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 […]
When regional airline Flybe collapsed on Thursday 5 March 2020, the rail industry was quick to rally round and support stranded passengers and crew. The airline, which used the slogan “Faster than road or rail”, […]
Network Rail has issued an update on its repair work on the Gospel Oak to Barking line, brought about by a derailed freight wagon damaging two and a half miles of track just after 06:00 […]
The derailment of a freight train, at slow speed, in the area of Eastleigh station on 28 January 2020 has caused immense disruption to rail traffic, both rail and freight. Six 52-tonne freight wagons came […]
Work to repair the Gospel Oak to Barking line is continuing after a derailed freight wagon caused extensive damage on Thursday 23 January. The damage stretched over two and a half miles of the route, […]
A derailed freight wagon has caused extensive damage to the Gospel Oak to Barking line in northeast London. The damage stretches for two and a half miles and will result in a great deal of […]
Network Rail engineers worked through the night of Thursday 16 January 2020 to reopen the West Coast main line that had been closed earlier in the day when the overhead wires came down at Hest […]
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 […]
First Trenitalia, operator of the new Avanti West Coast rail service that starts on Sunday 8 December and replaces the Virgin Trains franchise that has operated on the West Coast main line for the last […]
Southern Rail and Gatwick Express celebrated a group of 69 trainee and newly qualified train drivers at an event at Fairfield Halls, East Croydon. The most recent recruits brought in to maintain the pool of […]
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