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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”.

QantasLink’s Q300s fly off into the sunset

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August 8, 2025
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VH-SBV operated the final Q300 flight for QantasLink on Friday morning, QF2003 from Tamworth to Sydney, having carried more than 1.2 million passengers on 39,000 flights over its lifetime. The 50-seater turboprops joined the Qantas fleet with subsidiar…

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…

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Liberia moves forward with free roaming plans

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August 8, 2025
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The widely anticipated launch of free roaming between Liberia and Sierra Leone seems to have begun, with a Liberia-Cote d’Ivoire deal now much closer.

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…