Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has signed a contract to refurbish CrossCountry’s Voyager trains, transforming the on-board experience for customers. The contract, valued at around £60 million (€70 million) will see the trains receive an interior refresh – including new seats and tables – while their exteriors will be repainted in CrossCountry’s new livery. The work will…
XPO, quick to spot an opportunity to build competitive edge, has been the first roll to out the new UKWA Warehouse Manager CPC (Certificate of Professional Competence) course for its employees, and has achieved a 100% pass rate for the first cohort of six, drawn from across the XPO UK network The CPC course took place at XPO’s Crick centre…
Now you can earn more revenue from your depot EV chargers as Paua enables you to share your depot with other businesses thanks to an innovative shared depot project funded by Department for Transport Paua is collaborating with partners to enable the sharing of private depot charge points with commercial vehicle operators in a major step forward in fleet charging…
Leipzig – Since 1 June of this year, Gruber Logistics has deployed its first electric truck for Siemens. This E-truck handles transport within a 100-kilometer radius of the Siemens Smart Infrastructure low-voltage switchgear plant in Leipzig, covering an average of 250 kilometers daily. The emission-free truck, charged at the Leipzig Siemens facility, is powered by electricity generated entirely from renewable…
Fools Rush In …. The fool in this case is fbb and not Gustave Eiffel, seen above in a studio portrait with his granddaughters. Trying to cover the worldwide work of the celebrated Engineer, Architect and Meteorologist (who died in 1923 aged 91) in a short blog is just plain daft! … Where Angels Fear To Tread. Gus was no…
Apparently This Is Ilegal! According to Wikipedia and the London Evening Standard (so it MUST be right) it is illegal in the EU to take photographs of any historic building which has been deemed copyright by its owners. The construction pictured above is too old to be copyrighted, but the authorities have claimed such protection for any pictures of this…
Any mention of overcrowding on the Elizabeth line tends to elicit either the suggestion that TfL should run more trains or that they lengthen the trains which are currently nine carriages long. If the latter, some people are quick to point out that the Crossrail platforms on the newly built central operating section (Paddington to Abbey Wood) were designed to…
When DO The Buses Go? They certainly go to Mount Batten, but they do not go to Mountbatten. The above picture is of a stop on the Singapore MTR rail network. It is on the ORANGE “Circle” line. It was named after Lord Louis Mountbatten who, in turn, was named after Mount Batten at Plymouth! But back to more mundane…
Software collaborators set to reduce costs and carbon with new AI/ERP solution Optimize, a leading transport optimisation specialist is joining with midlands software developer jobmate to introduce a cloud-based, AI-driven Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform which the company says, cuts costs, reduces vehicle emissions and increases overall business efficiency in the logistics industry and beyond. Based in the north-east and a prominent…
National Express West Midlands (NXWM) drivers Lee Grantham, Paul Jarvis and Danny Bayley will represent the West Midlands’ leading bus company at next month’s 2024 UK Bus Driver of the Year competition. Lee from the Acocks Green depot secured first place, Paul from the Birmingham Central depot came second, and Danny from the Coventry depot placed third. All three are now through…