www.rail.co News Headlines. 28th January 2012

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• Invensys Rail wins major contract in Turkey                          Turkish State Railways has awarded Invesys Rail and its Turkish joint venture company Fermak, a €76m signalling contract. The contract consists of installing ERTMS signalling and communications systems on a 310km line stretching from Bandirma to Menemen. Invensys Rail will also install automatic train stop equipment, GSM-R voice and data communications and a Central Traffic [...]
• DfT issue invitation to tender for the West Coast rail franchise                    An invitation to tender for the West Coast franchise has been issued by the Department for Transport. Although the successful bidder will have to provide principal first and last trains, along with a minimum number of station stops per week, they will also be given, from December 2013, the freedom to vary timetables on individual [...]
• Major UK Rail companies sign up to the Network Rail Fair Payment Charter           The charter, which has been signed by the biggest construction and engineering companies in the rail industry, is aimed at increasing liquidity through the rail supply chain as Network rail spend £7bn on renewals over the next two years. Network Rail will reduce its own payment terms from 56 to 21 days and asks its [...]
• Tram extension for Nottingham               Nottingham's tram network is set to double in size with a similar boost to the tram fleet after funding was agreed. Work on the five mile extension to Clifton and the six mile route to Beeston starts soon. The new services should be running by 2014. Tramlink Nottingham has taken over the running of the [...]
• RMT secures Olympics pay deal for DLR                 The RMT said it has ‘secured a ground breaking’ pay deal for the Olympics on the Docklands Light Railway. The ‘deal’ is worth £2,500 per staff member and includes an attendance bonus of £900 and guaranteed overtime payments. RMT General Secretary Bob Crow said “This is a truly groundbreaking deal raising the bar in the [...]
• ˜Urgent action"needed to control rail cable theft                     A group of MPs have said anyone trying to sell scrap metal should have to prove their identity. The MPs want ‘urgent action’ to be taken on scrap dealers buying stolen metal in a bid to cut theft from the rail network. In a report, the Transport Select Committee said the government needed to test the [...]