Network Rail

railjournal | October 02, 2017

BRITAIN’s secretary of state for transport Mr Chris Grayling has approved a £60.4m project to construct a second track on part of the congested 19.5km branch linking the Great Eastern Main Line at Ipswich with the port of Felixstowe.The project involves constructing a second track on the 1.8km section between Grimston Lane foot crossing and Trimley station. Infrastructure manager Network Rail says this will increase freight capacity from 33 to 47 trains per day, while also improving ...

Supply Chain digital | February 21, 2018

Network Rail is embarking on a £47bn procurement programme across its supply chain, which will encompass thousands of companies. The organization’s delivery arm for renewals and projects, Infrastructure Projects (IP) organizes itself into four regional areas; Scotland North East, Central, Southern, and Western and Wales, and national programmes for signaling track and the pan-regional Northern Programme. The Office of Rail and Road will now review and consider Network Rail&rsqu...

Yahoo Finance | June 18, 2019

This 8 year contract, valued up to £300m will see TVS SCS supporting Network Rail to transform part of its Material & Logistics supply chain covering a wide range of general consumables, commodities and rail specific spares for a variety of customers including Maintenance, Works Delivery and Projects, consolidating the supply from over 300 suppliers. TVS will implement its bespoke inventory planning and management software and deploy industry-leading purchasing and logistics expertise ...

Cranfield University | November 12, 2019

Network Rail and Cranfield School of Management have agreed an educational partnership between the two organisations. Network Rail is offering employees in its supply chain operations function a suite of development opportunities provided by Cranfield, including course content relevant to the railway supply chain. Network Rail owns and operates Britain’s railway infrastructure, they are responsible for 20,000 miles of track, 30,000 bridges, tunnels and viaducts and the thousands of signals...