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Stories in chronological order (not necessarily the date added to the site)
30 June 2008 - St
Pancras International - (c) ERS - Hosted on Youtube.com
30 June 2008 -
New Manchester Metro construction contract awarded - from Railnews.Co.Uk
30 June 2008 -
Overcrowding leads to Australian tram cuts - from Progress Leader.com.au
30 June 2008 -
Manchester Metrolink derailment - from BBC.co.uk
30 June 2008 -
Heritage interurban railcar to make a comeback - from Canada.com (also see
http://www.fvhrs.org/ )
30 June 2008 -
Perth
(Australia) transport plans - from the west.com.au
29 June 2008 -
Bombardier consider new Indian factory - from business-standard.com
28 June 2008 -
Newcastle Metro wheelchair difficulties - from BBC.co.uk
28 June 2008 -
National Express Group benefits from high fuel prices - from FT.com
27 June 2008 -
Edinburgh Tram work disruption - from the Scotsman.com
25 June 2008 -
Interurban railway celebrates 100 years - from Dallas News.com
25 June 2008 -
Well
done Tama! - from the Hindu.com
29 April 2008 -
Channel Tunnel seeks shareholder funding - from Reuters.Com
4 November 2007 -
Metronet special review suspended by Administrators from FT.com
4 November 2007 -
UK Governments radical new transport plan - from FT.com
4 November 2007 -
Scottish Transport plans for Glasgow - Edinburgh corridor - from Transport
Scotland - 3mb pdf file
31 October 2007 -
Nottingham
trams in access dispute
16 October 2007 -
UK Bus & Light Rail quarterly report - April - June 2007 - Department for
Transport publication
16 October 2007 -
Glasgow
Underground bans the "Bouncy Bouncy" song! - from The Scotsman.com
16 October 2007 -
Glasgow Underground bans the "Bouncy Bouncy" song!!! - from BBC.co.uk
5 October 2007 -
Crossrail gets
the green light - from BBC.co.uk
19 September 2007 -
Dublin LUAS tramway - (c) ERS (Short video clip - hosted by Youtube.com)
14 August 2007 -
East Coast win for National Express - from BBC.co.uk
14 August 2007 -
East Coast win for National Express - from telegraph.co.uk
14 August 2007 -
Exclusive look at Eurostar - BBC.co.uk video of St Pancras station
23 July 2007 -
Tubelines
looks for some Metronet business - from Guardian.co.uk
16 July 2007
Metronet faces
administration - from BBC.co.uk
22 June 2007
London Midland franchise goes to GoVia - from Railnews.co.uk
22 June 2007 London Overground franchise awarded
22 June 2007
East Midlands franchise awarded to Stagecoach - from Railwaypeople.com
19 June 2007
Shanghai maglev still a possibility...
7 June 2007 -
Asfordby test track under Metronet control - from Forbes.com
29 May 2007
Iran considering maglev for pilgrims
28 May 2007 -
Shanghai maglev plans suspended - from Chinadaily.com.cn
19 May 2007
Manchester Metro
Service Alterations
19 May 2007
NZ
Government goes for Auckland Electrification
9 May 2007
Metronet gets
Victoria Line Stock (in Detail) - from Transportbriefing.co.uk
8 May 2007
Metronet gets first Victoria Line Stock
17 April 2007
Isle of Man announces bike plan for Manx Electric Railway
14 April 2007
London
Underground test track - in Nottinghamshire - from Guardian Unlimited
12 April 2007
Facelift for Newcastle Metro's Queen Elizabeth II bridge - from Bdaily.info
11 April 2007
San Francisco
light rail opens
8 April 2007 Isle of Man
to run extra trains in TT week
5 April 2007
British Land to rebuild London Euston station - from Reuters.co.uk
5 April 2007
Gatwick Express earns
reprieve - from BBC.co.uk
3 April 2007
SNCF set new speed
record for rail - 357 mph/574.8 kmh - from BBC.co.uk
3 April 2007
Worldwide
subway map database - from Amadeus.Net
29 March 2007
British Class 87's in Austria (from Bahn News Austria)
18 January 2007
Little Rock
extends historic line
free counters
The Electric Railway Society
