According to figures released on International Women’s Day (8 March 2020), there are now more female train drivers on Scotland’s Railway than ever before. The number of female train drivers has increased by 39 per […]
The first of 52 new trains for Merseyrail has been unveiled in Liverpool by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram. The Class 777 trains, which are being built by Stadler of Switzerland, will be publicly owned by […]
Veterans will get their own railcard from 11 November 2020, which will extend discounted train travel to the more than 830,000 veterans not covered by existing schemes. Secretary of State Grant Shapps announced that the […]
Julian Edwards, the interim managing director of East Midlands Railway for the first few months of its new franchise, has been named as the new managing director of West Midlands Trains (WMT). With over 20 […]
The first four refurbished Class 442 trains have finally re-entered service on the South Western Railway network, running on the London to Portsmouth route via Guildford, Haslemere and Petersfield and on the London to Poole […]
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 […]
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