The first Greater Anglia Class 720 train arrived at its new owner’s Ilford depot on Tuesday 14 January 2020. 111 trains are being built by Bombardier in Derby. About one third of the carriages for […]
The first new Merseyrail train has now arrived the Kirkdale depot in Liverpool. It will be prepared and checked before commencing trial runs on the network. Manufactured by Stadler in Switzerland, the new Class 777 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Govia Thameslink Railway sock collectors took in more than 4,170 pairs of socks on Thursday 5 December as GTR joined forces with selected homeless charities joined forces to give those sleeping rough a new pair […]
Avanti West Coast has taken over operation of the InterCity West Coast rail franchise, replacing Virgin Trains which leaves the UK rail market after 22 years as one of its leading operators. Operating company West […]
The fleet of 25 AGV trains operated in Italy by NTV (Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) under the Italo brand has now completed 100 million kilometres since entering service in April 2012. The AGV very-high-speed trains run […]
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 […]
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