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 […]
A £2 million project to strengthen and repair a 157-year-old tunnel in the West Midlands is underway. Network Rail is working in Old Hill tunnel in Rowley Regis to repair brickwork, strengthen the structure of […]
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAB) has released a Safety Digest on an explosion that took place on 26 September 2019 aboard an empty train that was travelling between Bombardier Transportation’s Central Rivers maintenance depot […]
The new South Wales Metro Infrastructure Hub, from which Transport for Wales (TfW) will deliver the next phase of the transformation of the valley railway lines for the South Wales Metro, has opened at Treforest, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Loram UK has been awarded an £8 million contract over the next five years for the maintenance of Network Rail’s New Measurement Train. Known as the Flying Banana because of its distinctive yellow livery, the […]
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 […]
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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