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| Demolition firm DSM to unveil plan for Nigg yard |
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A demolition company interested in taking over the former Nigg oil yard in Easter Ross will unveil its blueprint for the future of the site later. |
| BBC News Wed 28 Apr |
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| Step towards £295m rail contract |
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The process of appointing a contractor to build the £295m rail link between Edinburgh and the Borders will get under way by the end of the year. |
| BBC News Mon 2 Nov |
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| High speed railway decision due |
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Network Rail is due to announce its preferred route for a new high speed railway line linking London to the north of England and possibly Scotland. |
| BBC News Wed 26 Aug |
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| Fatal explosion on Italian train |
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At least 10 people were killed and 40 injured when a freight train carrying gas derailed and exploded in a northern Italian town |
| BBC News Tue 30 Jun |
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| Crossrail narrows funding gap with City pledge of up to £350m |
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The trans-London rail link Crossrail has secured £200m in funding from the City of London, closing one of the last gaps in the £16bn infrastructure project's costs. |
| Guardian Fri 5 Dec |
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| Crossrail given go ahead by Parliament |
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Final approval of the Crossrail link will see mainline trains travelling across London via underground tunnels. |
| NDTCabin Thu 24 Jul |
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| Major new rail lines considered |
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Five new high-speed main lines crossing the length and breadth of the UK may be built as part of a review of the rail network |
| BBC News Sun 22 Jun |
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| Crossrail gets the green signal |
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The £16bn Crossrail scheme to build a railway link through the centre of London has been given the go-ahead |
| BBC News Fri 5 Oct |
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| Fault with points missed days before fatal crash |
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Network Rail staff “falsified” maintenance records and ignored basic safety rules in the weeks before a train derailment that killed one passenger and injured 22. |
| Times Online Wed 5 Sep |
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| Overhaul of track inspections after crash |
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Network Rail will undergo an urgent overhaul of its track inspection regime after admitting that the catalogue of errors that caused the fatal west coast train crash could be repeated. |
| Guardian Wed 5 Sep |
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| Train crash points not inspected |
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The faulty points that caused a fatal crash in Cumbria should have been inspected five days earlier, a rail industry report has revealed. |
| BBC News Tue 4 Sep |
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| First outing for faster Eurostar |
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Eurostar is set to make its inaugural journey from Paris to London via a new 186mph (300km/h) high-speed line. |
| BBC News Tue 4 Sep |
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| Rail worker arrested over Cumbria crash |
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A track maintenance worker has been arrested by police investigating a derailment in which a high-speed cross-country train came off the rails killing an elderly woman passenger. |
| Timesonline Fri 13 Jul |
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| Workers' short-cut 'caused train crash' |
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Track workers may have deliberately dismantled the points which caused the rail crash in Cumbria last Friday. |
| Independent Wed 28 Feb |
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| Faulty points to blame for Cumbria rail crash |
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Rail chiefs declared themselves devastated yesterday by a report into the Cumbria rail crash which showed strong similarities to the Potters Bar disaster nearly five years ago. |
| Independent Tue 27 Feb |
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| Potters Bar lessons 'not learned' |
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The fatal train derailment in Cumbria proves lessons from the 2002 Potters Bar disaster have not been learned, it has been claimed. |
| BBC News Tue 27 Feb |
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| Crash sparks national rail checks |
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Up to 700 sets of points across the entire rail network are being checked following the Cumbria train crash. |
| BBC News Sun 25 Feb |
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| Safety Inspector crushed to death by steam crane |
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A safety inspector dies during the inspection of a railway steam crane in Cornwell on Friday. |
| NDTCabin Wed 30 Aug |
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| Corus to build rail welding facility at Scunthorpe |
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Corus is to build a new world-class rail welding facility at its Scunthorpe steelworks, which will be capable of producing rail up to 120m in length. |
| NDTCabin Tue 22 Aug |
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| Six killed in Spain train crash |
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Six people have been killed and at least 36 injured in a passenger train derailment in northern Spain. |
| BBC News Mon 21 Aug |
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