www.rail.co Headlines 1st February 2012

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• Edinburgh's Waverley Steps reopen  Edinburgh Waverley station’s Waverley Steps have reopened to the public after refurbishment. Their reopening marked the end of the first phase of the project to refurbish the station’s Princes Street entrance. The steps have been rebuilt and had escalators installed, with a steel and glass canopy also being built. The refurbishment is part of the [...]
• Construction of Paddington Crossrail station ˜steps up"      The new Paddington Crossrail station is to take a step further towards construction as the excavation of the station box gets underway in February. The new station will be built under Eastbourne Terrace and Departures Road. Westminster City Council has agreed to a full closure of Eastbourne Terrace from 12 February 2012 until early 2014 to [...]
• RMT rejects ˜unacceptable" Olympics Tube pay offer          The RMT has rejected the latest Olympics pay offer from London Underground. The union said it would ‘step up the pressure for a fair deal for all staff across the grades’ because of the ‘additional workload and pressure’ they will be under during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The RMT said the money offered was [...]
• Network Rail to plead guilty over Elsenham level crossing deaths             A court has heard that Network Rail is to plead guilty to health and safety offences over the deaths of two girls at a level crossing. The Office of Rail Regulation’s prosecution of Network Rail is for breaches of health and safety law which led to the deaths of Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson, at [...]
• Spanish rail operator Renfe to sell train tickets globally via SilverRail              Renfe, the largest rail operator in Spain, has partnered with SilverRail Technologies to make tickets on their entire network available to online travel agents (OTAs), travel management companies and traditional travel agents around the world. SilverRail will make Spanish rail connections available on its global multi-country ticketing platform SilverCore later this year. This will include [...]
• Thales & Balfour Beatty win £335m Danish rail signalling contract           A consortium of Thales and Balfour Beatty Rail has been awarded a contract by Danish rail operator Banedanmark to update much of the country’s rail signalling system. The two companies will ‘form a collaborative and integrated team’ to re-signal around 60% of Denmark’s network. Following the European Union rail network directive, which requires operators to [...]
• Record passenger numbers at East Midlands Parkway           According to train operator East Midlands Trains, East Midlands Parkway station has seen a record number of passengers using the station in the last year. The station was opened in 2009 and has seen 450,000 journeys made in the three years since it opened. East Midlands Parkway provides links to cities including London, Derby, Leicester, [...]