BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) says that it is planning measures to improve ticketing information for passengers and make it easier for people to choose the best value fare for their journey.

BRUNEL Project Cargo, Britain, a provider of complex freight and logistics services, is set to offer an inaugural China - London direct intermodal rail freight service from January 1.

PORTERBROOK Leasing, Britain, is planning to rollout a new wheel slide protection (WSP) system across its class 15X Sprinter DMU fleets comprising 250 trains following successful tests with a class 156 DMU during the last few months.

THE first class 707 Desiro City suburban EMU being built by Siemens for South West Trains (SWT) has arrived in London. Testing of the first two five-car trains will begin in early 2017 and are due to enter service in April between London Waterloo and Windsor.

THE government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Railway (BR) have agreed a memorandum of understanding with DP Rail, Britain, to design, finance, build, operate and maintain the new 240km Dhaka - Payra railway.

HITACHI Rail has placed an order with Rolls-Royce to supply 136 MTU Series 1600 PowerPacks for installation on 36 class 802 trains that will predominately operate Great Western Railway services between London, Plymouth and Penzance from 2018.

LIVERPOOL City Region Combined Authority gave the go-ahead on December 16 for Merseytravel to place a £460m order with Stadler for a new fleet of 52 EMUs for the Merseyrail suburban network.

A second rail link between London and Oxford was completed on December 11 with the start of a new 30-minute-interval service operated by Chiltern Railways.

ONTARIO Teachers’ Pension Plan and Borealis Infrastructure, Canada, announced on December 8 that they are considering selling their 30-year concession to own, operate and manage Britain’s 109km High-Speed 1 (HS1) link between London St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel.