Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps has announced that rail travel, in the second week of the Coronavirus (CORVID-19) epidemic, has dropped still further. The figures, which he shared with followers in a tweet, […]
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has stepped into the gap left by the suspension of Hull Trains services and has reinstated its own service from Hull to London and back. The LNER services had been […]
The charity FareShare Yorkshire’s is benefitting from the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic as London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is diverting sandwiches, normally used for on-board catering, to this worthy cause. Onboard catering has been temporarily […]
With the Coronavirus (COVID-19) affecting everything, and train operators running under an emergency measures agreement for at least the next six months, the Department for Transport is understandably not prepared to make major short-term changes […]
First Group, which yesterday suspended all services by its open-access train operator Hull Trains, has signed a new direct-award agreement to ensure continuity of Great Western Railway (GWR) services from London to the West and […]
Hull Trains, the open-access operator that normally runs 92 services a week from Hull to London, is suspending operations after the last train on Sunday 29 March 2020 “to safeguard the future of the business”. […]
Neil Hannah has been appointed as chairman of Network Certification Body (NCB), succeeding Tim Dugher. NCB is the Network Rail subsidiary that provides a system-wide approach to railway assurance and certification on infrastructure, vehicle and […]
Network Rail has responded to a request by the army for assistance in delivering two lorry loads of protective medical face masks for frontline workers in the NHS. Railway workers uses Network Rail vehicles for […]
The railway line between East Grinstead and Lingfield, closed since 13 February 2020, is due to reopen on Monday 30 March. The embankment is near Cookspond Viaduct in Dormansland, Surrey. Constructed in the Victorian period […]
France has deployed one of its TGV duplex double-deck high-speed trains to move patients suffering from Corinavirus (COVID-19) from areas where hospitals are overcrowded to other regions of the country. The first such train has […]
Copyright © 2025 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes