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Rolling stock manufacturer Alstom has posted third quarter results showing an 11% rise in sales year on year (link below.)
http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/story.php?id=5489

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has criticised rail companies for failing to do enough to avoid fatalities and injuries at their stations (link below.)
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23623723-details/IDS+attacks+rail+firms+over+station+death/article.do

Passengers using the Arun Valley line are being regularly dumped at Horsham so that a late-running train can be run fast to Barnham and make up time, a West Chiltington man has claimed (link below.)
http://www.westsussextoday.co.uk/ws/Rail-revolt-as-trains-dump.4893530.jp

Bombardier Transportation, has been forced to lay off 77 workers at its Derby factory ^ despite having a full order book ^ because some of its suppliers have had credit facilities withdrawn by their banks. Bombardier now faces paying compensation ^ "liquidated damages" ^ to train operators for late delivery of new trains (link below.)
http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/general/2009/01/20-bombardier-layoff-workers.html

New state-of-the-art rail hopper wagons are now transporting aggregates on behalf of CEMEX UK▸ (United Kingdom), building materials provider, increasing its rail transportation to over 10% of all transport (link below.)
http://www.hub-4.com/news/1569/new-hoppers-to-increase-rail-transportation-to-over-10-for-cemex-uk

The Basque militant group Eta has claimed responsibility for shooting dead a businessman who was involved in building a high-speed railway in Spain. It warned that anyone else involved in the construction of the rail link between the Basque region and Madrid "will be an Eta target." (link below.)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7841878.stm

FOI▸ (Freedom of Information) request relating to East Midlands Trains and its policy for carrying mobility scooters (link below.)
http://www.dft.gov.uk/foi/responses/2009/jan/foi4756/

Network Rail will reduce the volume of track renewals next year and "ramp" them up in the years that follow, to allow time for new, more efficient ways of working to take effect (link below.)
http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=4113&NewsAreaID=2&SearchCategoryID=2

East Coast capacity assessment responses (link below.)
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.9242
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