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 […]
The latest victim of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the UK’s Infrarail exhibition. Scheduled to be held at London’ Olympia on 12-14 May, it has been put back a year and will now be co-located […]
Recent inspections at Parton, on the Cumbrian coast, after the area had been pounded by storms Ciara, Dennis and Jorge, found that the huge waves and gales had caused cracks to appear in a railway […]
To keep the railway running during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Network Rail is appealing for retired signallers, or those who have moved to other careers in the railway industry, to return to roles in the […]
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) will temporarily suspend the Gatwick Express service from Monday 30 March as part of phased timetable changes agreed with government to maintain train services for key workers. In addition, further reductions […]
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