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ARA to undertake new research projects to support rail industry

Bardy Bigglesworth
July 31, 2025
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The project has been led by Infrastructure Australia (IA). The ARA is a sponsor for this project, together with Engineers Australia.

40,000 brownfield homes to be built on UK’s surplus railway land

Simon Walton
July 31, 2025
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Rail freight is being placed at the heart of the UK government’s latest housing drive. An initiative, christened the “Platform4 Property Company”, is promising to…

Rare treat “Retro Train” N set returns on Mornington Peninsula Tourist Rly!

Snuffle Nose
July 31, 2025
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Peninsula Tourist Railway Tourist Rly is currently isolated due it being cut off from the mainline of the suburban metropolitan rail system.

voestalpine manufactures world’s first hydrogen-based rail

gobstopper
July 31, 2025
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voestalpine has successfully produced what it claims to be the world’s first hydrogen-based rail at the company’s Donawitz site in Austria.The post voestalpine manufactures world’s first hydrogen-based rail appeared first on Railway Technology.

Union Pacific to acquire Norfolk Southern to create first transcontinental railroad in US

gobstopper
July 31, 2025
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Union Pacific has signed an agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern in a stock and cash transaction, at an enterprise value of $85bn, which will result in a combined enterprise worth over $250bn.The post Union Pacific to acquire Norfolk Southern to creat…

See the trains of 2075 this week at London King’s Cross

Guest authors
July 31, 2025
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LNER show what the trains could look like in 2075

Cumbrian Coast Line partially closed until further notice

Guest authors
July 31, 2025
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Network Rail has closed the Cumbrian Coast line until further notice after recent surveys found areas in Bransty Tunnel that needed strengthening, The surveys were…

A23 road closures announced due to railway bridge work

Guest authors
July 31, 2025
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Specialist steel beams are to be installed on a bridge on the A23 to help protect it from damage caused by bridge strikes. The bridge,…

All Aboard the ‘Train of the Future’

Guest authors
July 31, 2025
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As part of the Railway 200 celebrations, a cross-industry partnership celebrating 200 years of the modern railway, LNER has gazed into the future to predict what train travel could look like in the year 2075. Partnering with Applied Futurist Tom Cheesewright, and asking train passengers of today what they would most like to see in […]

LTG Cargo expands portfolio: HVO pilot and military mobility

Guest authors
July 30, 2025
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Lithuanian national rail freight operator LTG Cargo has introduced two new novelties in the past week. For one, the company is running a pilot for…