts to reinforce King Edward Bridge, Newcastle
2 Jan 2007 Repairs near completion at Kilmarnock
2 Jan 2007 New lifts for Epsom
   
29 Dec 2006 Service delivery improvements with extra staff for 'one' Railway in 2007
28 Dec 2006 'One' railway installs 552 vehicles with CCTV
  For older items see UK news Archive December 2006

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