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TRAIN worker calls on staff to help her find missing fiancé

Robert 'Robbie' Smith, 57, a Virgin West Coast revenue protection manager, has been missing for more than ten weeks but has failed to contact his fiancee Janice Aubrey. full story

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  £40 million plan for freight trains at Nuneaton

  NETWORK Rail has announced plans to invest more than £40 million to build a new rail freight link in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Known as the Nuneaton North Chord, the new line – approximately one mile long – will allow freight to cross from Eastern England, via Peterborough and Leicester, to the West Coast Main Line without disrupting passenger services.

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  Extra West Coast Pendolino carriages — by 2012

  THE Department for Transport has reached agreement with Alstom for the construction of extra and longer tilting Pendolino trains for West Coast Main Line inter-city services. And GoVia and Virgin have been short-listed as bidders to manage their introduction.

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  Network Rail gets green light to complete West Coast by December 2008

  NETWORK Rail has been given the go-ahead by the Office of Rail Regulation to complete work on the £8.6 billion West Coast main line modernisation by December this year.

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  Mobile phone reception improves — wi-fi to follow — on Virgin West Coast

  HALF of Virgin West Coast’s fleet of 52 Pendolino trains have now been converted to provide better mobile phone reception — and broadband wi-fi will be available by the end of this year.

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  EWS Energy
 wins new ScottishPower contract

  EWS Energy has won a new contract from ScottishPower for the delivery of coal by rail to two major power stations in Scotland.