The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released a ‘Safety Digest’ following the derailment of a freight wagon at Carpenters Road North junction, near Stratford in East London, on 11 June 2019. Although it re-railed […]
Train operators using High Speed 1 (HS1 – the former Channel Tunnel Rail Link) could soon face track access charges that have more than doubled. This is because the rail regulator, the Office of Rail […]
Technology that Alstom originally developed for trams in historic cities has now crossed over and is being used to recharge electric buses. First used in 2003 on trams in Bordeaux, APS (Alimentation par Sol – […]
A Class 66 locomotive has run the full length of the Oban branch in Scotland for the first time. Previously, only lighter locomotives, such as Class 37s, had been permitted to use the single-track line […]
GB Railfreight (GBRf), the UK’s third-largest rail freight operator that provides essential freight and non-freight haulage services to customers in a number of the country’s critical industries, has been sold by current owner Hector Rail […]
A signal passed at danger, or SPAD, is a cause of real concern to the railway industry. It’s how accidents happen. When a train passes a red signal it can run into the back of […]
Autumn is approaching – or may even already be here. And with that come leaves on the line, slippery conditions, train delays and cancellations. Every autumn, the trees that grow along the railway drop thousands […]
Everyone wants their train to arrive in time. Countless passenger surveys have revealed it, and it just makes sense. Now the rail industry is changing the way it measures lateness, to make the statistics more […]
Train operator C2C has released the shortlisted images entered for its City to Coast Views photography competition. South Essex and London locals have submitted photos of their favourite views from Southend and London, in an […]
The Island Line – the rail route that links Ryde Pier Head with Shanklin on the Isle of Wight – is set to receive a new fleet of trains as part of a £26 million […]
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