Engineering
deal

Rolling
stock
leasing
company
Porterbrook
is
buying
49
per
cent
of
Scottish
railway
firm
Brodie
Engineering,
based
in
Kilmarnock.
Porterbook
said
Brodie
is
the
‘only
active
rail
engineering
business
in
Scotland,
specialising
in
heavy
maintenance,
refurbishment
and
overhauls’.
The
Caledonia
Works
were
previously
occupied
by
Wabtec
and
before
that
Brush-Barclay,
the
successor
to
Hunslet-Barclay.
Porterbrook
CEO
Mary
Grant
said:
‘A
healthy
supply
chain
is
fundamental
to
a
reliable
and
efficient
railway.’




Gateline
strike

Contracted
out
gateline
workers
at
Northern
will
stage
a
48-hour
strike
tomorrow
and
Thursday
in
a
dispute
over
pay.
Their
union
the
RMT
is
also
calling
for
the
ending
of
zero
hours
contracts
and
the
removal
of
the
Timegate
app
which
it
alleges
has
failed
to
calculate
pay
and
leave
allowances
accurately.
The
staff
involved
are
employed
by
Carlisle
Support
Services.




New
Birmingham
Far
East
link

Railway
professionals
at
the
University
of
Birmingham
are
joining
forces
with
East
Japan
Railway
Company
to
create
‘innovative’
rail
technology
and
look
at
new
ways
of
staffing
Japanese
railways.
University
of
Birmingham
Provost
Professor
Stephen
Jarvis
and
Japan
Railway
East
Senior
Executive
Officer
Shunzo
Miyake
signed
a
Memorandum
of
Understanding
in
a
special
ceremony.

Additional
station
proposed
in
south
Wales

Transport
secretary
Mark
Harper
has
pledged
funding
to
pay
for
a
business
case
examining
options
for
reopening
the
station
at
St
Athan
on
the
Vale
of
Glamorgan
line,
which
was
closed
in
June
1964.
He
made
the
promise
while
visiting
the
area
yesterday.

Plaque
commemorates
Covid
victims

A
commemorative
brass
plaque
has
been
unveiled
at
the
National
Railway
Museum
by
Network
Rail
chairman
Peter
Hendy
and
Angela
Levitt-Harwood,
who
is
the
Railway
Mission’s
chaplain
in
the
York
region.
Lord
Hendy
revisited
the
museum
where
he
had
previously
unveiled
a
temporary
version
of
the
plaque.
The
plaque
is
dedicated
to
the
memory
of
railway
employees
and
family
members
who
died
during
the
pandemic
and
commemorates
the
service
and
dedication
shown
by
staff
and
British
Transport
Police.