Rolling stock (passenger trains)

Investment, development and maintenance of passenger trains and fleets.

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Guidance and regulation

• Thameslink rolling stock and depot agreements
  • Guidance
  • 5 August 2013
  • Department for Transport
• Competition guidance SBRI first of a kind round 2: demonstrating tomorrow’s stations and a greener railway
  • Notice
  • 19 September 2018
  • Innovate UK
• Thameslink rolling stock project
  • Guidance
  • 8 September 2011
  • Department for Transport
• Competition guidance for SBRI first of a kind round 3: resilience, freight, noise and environment
  • Notice
  • 20 February 2019
  • Innovate UK

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News and communications

• Government confirms funding for TfL to procure new Elizabeth Line trains
  • 14 June 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Current and expected rolling stock procurement opportunities
  • 22 February 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Correspondence
• New life for Platform 1’s Pacer as it is lifted into Huddersfield Station
  • 12 July 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Transport Secretary hails work of transport industry in vaccination roll-out
  • 13 February 2021
  • Department for Transport
  • News story
• Longer trains and more seats for passengers across the Midlands
  • 24 February 2020
  • Department for Transport
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Rail environment: April 2023 to March 2024
  • 29 October 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Rail infrastructure and assets: April 2023 to March 2024
  • 10 October 2024
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Rail emissions: April 2022 to March 2023
  • 14 November 2023
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Rail infrastructure and assets: April 2022 to March 2023
  • 19 October 2023
  • Office of Rail and Road
  • National statistics
• Public Transport Statistics Northern Ireland 2021-22
  • 29 March 2023
  • Department for Infrastructure (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
  • Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

• RVAR 2010 exemption: Hayling Light Railway Trust
  • 19 July 2024
  • Department for Transport
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 16 August 2024
• Rolling Stock Leasing Market Investigation Order 2009: review
  • 19 December 2014
  • Closed organisation: Office of Rail Regulation
  • Closed consultation
  • Date closed 16 February 2015
• Rolling stock perspective 2018: DfT's aspirations for the rail sector
  • 25 October 2018
  • Department for Transport
  • Policy paper

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Organisations

• Department for Transport

• DfT OLR Holdings Limited