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Reports a flaming JAL A350 has just landed at Tokyo Haneda after colliding on approach with a Japanese Coastguard plane. Not hit mainstream news yet. Update: All 379 passengers and crew on board the commercial flight reported to have evacuated safely, 1 person evacuated from coastguard plane...

Moderator Note - split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/2024-fare-revision.259725/ In 2008 total Government support was £8.053bn In 2022 it was £21.1bn https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1541/table-7270-government-support-to-the-rail-industry.ods The subsidy per passenger km in...

Tfl have published first year operating figures for the Elizabeth line. In its first year it carried 200m people with a record set on Thursday July 6th when it carried 701,000 passengers in a day, its averaging 600,000 passengers midweek, a quarter of the journeys are new and weren't previously...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64355631

Miller and Carter @ Lakeside Shopping Centre Essex, for that authentic Riverboat experience.

RMT staff stage walkout against own union - BBC News Oh the irony.

DC Metro train derailed 3 times on the same day before passengers were forced to evacuate through a dark tunnel, investigators say (yahoo.com) All 7000 series trains (manufactured by Kawasaki and entering service in 2015) on the Washington Metro have been taken out of service after one train...

NR has published the Continuous Modular Strategic Planning (what used to be the RUS process) for the Liverpool region. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Liverpool-City-Region-Strategic-Rail-Study-2020.pdf The gist of it is the new trains will meet the long term demand...

TfL has conducted a trial of only using the front door for passengers and the middle door for wheelchair access on the number 8 route. They found that fare evasion was twice as high on buses when multiple doors were in use compared to one with £3.6m in fare evasion across the Routemaster fleet...

There was another announcement today though likely to fly under the radar of most, DfT has asked for an emergency £3.6bn from the Treasuries contingency fund as a cash advance because they forgot to budget for Network Rails CP6 Grant when the NR funding structure switched from loans to grant...

Bombardier has its being reported won a contract to build and provide rolling stock for a large (60 mile) monorail in Egypt with the 70x4 car monorail trains to be built in derby between 2021 and 2024 on a new production line. Its the first UK rolling stock export since the Gautrain...

Truly the sports car of noses, 22m long nose with 4.5m of passenger space containing just 3 rows of seats in the Alfa-X Shinkansens prototype 2, the Prototype 1 nose was a more modest 16m compared to the existing 15m nose of the E5. The driving cab is integrated into and part of the nose.

According to the Daily Mail Governments about to introduce a bill which from 2020 would set out certain rail services that it would be illegal to strike on to guarantee a minimum service level for passengers. This is going to be Airport services, Peak services and a minimum hourly offpeak...

Mod Note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fire-on-board-hull-trains-1a93.164256/ Unlucky coincidence for Hull, today was the day they announced their new livery.

Hot on the heels of Springs Branch being refurbished as a depot for Northern CAF have announced they have opened a central store and part refurbishment facility on the Aurora industrial estate Stockport that will supply depots in Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow and employ 10 people. They've...

Network Rail have announced today they are spending £46m to refurbish and electrify Springs Branch TMD to house 24 electric and 8 diesel trains for Northern from Dec 2019, they say work began April 9th. Finally official confirmation, they seem to have started then stalled work at Springs Branch...

British Steel have won a contract to supply 20,000 tonnes per year of 120m length rail to Deutsche Bahn. They had to invest £1m upgrading Scunthorpe to produce 120m lengths of Rail as the British Standard is 108m. British Steel hope this will open them up to further EU exports.

NS have ended their tax dodge of leasing trains from themselves via an Irish subsidiary 15 years early.

Main Report http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/26598/Regional-Rail-Usage-2016-17.pdf Detailed tables http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0016/26602/regional-rail-usage-tables-2016-17.xls Notably showing the slowdown in London and the South East passenger growth isn't being...

Bombardier and Hitachi are submitting a joint application to Stratford-upon-Avon District Council alongside QRTC for an approval, endurance testing, commissioning and acceptance, and signal integration testing, test track to open in 2022 and employ 50. It would test products from both their...