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West Midlands Trains must invest £20m to improve services after breaching franchise agreement

9 February 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

West Midlands Trains (WMT), the company that operates West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern services, has been told by government that it must spend an extra £20m on improving services for passengers after badly breaching […]

Business

New trains on Merseyside

28 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The first of 52 new trains for Merseyrail has been unveiled in Liverpool by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram. The Class 777 trains, which are being built by Stadler of Switzerland, will be publicly owned by […]

Appointments

Three senior appointments at Southeastern

18 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Southeastern, the Govia-owned train operator that runs train services into London from Kent and East Sussex, operates over 2000 trains and carries more than 640,000 passengers a day, has made three senior appointments to its […]

Appointments

Julian Edwards to head up West Midlands Trains

16 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Julian Edwards, the interim managing director of East Midlands Railway for the first few months of its new franchise, has been named as the new managing director of West Midlands Trains (WMT). With over 20 […]

Business

SWR completes refurbishment of 172 Desiro trains

10 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

South Western Railway (SWR) has completed its £70 million programme to refurbish its fleet of 172 Class 444 and 450 ‘Desiro’ trains. The programme, which began in December 2017, was completed by the trains’ original […]

Business

Alstom to overhaul and maintain Avanti Pendolino fleet in £642 million deal

8 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Avanti West Coast, the new operator of express inter-city trains on the West Coast main line, has announced that all 56 of its electric Pendolino train fleet will be overhauled in a £642 million, seven-year […]

Business

ScotRail train fleet now exceeds 1,000 carriages

7 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Scotland’s Railway now has a fleet of over 1,000 carriages, an increase of over 28 since the start of the current Abellio franchise. As ScotRail completed its rollout of Class 385 trains into passenger service […]

Metro

London Overground reschedules ticket office opening times but retains staffing of every station from first train to last

7 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

With the increase in electronic tickets and contactless payments, sales of traditional paper tickets for railway journeys have declined markedly. Last year, London Overground sold one million fewer tickets than it did in 2016, with […]

Business

Fare rebate for TransPennine Express season-ticket holders

7 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Train operator TransPennine Express (TPE), which introduced a fleet of three classes of new trains last year, has now admitted that issues connected with the launch had affected its service to passengers. In compensation, the […]

Appointments

South Western Railway appoints Mark Hopwood as managing director

6 January 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Mark Hopwood has taken over as managing director of South Western Railway (SWR). Jointly owned by FirstGroup (70 per cent) and MTR Corporation (30 per cent), SWR took over the South Western franchise from South […]

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  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
  • Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
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  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • The Black Country Innovative Manufacturing Organisation (BCIMO) went into administration on 1 July 2025.
    BCIMO sold to Dudley Council
    23 July 2025 0
  • Wales to take train operations into public ownership
    22 October 2020 0
  • New services and new stations for Walsall to Wolverhampton line
    15 June 2020 1
  • Keeping leaves – and trees – off the line
    23 October 2020 1
  • First Class 802 bi-mode for Hull Trains is nearing completion
    2 August 2019 0
  • Beeston Castle & Tarporley Station
    Funding for 15 more schemes to reopen railways and stations closed under Beeching
    27 November 2020 0
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