Near-miss at Llandovery level crossing, Carmarthenshire
Report name:
140515_R112014_Llandovery
Category: Heavy Rail
Summary: Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into a near-miss at Llandovery level crossing, Carmarthenshire, 6 June 2013.
RAIB has made six recommendations.
Alstom
Very High-Speed train AGV (Video)
Revolutionising very high-speed rail
The challenge
Transporting more passengers, faster, in greater comfort, and in better conditions of safety, while at the same time preserving the environment, is a major priority in the face of increasing road congestion and air pollution. The development of very high-speed cross-border trains is the ideal answer to these contemporary problems.
The Alstom Solution
The AGV is the first very high-speed train to be entirely designed for an international market (in full compliance with STI* standards) while fully taking into account environmental concerns.
Contine reading..and video...HERE
£350m Borders Railway nearly half complete.(The Scotsman)
Part-time train tickets must be introduced to help workers, says transport campaign group.(The Independent)
Great British Railway Journeys. Series 2: 3. Enfield to Cambridge .(BBC iPlayer)
On a journey from Brighton to Cromer, Michael Portillo visits the government arms factory at Enfield and discovers how the trains transformed Newmarket's races.
Celebrations to mark 175 years of the railways in Derby.(ITV News)
Rare pictures of steam locomotives - inside the modern day Bombardier factory. They have gone back home to where they were built.
Rail Delivery Group
Rail freight delivering £1.5 billion a year benefit to Britain
14/05/2014
British businesses are saving £1bn a year – or £2.7m a day – by using rail to transport goods, according to a new report published today by the Rail Delivery Group.
A further £500 million a year of economic, environmental and social benefits come from rail freight reducing the number of lorries on roads. Last year, more than 7.6million road journeys were saved by transporting goods by rail, the equivalent of around 7,000 HGVs driving from London to Edinburgh every day, says the report based on analysis carried out by accountants KPMG.
Since freight was opened up to private competition and investment in the mid-nineties, billions of pounds have been invested in the sector, including on more efficient, longer trains which each carry an average of 50% more cargo than 10 years ago.
Over the next five years, rail freight operators plan to invest hundreds of millions of pounds to carry more goods, faster, more efficiently and with even greater reliability.
Investment has helped rail freight in Britain grow by 70% in the past 20 years and increase its share of the market for transporting goods, in contrast to some still largely European state-run railways.
The sector is now vital to Britain’s economic competitiveness. It transports over £30 billion worth of goods a year from supermarket groceries and premium whiskies to over half the fuel delivered to power stations to generate electricity.
Rail freight also helps ensure British manufacturing can compete globally by sending products on the first leg of their global journey, connecting factories with container ports.
Peter Maybury, chairman of Freightliner and the RDG freight group, said: “High levels of private sector investment and innovation matched by significant infrastructure improvement are now helping rail freight to bring £1.5 billion a year of benefits to Britain’s businesses and the wider economy.
“Rail freight helps keep shop shelves stocked and the power on while taking thousands of lorries off the roads, reducing harmful emissions and keeping Britain competitive in the global economy.
“Rail freight has been transformed over the past two decades and is set to keep growing. By continuing to drive efficiency and improve performance, operators could help more than double the size of the sector over the next three decades and increase the economic benefits of rail freight to over £4 billion a year.”
Rail freight saves Britain £1.5 billion a year(Lloyds Loading List)
Crossrail
Today is the 5th anniversary of work starting on the Crossrail project, when the first pile was launched at Canary Wharf Station!
The story so far......
General Crossrail info
- Crossrail is Europe’s largest construction project – work started in May 2009 and there are currently over 10,000 people working across over 40 construction sites.
- Over 35 million working hours have been completed on the Crossrail project so far.
- Crossrail will transform rail transport in London, increasing capacity by 10%, supporting regeneration and cutting journey times across the city.
- The Crossrail route will run over 100km from Reading and Heathrow in the west, through new tunnels under central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.
- There will be 40 Crossrail stations including 10 new stations at Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel, Canary Wharf, Custom House, Woolwich and Abbey Wood.
- Crossrail will bring an extra 1.5 million people to within 45 minutes of central London and will link London’s key employment, leisure and business districts – Heathrow, West End, the City, Docklands – enabling further economic development.
- The first Crossrail services through central London will start in late 2018 – an estimated 200 million annual passengers will use Crossrail.
- The total funding envelope available to deliver Crossrail is £14.8bn.
Australia.
Regional Rail Link: Anderson Road, Sunshine road/rail separation
This video shows the designs for the road/rail separations on Anderson Road, Sunshine, built as part of the Regional Rail Link project.
At the level crossing near Sun Crescent and Forrest Street, a new road bridge has been constructed at approximately the same height as the current road and the railway line has been lowered. Trains on the Ballarat line now run on new tracks underneath Anderson Road.
The level crossing near the HV McKay Memorial Gardens and King Edward Avenue has been removed and replaced with a new road underpass. The Sunbury, Bendigo and freight railway lines remain at their current height and a new road has been constructed underneath.
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