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UK News - July 2007
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Date Added News Headline
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
30 Jul 2007 'One' Community scheme sees Newmarket 'adopted'
30 Jul 2007 First Great Western 'twin' with Dartington International Summer School
30 Jul 2007 Scottish steam loco returns to the UK from South Africa
28 Jul 2007 Out with Waterloo and in with St Pancras for Eurostar
27 Jul 2007 RSSB report released into a possession irregularity near Manor Park
27 Jul 2007 Borough Market works to be finished in time for Olympic Games in 2012
27 Jul 2007 Engineering Support Group to launch services in France
27 Jul 2007 More water trains for flood victims
26 Jul 2007 Wagons recovered from Ely derailment site
26 Jul 2007 Department for Transport delivers more freight grants
26 Jul 2007 Intermodal boxes get new London rail route
25 Jul 2007 Wherry Lines get own Class 156
25 Jul 2007 Class 67 powered extra trains for Dawlish Carnival Air Show on 16 August
25 Jul 2007 First GBRf commences new contract with EDF Energy
25 Jul 2007 Virgin Trains 'family carriages' to be introduced
24 Jul 2007 Network Rail welcome new rail strategy
24 Jul 2007 Government White Paper on rail transport published
24 Jul 2007 Quality reading on FGW sleeper services
23 Jul 2007 Cotswold Line flooding
23 Jul 2007 DLR Woolwich tunnels completed
20 Jul 2007 GNER unveil new look 'waiting pods'
20 Jul 2007 EWS help out the Severn Valley Railway to repair flood damage
19 Jul 2007 More parking for rail passengers at Kemble
19 Jul 2007 Network West Midlands tickets will continue availability on New Cross Country
18 Jul 2007 Report released into derailment of a freight train at Maltby North
18 Jul 2007 Lymington branch line temporary closure 30 Sept - 18 Nov 2007
18 Jul 2007 Glasgow Queen Street transformed into 2014 Commonwealth Station
18 Jul 2007 Metronet Rail BCV & SSL go into PPP administration
18 Jul 2007 Eurostar publishes HS1 timetable for St Pancras opening
17 Jul 2007 EWS Construction invests in 34 new wagons
17 Jul 2007 Extra trains for Lowestoft Airshow
16 Jul 2007 Fastline Freight to move into coal market and buy Class 66s
16 Jul 2007 Metronet faces administration
16 Jul 2007 Timetabled service linking Minehead and Bristol starts this week
16 Jul 2007 First GBRf orders a new fleet of coal wagons
16 Jul 2007 Network Rail CEO John Armitt honoured with powercar naming
13 Jul 2007 Ministers set out blueprint for Scotland's Railways
13 Jul 2007 GNER launch driving simulator
13 Jul 2007 Report released into fatal accident involving a shunter at Dagenham Dock
12 Jul 2007 Brunel lives on in Truro
11 Jul 2007 Royal Eurostar
11 Jul 2007 Interesting use for new DRS 66s in Canada
11 Jul 2007 Nomad information comes to Marylebone and the Chiltern route
11 Jul 2007 For Fambridge read North Fambridge
10 Jul 2007 Local resident officially opens new shelter at Littleport station
10 Jul 2007 New CrossCountry franchise goes to Arriva
9 Jul 2007 £5000 reward offered by Network Rail following cable theft in Leeds
9 Jul 2007 Tube Lines to refurbish Woodside Park station
9 Jul 2007 Summer blooms at 25 'one' stations
6 Jul 2007 Class 444 No. 444012 named Destination Weymouth
6 Jul 2007 New travel centre for Hull Paragon
5 Jul 2007 FGW confirm loco hauled reliefs to Weymouth this summer
5 Jul 2007 Derailment on London Underground Central Line
5 Jul 2007 MTRLaing appoints senior team for London Rail Concession
4 Jul 2007 First Class 395 departs from Japan for South Eastern Trains
4 Jul 2007 36 extra vehicles ordered by TfL for London Overground Class 378s
3 Jul 2007 Bombardier starts construction of first sub-surface train for Metronet Rail
3 Jul 2007 DRS Mk3 charter rake ready for weekend
3 Jul 2007 The Port of Felixstowe names Class 08
3 Jul 2007 Alstom to maintain Class 325 Royal Mail trains for FirstGBRf
3 Jul 2007 First Scotrail starts Class 158 refurbishment
2 Jul 2007 New European Rail partnership formed with the launch of ‘Railteam’
2 Jul 2007 Peoples views sought on new look bus and rail interchange for Marston Green
2 Jul 2007 GrantRail partnership wins second Docklands Light Railway Project
1 Jul 2007 Thomas Telford honoured at Paisley Canal Station
   
29 Jun 2007 Bittern Line gets its own Class 156
29 Jun 2007 New £5.5m platform for Newport
28 Jun 2007 Deutsche Bahn (DB) take over of EWS and Transfesa confirmed
28 Jun 2007 East Coast Main Line 'Route Utilisation Strategy'
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