InTheNews: The latest rail news on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024<\/p>\n
Urgent calls have been made to secure thousands of jobs at Alstom\u2019s Derby site after production lines stopped due to a lack orders in the immediate future.<\/p>\n
Nick Crossfield, Managing Director of Alstom UK & Ireland, said: \u201cWe have worked constructively with the Government on securing a sustainable future for Derby Litchurch Lane, but after ten months of discussions we have run out of time, and the production lines have stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will now consult with our staff, with trades unions and with our UK supply chain to provide as much certainty as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
A major round of industrial action will disrupt National Rail services and the London Underground over the next month, as train drivers strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.<\/p>\n
An article on City A.M says members of the Aslef union are launching two rolling one-day Tube strikes and walk-outs at 16 major rail operators across April and May.<\/p>\n
Passengers have been advised to check the National Rail website for up-to-date information before they travel. Tube service updates can be found on the Transport for London (TfL) website.<\/p>\n
It comes over a year and a half into the national dispute, which began in June 2022 when the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union staged a first set of train strikes.<\/p>\n
Work has started on a multimillion-pound upgrade to the iPort Rail inland port in South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
An article on Insider Media Limited says Winvic Construction is due to hand over the completed works to client Verdion in autumn 2025.<\/p>\n
iPort Rail sits within the iPortl logistics hub, which offers six million sq ft of logistics and industrial space on an 800-acre site just outside Doncaster.<\/p>\n
The terminal extension works will double its current size and storage capacity, and increase number of trains that the terminal can accommodate each day.<\/p>\n
A group of volunteers have spent almost two decades building a railway station from scratch.<\/p>\n
An article on the ITV website says from the track to the signal box everything has been made at Boughton Station in Northampton.<\/p>\n
More than half a mile of track was even laid by hand at Boughton, the latest addition to the Northampton and Lamport Railway.<\/p>\n
The railway has over 300 members and is run entirely by volunteers.<\/p>\n
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