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June 17, 2020 | Technology

£9.4m awarded to 25 innovative British railway projects

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) and Innovate UK have awarded £9.4m to 25 rail projects as part of the 2020 First of a Kind (FOAK) rail innovation competition.

May 18, 2020 | High-speed

Parliamentary committee issues scathing report on management of HS2

THE British parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) published a scathing report on the HS2 high-speed rail project on May 17 accusing the Department for Transport (DfT) of withholding information regarding the project’s cost and schedule.

May 15, 2020 | Financial

British government agrees £1.6bn funding package for Transport for London

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed to a £1.6bn support package for Transport for London (TfL) to maintain rail and bus services and plug a yawning funding gap.

March 30, 2020 | News

Southeastern and Great Western franchisees secure direct award contract extensions

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) has issued direct award contracts to Govia, a joint venture of Go Ahead (65%) and Keolis (35%), to continue to operate the Southeastern franchise, and FirstGroup to continue to operate the Great Western Railway franchise from April 1.

February 11, 2020 | High-speed

British government issues HS2 green signal to proceed

FOLLOWING weeks of speculation, the British government has finally reaffirmed its commitment to HS2, the project to build a new 338km dedicated high-speed network between London, Birmingham and the north of England.

January 28, 2020 | Infrastructure

Britain launches line and station reopening initiative

BRITAIN’s Department for Transport (DfT) has allocated an initial £500m to a new scheme to reopen lines and stations, the British government announced on January 28.

January 24, 2020 | High-speed

National Audit Office reveals uncertainty over HS2 costs

A report on High Speed 2 (HS2), published on January 24 by Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO), says there is huge uncertainty around the Department for Transport’s (DfT) latest estimate of the cost of HS2.

September 20, 2019 | Main line

British competition authority probes West Coast Partnership franchise award

BRITAIN’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation on September 19 into the awarding of the West Coast Partnership (WCP) franchise to First Rail Holdings and Trenitalia UK.

September 6, 2019 | News

RIA urges DfT to ‘Show us the Rail Enhancements’

BRITAIN’s Railway Industry Association (RIA) has launched a campaign calling on the Department for Transport (DfT) to reveal the rail enhancement projects it is planning over the next few years to improve visibility for the supply industry.

July 16, 2019 | Policy

Williams: British government needs to “step back” from the railway

THE British government needs to step back from the day-to-day running of the country’s railways, with increased transparency and a greater focus on the needs of passengers, according to Mr Keith Williams, who is leading an independent review into the industry.

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