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A new railway station has opened in north Belfast.
An article on the BBC website says the existing Yorkgate halt has been replaced by a station built beside it called York Street.
The transfer of services began on Sunday and the new station is now fully operational.
Network Rail has announced that the first locomotive in Britain’s principal freight fleet (Class 66s) to be fitted with digital signalling equipment is moving on to dynamic testing on a test track, after successfully progressed through static testing.
DB Cargo locomotive 66039 is the ‘First in Class’ (FiC) to be retrofitted with European Train Control System (ETCS) equipment.
With the fitment at the Progress Rail depot in Doncaster complete, it has been hauled to Network Rail’s Rail Innovation and Development Centre (RIDC) in Leicestershire.
HS2 has released images showing the first completed sections of its landmark Curzon Street station viaduct.
Once complete, the viaduct will carry high speed trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street station.
The completion of the first sections marks the next step in HS2’s programme to build a series of viaducts that will carry the railway into Birmingham city centre.
Dozens of rail vehicles have been assembled at a museum in County Durham for what curators claim will be the biggest display of its kind in Europe.
An article on The Standard says Locomotion announced it has completed the movement of 46 vehicles into a new £8 million New Hall building at its site in Shildon.
These include steam locomotives, hand-powered track inspection machines, freight wagons, snow ploughs and an armoured vehicle on tracks.
Filling New Hall involved a complex four-week operation.
