After 24 years, the government has announced the end of rail franchising as the long-awaited Williams Report, still not seen in public, is acted upon. This first step towards bringing Britain’s fragmented rail network back […]
Five years to the day since Her Majesty The Queen opened the Borders Railway between Edinburgh, Midlothian, and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders on 9 September 2015, the Campaign for Borders Rail continues to argue […]
Boulderstones bridge, which takes the A530 Middlewich Road over the railway between Crewe and Chester, has been renewed by Network Rail in a £5.7 million project and the line reopened to passengers. Middlewich Road will […]
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown slowly eases, the UK’s heritage railways are starting to come out of hibernation and are opening again for enthusiasts and tourists. To help them do this safely, the Heritage Railway […]
Plans are proceeding for the reopening of the line between Walsall and Wolverhampton, last used for passenger services in 2008 but kept open since then for freight. New stations will be opened at Willenhall and […]
The Welsh Government has approved an ‘Emergency Measures Agreement’, under which it will spend up to £65 million over the next six months to help Transport for Wales Rail Services cope with the ongoing effects […]
With the Department for Transport (DfT) having pledged up to £1.9 billion to Transport for London to support London Underground and bus services during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, other transport authorities are now staking their […]
Norther Ireland’s Translink has introduced an extended range of new ‘mLink’ app ticket options as part of its drive towards contactless ticketing. The move reflects a huge growth in demand for contactless payments, particularly during […]
Govia Thameslink Railway has now published details of its revised timetable for Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern services from Sunday 17 May as the railways start to increase services now that the government is urging […]
There may be fewer trains at present, due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, but at least the ones that are running arrive on time. That’s certainly the experience in Scotland. Using the rail industry’s public […]
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