26 Nov 2007
GE enters UK loco market
FREIGHTLINER Group Ltd announced on November 26 that it had ordered 30 locomotives from GE Transportation Systems of the USA, marking the company's ent...
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Bigger, longer, cheaper, greener: Superlorry is coming your way
Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent
November 26, 2007
They are 24ft longer than a bendy bus, as heavy as a fully-...
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Proposals/Plans have been released this morning. You heard it here first.
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Heathrow expansion plans unveiled
Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly has set out proposa...
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Ok, show me your wind turbines! I'll show you mine. There are some pretty impressive ones about, like the one on the M4 in Reading.
Have you any actually in your town/cities? There was one l...
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On Tuesday this week I went to say my farewells to the internatinal station at Waterloo. while I was standing over the escalator watching the last passengers desend into the lower level of the sta...
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This is from The Times today, seems to be saying the same thing that those on the forum have been saying about electrictrifying the system. It also goes to show how little the government really ca...
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Grid to spend £16bn on UK and US networks
National Grid, which is on target with a 21 per cent increase in profits, is poised to sell its 800-site property portfoli...
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I just found this.
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Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce
13/11/2007
MEDIA RELEASE
Immediate: Monday 12 November 2007
The responsible voice of business in Ed...
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Couldn't see an actual thread for this, two very interesting articles detailing the North / South divide. Good to see Lanour MPs taking their own government to task:
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and now morocco signs a deal with the french to build a high speed railway. it seems even the piss shit poor countries in the world can afford it these days -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/eu...
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We complain that not enough is going into the transport system.
Should Transport to be a higher priority for the government?
Should it be a bigger priority then, Education, Healthcare, Ter...
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Good news in my opinion.
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Transport for London only Metronet bidder [http://www.creditman.biz/uk/members/news-view.asp?newsviewID=7819]>
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If you had to say what are the three biggest transport / infrastructure needs of your area, what would you put on the list and why?
Please try to stick to realistic (rather than pie in the sk...
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There is a programme on Wednesday at 10.40 on BBC1 about two people setting up their own railway company called Grand Central:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings..._4223_23022_45 [http://www...
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From www.transportbriefing.com: [http://www.transportbriefing.com:]>
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Plans to return trams to Merseyside could be resurrected within months following comments fro...
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A number of British cities and parts of London have tram projects either under construction or planned.
Manchester's Metrolink is now onto phase 3A with many more extensions planned for the (n...
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If anyone saw the papers this morning, you might have come across articles saying DB was planning to apply for use of the Channel Tunnel to run trains direct from Frankfurt to London. Seems now th...
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This is something i have had an interest in since i was a kid and they stopped running freight trains carrying coal passed my back garden.
I now live in London and have with interest read abou...
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London - Birmingham, what could that cost and what would the travel time be cut to? I think the step after step extension is a good idea. If this gets done in let's say 2014-2018, then extend it f...
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From Today's Evening Standard:
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Scotland given £500m sop for Crossrail
Paul Waugh, Deputy Political Editor
29.10.07
The row over perks for Scotland reign...
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What do you think is the most overcrowded, inefficient, downright terrible tube line in London? For me it's the Northern Line without a doubt. When I used to live in Chiswick, I thought the Distri...
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is the amount of money the DfT have to invest in public transport outside of London (for the next decade).
Source - senior DfT official Martin Wells at the LRT conference in Manchester on 18th S...
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Any motorway projects in the UK or all the motorways are abandomned ??
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Europe's Slowest Cities
10:29am, Monday 15th October, 2007
Posted By: Mary
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Britain's cities are amongst the slowest in Europe.
Here at Keepmoving we surveyed tr...
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