Sentences with phrase «rail operator»

Plus, many rail operators give discounts to children, students, seniors, military personnel and others.

As for trains, during certain months, rail operators face political pressure to prioritize movement of agricultural products.

It's a must attend event for airline and rail operator representatives responsible for onboard catering, travel retail or passenger comfort.

Our global network represents rail operators and manufacturers, rolling stock leasing companies, banks, private clients, and corporations.

Most of the famous railroads in the US are now given over almost entirely to freight but the sole intercity passenger rail operator in the US, Amtrak, offers a comfortable - even luxurious - way of seeing the States and there's no better way to do it than on a Great Rail Journeys holiday.

Advised on the initial acquisition of a majority stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

Stephenson Harwood advised Ambience Ventures Limited on its acquisition of a 34 per cent stake in the national rail operator of Kenya and Uganda, Rift Valley Railways...

On Monday, Alberta introduced legislation that allows the energy minister to use export permits to tell truckers, pipeline companies and rail operators how much of what products can be shipped when and where.

It would direct pipeline companies, truckers and rail operators on how much oil product they ship and when.

Rail operator pledges to maintain zero - carbon journeys while refocusing on cutting company - wide emissions by a quarter

Government considers putting Great Northern under public control whtimes.co.uk Great Northern, which operates through Welwyn Hatfield and Potters Bar, may be put under a new rail operator that will be be run under public control, it has been announced today.

The report also outlines a baseline scenario, built around these trends, to size the business potential for passenger rail in 2020, and concludes with comments on how passenger rail operators can take advantage of the trends transforming the industry landscape, and position themselves to benefit from opportunities that currently lie beyond their borders.

Looking for information relating to possible disruption to travel in April, May and June due to French rail operator SNCF industrial action?

Eurostar is currently the only rail operator in the world to be registered on GDS in its own right.

This despite the fact that the LIRR has the lowest farebox operating ratio of the region's major rail operators.

These include the largest European rail operator, Deutsche Bahn, and the region's biggest bus provider, FlixBus.

Rail operators want long - term deals from shippers, but oil companies prefer to have the flexibility to shift to pipelines if space becomes available.

LHI effectively opens up rail lines to competing rail companies, including U.S. rail operators.

After all, rail operators get to take profits when things go right, so it's not clear why they should get bailed out when things go wrong.

Rail operator Northern's regional director Paul Barnfield added: «It has been a long and difficult 12 months for those who use the Settle to Carlisle railway, but we can not overstate the size of the task that Network Rail had to face.»

While the largest freight railroads generally have access to investment capital — a record $ 30 billion in 2015 — most intercity passenger and commuter rail operators depend on public funds to pay for or finance infrastructure and equipment.

Unlike the National Transportation Act, which provided little room for rail operators to restructure their operations and become more productive, the Canada Transportation Act allowed railways to speed up their restructuring via employment reductions, investments in more efficient equipment, and elimination of low - traffic lines.

British travellers can now book train tickets across any UK rail operator without paying a booking fee, all on one website — as leading online travel agent Expedia edges into rail.

Services into Zurich had been disrupted, with Swiss rail operator SBB announcing intercity services between Zurich and Stuttgart, in Germany, has been rerouted.

SOUTH West Trains are now the latest rail operator to team up with Eurostar.

From 2012 the luxury rail operator it will introduce special food and beverage privileges for customers in single or twin sleeping berths, which will add an extra dimension to this celebrated journey.

In 2014, Rovos Rail purchased six surplus diesel locos from Aurizon, a major Australian rail operator.

Furthermore, Eurostar has become the first rail operator to become officially «Carbon Neutral», whilst in mountainous countries like Switzerland, trains actually return electricity to the grid whilst travelling downhill - on some routes this means the net power usage is close to zero.

City planners would do well to spend a bit of time in Tokyo's suburbs and take a few cues from the Japanese rail operators who have built whole cities around their suburban stations.

TreeHugger has reported on this many times, with Eurostar claiming 90 % emissions reductions over flying (and later becoming the first carbon neutral rail operator), and Virgin making a big to - do about biodiesel trains.

Perhaps most encouraging, transportation companies like rail operator Network Rail and the Highways Agency have signed up to create and enhance pollinator habitats along railway verges and highways, essentially using Britain's existing network of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their habitat.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood LLP has assisted rail operator Abellio in mobilising its operations for the new East Anglia franchise, which started on 16 October 2016.

Germany's Deutsche Bahn rail operator reported on Saturday morning that passenger information displays in some stations were inoperative.

CALGARY, Feb 18 (Reuters)- Canadian Pacific Railway Co, the country's second - biggest rail operator, is considering what to do with C$ 2 billion ($ 1.83 billion) in surplus real estate, its chief executive said on Tuesday as he defended plans to impose a surcharge on oil tankers he considers unsafe.

Rail operator pledges to maintain zero - carbon journeys while refocusing on cutting company - wide emissions by a quarter

The German national rail operator is the undisputed big daddy on which most other European rail companies are weaned.

SNCF, the French rail operator, had to slow down its high - speed TGV service but said it would maintain 97 % of its normal operations.

Eurostar is the only rail operator in the world to be registered on GDS in its own right.

As Pearce points out, many rail operators are cashing in on green concerns by promoting trains vs flying.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 (Reuters)- Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

With fewer platforms available, the repair work will complicate schedules for the three rail operators that use Penn Station: the national rail corporation Amtrak and the regional commuter train operators New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Rail Road.

Leading air and rail operators are pushing sustainability goals, with low - cost carrier Ryanair revealing a commitment to eliminate non-recyclable plastics from its services by 2023 more

Leading air and rail operators are pushing sustainability goals, with low - cost carrier Ryanair revealing a commitment to eliminate non-recyclable plastics from its services by 2023

New York will take legal action to halt a rail operator's plan to store thousands of railcars indefinitely in the Adirondack Park.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood kicked off the 2010 national Distracted Driving Summit today by announcing new anti-distracted driving regulations for drivers transporting hazardous materials, commercial truck and bus drivers, and rail operators, and by identifying more than 550 U.S. companies — employing 1.5 million people nationwide — that have committed to enacting anti-distracted driving employee policies in the next twelve months.

This can result in additional hardship and expense on behalf of the owner if Amtrak, the national rail operator, with more than 500 destinations, is their only option for transportation to a particular area.