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Rail depot firm MTMS steps up as it wins approved supplier status with CBRE

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August 8, 2025
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Midlands rail maintenance firm MTMS has strengthened its position in the UK rail industry by becoming an approved supplier to global real estate services giant CBRE. The company, based in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, has been added to the line-up of trusted firms working with CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS), which manages equipment and facilities at rail […]

Rail depot firm MTMS steps up as it wins approved supplier status with CBRE

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August 8, 2025
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World’s first onboard Pride parade held at The Greatest Gathering

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August 8, 2025
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At The Greatest Gathering festival, LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies from the rail industry marched in the world’s first Pride parade on a train.

Switzerland proposes new measures to reduce wheel fractures risk

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August 8, 2025
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The Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is proposing various measures to improve the safety of freight wagons. Some composite brake blocks pose a heightened…

Train named after station cat to celebrate International Cat Day

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August 8, 2025
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West Midlands Railway (WMR) has named one of its trains that shuttle between Stourbridge Junction and Stourbridge Town as “George the Station Cat”.

Mercitalia improves finances but volumes decline

Marco Raimondi
August 8, 2025
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Mercitalia Logistics, the rail freight branch of Italian state-owned Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has improved its financial figures but volumes have decreased during the first…

Building boom and railways semi-detached

Simon Walton
August 8, 2025
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RailFreight.com UK Editor Simon Walton has a cautious welcome for a government policy to build 1,5 million new homes. Many of those dwellings will be…

China Railway container subsidiary enters Middle Corridor joint venture

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August 8, 2025
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Middle Corridor Multimodal, a joint venture between the national rail operators of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, is getting a new participant. Stakeholders have agreed to…

Metro Tunnel Gears Up For Full Weekend Of Trial Operations

Brian Evans
August 8, 2025
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Trains running on the Sunbury, Cranbourne and Pakenham lines will run through the Metro Tunnel.

Shepparton Railway Line could shut for months affecting passenger and freight

Bardy Bigglesworth
August 8, 2025
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In a new benchmark for insane behaviour from Victoria’s Transport Department a decision has been made to shut a major railway line for months.