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InTheNews: The latest rail news on Thursday, 7th December 2023
The boss of Derby-based train builder Alstom has told MPs the company only has six weeks worth of continuous manufacturing work left.
An article on the BBC website says city council and business leaders have been in London on Wednesday to lobby Parliament about a lack of orders.
Alstom is consulting on hundreds of potential redundancies.
Managing director Nick Crossfield said: “In six weeks, we go from an annual output of 650 (rail) cars, employing 3,000 people, to zero.”
Transport for Wales has once again broken promises to Cheshire commuters as it announced today it is pushing back the return to hourly frequency of its Chester to Liverpool service.
An article on Cheshire Live says services were reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and were due to return to pre-COVID frequency on Sunday (December 10).
The firm now says the hourly service will not return until the new year. It is the fourth time Transport for Wales (TfW) has pushed back the reinstatement of the hourly service, with Chief Executive James Price saying it will return “as early as possible in the new year”.
An operator has been secured for the multimodal freight terminal at iPort in Doncaster.
An article on Insider Media Limited says the UK subsidiary of MEDLOG SA, part of the MSC Group of companies, has agreed terms with pan-European logistics specialist Verdion.
The transport and logistics provider has taken a long-term lease of the facility with handover expected to complete in the first quarter of 2024. Lifting and storage of containers at the iPort Rail terminal will be performed under the MEDLOG brand.
McLaren Property and Arlington Real Estate have been selected as the strategic developer for one of the UK’s largest city centre regeneration schemes.
Network Rail and Homes England have selected McLaren Property and Arlington Real Estate as the preferred developer for their major brownfield scheme, York Central.
York Central is being brought forward by a partnership between Network Rail, Homes England, the City of York Council and the National Railway Museum. The scheme has the potential to significantly boost the local economy by creating up to 6,500 jobs and delivering over £1.1 billion of Gross Value Added to the economy of York per annum.
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