Ensuring that trains are available and operational throughout their service lives is essential for providing economical, successful rail transportation. The innovative solutions on display in the “Operations & Maintenance” exhibition area at InnoTrans 2024 (Main Hall 1.2, Booth 250) will show just how Knorr Bremse RailServices helps customers to sustain dependable rail mobility. Knorr Bremse will present attractive service models for improving…
The Train’s The Thing At Semmering The Semmering railway was constructed between 1848 and 1854. The construction features 14 tunnels (among them the 1,431 m summit tunnel), 16 viaducts (several two-storey) … … and over 100 stone arch bridges and 11 small iron bridges. The stations and the buildings for the supervisors were often built directly from the waste rock…
Logistics UK Response to Consultation on National Planning Policy Framework – Logistics Industry Needs Consistency and Commitment in Order to Thrive If the country’s logistics industry is to provide the economy with the productivity and profitability boosts it is capable of driving, it is imperative that the National Planning Police Framework (NPPF) is strengthened to recognise the needs of the…
University Upgrade Uplift There must be a huge number of bus managers and transport bloggers who are perennially excited by something. Sam Turner (of Sam’s Trains fame) is one such. But now he is joined by Robert Williams of Reading buses. His latest new bus route is upping his heart rate noiceably. fbb thinks (so possibly unreliably!) that, previously, service…
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Mini Museum The Conway Valley Railway Museum occupies the former goods yard at Betws-y-Coed Station. There is not a lot of it, but if offers many delights. The main building contains a whole heap of railway stuff … … i.e. various bits of railwayana. There is a working model railway … … and a diorama of a typical slate mine.…
Ah, Yes, The Toilets! This is Bewts-y-Coed from above. The road running from upper left diagonally is the mighty A5; on the right is the railway station and bus “terminal” and the building top centre is the Tourist Information block. Walking slowly (the fbbs are old, remember) south from the bus stop (itself to the north of the station and…
Or By Train This hand coloured magic lantern slide has been enhanced (badly) by fbb – but it is the earliest picture on-line of Betws-y-Coed railway station. Next we have an enlargement from a 1961 photo … … which shows two platforms and a bay containing a camping coach. fbb has found no pictures of real chuff chuff steam trains…
Marketing & Communications Manager We are looking for a brilliant Marketing & Communications Manager who is extremely organised hands-on and pro-active friendly has good presentation skills and good communication skills. Find out more and apply at cardiffbusjobs.com REMEMBER: When you contact a company to enquire about the job they are advertising say that you saw it on passengertransport.co.uk…
Marketing & Communications Manager We are looking for a brilliant Marketing & Communications Manager who is extremely organised hands-on and pro-active friendly has good presentation skills and good communication skills. Find out more and apply at cardiffbusjobs.com REMEMBER: When you contact a company to enquire about the job they are advertising say that you saw it on passengertransport.co.uk…