BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) and train operators CrossCountry and East Midlands Trains have announced that the £200m remodelling of track and signalling in the area around Derby station will be upgraded during 79-days of engineering, starting on July 22 2018.

A financial agreement has been reached between all partners involved in the Pennsylvania Station-Farley Complex project to transform New York City’s James Farley Post Office into a world-class transport hub to relieve pressure on the cramped facilities at Penn station.

DESIGNS have been unveiled for an expanded station at Ourense, in northwest Spain, by architects Foster & Partners and Juan Cabanelas.

GERMAN Rail (DB) is using Building Information Modelling (BIM) to digitally design new railway stations, and the first is being piloted in Hösel, Ratingen, in North-Rhine Westphalia.

THE stations and connections division of French National Railways (SNCF) has signed a research and exchange agreement with MIT Senseable City Lab, United States, to improve station comfort.

CZECH REPUBLIC’s Railway Infrastructure Administration (SẐDC) announced on January 9 that it will invest Koruna 600m ($US 23.5m) in repairing stations in 2017.

British operators are having to radically rethink their approach to station design and management to tackle capacity challenges and respond to the changing needs and expectations of passengers. Interserve transport director Kevin Murgatroyd considers what lessons could be drawn from their approach for others contemplating station upgrade plans.

TURKISH State Railways (TCDD) inaugurated Ankara’s new $US 235m high-speed station on October 29 with a celebration that was attended by president Mr Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and prime minister Mr Binali Yildilrim.

BRITISH franchisee Virgin Trains has launched an app to make it easier for passengers to find their way around stations as well as locate friends and translate signs into their own language.

NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) inaugurated a new station at Breda on September 8, which is one of the ‘New Key Projects’ to serve high-speed lines across the Netherlands.