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  • [ 4 June 2025 ] Rail regulator recommends improvements in revenue protection Governance
  • [ 4 June 2025 ] Plans for West Yorkshire trams receive major funding boost Governance
  • [ 4 June 2025 ] Lumo awards £50 million contract to enhance and service its Class 222 trains to Alstom Business
  • [ 3 June 2025 ] First Siemens Vectron MS loco handed over to Italian operator RTC Business
  • [ 19 May 2025 ] More trains between Bradford and London following government investment Governance
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Jim McMahon to be Shadow Transport Secretary

6 April 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Jim McMahon, MP for Oldham West and Royton, has been named as the new Shadow Secretary of State for Transport by Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer. He succeeds Andy McDonald, who moves on to […]

Business

GWR signs agreement to operate until 2023

30 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

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 […]

Business

Government steps in to take cost risk off train operators and keep trains running

23 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 2

The government has announced that, due to the current Coronavirus (COVOD-19) pandemic, it is taking emergency measures to support and sustain necessary rail services as operators face significant drops in their income. The Department for […]

Business

2020 Budget – coronavirus, infrastructure and potholes

11 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The measures announced in Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s first budget were naturally overshadowed by the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.  He announced a series of measures to protect workers, jobs, employers and the general […]

Electrification

Grant Shapps addresses rail industry concerns in letter to Transport Select Committee

6 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport (DfT) has published a letter from Secretary of State Grant Shapps to the Transport Select Committee in which he answers a number of questions about the future of the rail network. […]

Governance

Transport Select Committee membership announced

3 March 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Following the earlier announcement that Huw Merriman MP would chair the Transport Select Committee, the full membership has now been agreed. Eleven MPs (the minimum number required) are to sit on the committee, six Conservative, […]

Business

Minister speaks on HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail

27 February 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The government’s plans for both HS2 and the Northern Powerhouse became a little clearer following a speech by Andrew Stephenson MP, Minister of State at the Department for Transport with special responsibility for HS2, Northern […]

Business

Government developing High Speed North – an integrated rail plan for the Midlands and the North

21 February 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that it is working on an integrated rail plan for the Midlands and the North – High Speed North. The Oakervee Review into HS2, published on 11 February […]

Business

New Translink chairman meets with Minister to discuss public transport in Northern Ireland

17 February 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Dr Mark Sweeney OBE, recently appointed as interim chairman of Northern Ireland’s Translink Group by Nichola Mallon, Minister for Infrastructure, has met with the minister and group chief executive Chris Conway to discuss the vital […]

Business

HS2 gets the go-ahead – and so does Northern Powerhouse Rail

11 February 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

On the same day that government released the report of the Oakervee Review into HS2, Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood in the House of Commons and announced: “The Cabinet has given high speed rail the […]

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  • Rail regulator recommends improvements in revenue protection
  • Plans for West Yorkshire trams receive major funding boost
  • Lumo awards £50 million contract to enhance and service its Class 222 trains to Alstom
  • First Siemens Vectron MS loco handed over to Italian operator RTC
  • More trains between Bradford and London following government investment
  • Two new trustees for Railway Benefit Fund
  • Emma Haddow appointed Operations Director at Cementation Skanska
  • Northern City line becomes UK’s first signals-free commuter railway
  • Viaduct upgrade in Cornwall results in higher linespeed and improved reliability
  • A-Train of Sweden orders seven Stadler FLIRT trains for Arlanda airport service
British Steel Christmas 2019 Crossrail HS2 London Overground London Underground Network Rail Northern Ireland Northern Powerhouse RAIB Scotland TfL Trako USA Wales West Midlands
  • 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…
  • The ORR has reported on its review of revenue protection practices on the railway.
  • Artist's impression of a West Yorkshire tram.
  • Visualisation of a Lumo Class 222 train.
  • The first of six Siemens Mobility Vectron MS locomotive has been handed over to RTC at at the Transport Logistic exhibition 2025 in Munich.
  • The first of six Siemens Mobility Vectron MS locomotive has been handed over to RTC at at the Transport Logistic exhibition 2025 in Munich.
    First Siemens Vectron MS loco handed over to Italian operator RTC
    3 June 2025 0
  • More trains between Bradford and London following government investment
    19 May 2025 0
  • Two new trustees for Railway Benefit Fund
    19 May 2025 0
  • Emma Haddow appointed Operations Director at Cementation Skanska
    19 May 2025 0
  • Northern City line becomes UK’s first signals-free commuter railway
    19 May 2025 0
  • Viaduct upgrade in Cornwall results in higher linespeed and improved reliability
    19 May 2025 0
  • The new FLIRT for A-Train will seat 323 passengers and enter service between Stockholm and Arlanda airport in 2029.
    A-Train of Sweden orders seven Stadler FLIRT trains for Arlanda airport service
    19 May 2025 0
  • Campaigners urge PM to support more cross-Channel rail services
    17 May 2025 0
  •  Plan launched to improve Yorkshire’s rail network
    16 May 2025 0
  • Level crossing closed following “shocking misuse”
    16 May 2025 0
  • Welsh and Scottish stations are lit ‘Blue for NHS’
    15 May 2020 0
  • Railway remembers Euston’s first black guard
    15 August 2020 1
  • DB Cargo to buy up to 400 Vectron dual-mode locomotives from Siemens Mobility
    9 September 2020 0
  • Two new trustees for Railway Benefit Fund
    19 May 2025 0
  • Transport Select Committee membership announced
    3 March 2020 0
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