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1. www.bbc.com › news › business-63798110US rail strike 2022: What would be affected if it happens? - BBC

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   Dec 1, 2022 · Getty Images. The US is facing a potential national rail strike for the first time in 30 years. Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives and Senate voted to stave off a strike by railway...

2. www.cityam.com › owns-uks-railways-well-notWho owns the UK's railways? Well, not British firms in many ...

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   Jan 11, 2017 · Britain's railways carried passenger volumes of 1.6bn in 2016, this compares with volumes of 735m in 1995, just as the privatisation of the UK's rail network began.

3. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-62908922First US rail strike in 30 years averted with tentative deal ...

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   Sep 15, 2022 · 15 September 2022. By Sam Cabral,in Washington. Getty Images. More than one million Americans worked on the railroads in the 1950s, but the industry now employs fewer than 150,000 people. US...

4. www.aljazeera.com › news › 2022/9/15President Biden hails US railway labour deal as ‘big win ...

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   Sep 15, 2022 · 15 Sep 2022. Save articles to read later and create your own reading list. Leading US rail companies and labour unions have reached a tentative deal to avert a major strike over the weekend...

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   Jul 4, 2022 · There was little mourning after the UK’s nationalised train operator, British Rail, ran its last service in 1997. Over its 49-year existence, it had been widely criticised as a complacent ...

6. www.bbc.com › news › business-61634959May train strikes: What routes are affected when this week? - BBC

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   May 9, 2024 · Train companies and the government say the offer rejected by Aslef would take average train driver pay to £65,000. The average salary of rail workers in 2022 was £45,919, according to the ONS.

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   How much did Britain's railways carry in 2016?

   • Britain's railways carried passenger volumes of 1.6bn in 2016, this compares with volumes of 735m in 1995, just as the privatisation of the UK's rail network began. Paterson highlights this was a fall from volumes of just over 1bn in 1948, when British Rail was first brought in to run the network. He said:

   Who owns the UK’s railways? Well, not British firms in many cases

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   Are Britain's railways being taken over by foreign firms?

   • The sale of the C2C rail franchise – labelled by consumer groups as the best network into London – has once again sparked concerns that Britain's railways are being taken over by foreign, often state-owned, firms.

   Who owns the UK’s railways? Well, not British firms in many cases

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   Will a new entrant take over Britain's railways?

   • Unions have piped up that the sale to a new entrant – this time, state-backed Italian firm Trenitalia – is proof that the government is standing by and letting foreign companies take over Britain's railways instead of grabbing the bull by the horns and bringing the network back under public ownership.

   Who owns the UK’s railways? Well, not British firms in many cases

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   How many railway workers are there in 2022?

   • But the number of US railway workers continues to drop from over 600,000 in 1970 to about 150,000 in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, due to technology and cost-cutting. That often means that many industry workers are on call at all hours, waiting to respond at short notice to work for days at a time.

   President Biden hails US railway labour deal as ‘big win’

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8. www.railwaygazette.com › news › regionsNorth American rail industry news - Railway Gazette

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   May 18, 2024 · 10 May 2024By Railway Gazette International. USA: Spanish wheel lathe and machine tool manufacturer Danobat has acquired Michigan based Delta Wheel Truing Solutions, which designs and manufactures rolling stock wheel re-profiling equipment and has several patents as well as an established customer base.