A number of railway industry people have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list, published on 30 December 2020. Amongst them were GWR managing director Mark Hopwood CBE and three Network Rail employees – […]
With an estimated 6,000 lorry drivers stuck trying to leave the UK due border restrictions, of which roughly 2,000 are waiting on the motorways approaching Dover, Southeastern and Network Rail worked late into the night […]
Every year, the rail industry celebrates Christmas with its own carol service. Hosted by the Transport Benevolent Fund, the Rail Staff Carol Service is traditionally held in London at St Mary’s Somers Town. However, with […]
Andrew Haines, Network Rail chief executive, has been out planting trees as part of the company’s joint effort with national conservation charity The Tree Council to plant more than 80,000 trees and hedgerows across the […]
Network Rail has launched its Biodiversity Action Plan, which lays out how the company intends to protect, manage and enhance the condition of its biodiverse assets over the current five-year Network Rail funding cycle (Control […]
When hearing about animals on the railway, one tends to think about the occasional escaped cow. Indeed, the Polmont accident in Scotland on 30 July 1984, which killed 13 people and injured another 61, was […]
On Wednesday 11 November 2020, the 102nd anniversary of Armistice Day, the iconic Glenfinnan viaduct lit up in ‘poppy’ as a tribute to all those who have lost their lives in defence of the country. […]
Thermal-imaging video, shot from a National Police Air Service (NPAS) helicopter, shows people leaving an illegal rave near Warrington, Cheshire, and spilling onto a live railway line, forcing a passenger train to stop. The footage, […]
A former railway worker who came to Wales as part of the Windrush generation has been speaking of his 31 years working on the railway. 91-year-old Percival Hanniford from Cardiff, who was born in Jamaica, […]
London Waterloo played host to the Armed Forces as the Royal British Legion held a socially-distanced London Poppy Day launch at the station. Armed forces personnel attend alongside volunteers to raise money for the Poppy […]
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