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Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
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New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales

31 July 2025 Rail Insider 0

Transport for Wales has brought five more new Class 756 trains into service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth, improving the passenger experience on this route. The tri-mode trains (diesel/25kV overhead/battery) are variants of the Flirt […]

Comms Design and Transport for Wales will trial Request to Stop at two Welsh stations.
Business

Unipart’s Comms Design to trial Request to Stop with Transport for Wales

23 July 2024 Rail Insider 0

Comms Design, a Unipart company that specialises in digital signalling and communication equipment, is preparing, alongside Transport for Wales, to trial a digital signalling system that will enhance passenger experience and optimise train operations on […]

Wales' first tram trains are now at their new depot at Taff's Well
Buildings

First Tram Trains for South Wales Metro unveiled

31 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

The first of a fleet of electric tram trains that are destined to revolutionise transport across the South Wales valleys have been unveiled at their new £100 million depot at Taff’s Well.  The light rail […]

Business

Network Rail and Natural Resources Wales work together to secure a greener future

26 July 2023 Rail Insider 0

Network Rail has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding with Natural Resource Wales that commits both organisations to work together to drive environmental sustainability for the benefit of communities, create a more resilient railway by being […]

Infrastructure

Ebbw Vale line reopens following latest stage of multi-million-pound transformation

16 June 2023 Rail Insider 0

The Ebbw Vale line has reopened between Cardiff Central and Ebbw Vale Town after a 19-day closure during which Network Rail engineers, together with contractors from Amco Giffen, Siemens and others worked on the construction […]

Community

New face covering helps with lipreading

22 December 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Transport for Wales (TfW) is adopting a new design of face covering to assist customers who need to see lips moving to help them understand. The new face coverings, which are bring provided for front […]

Infrastructure

South Wales Metro work to continue in January

18 December 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Transport for Wales (TfW) is taking advantage of the expected low numbers of travellers due to COVID-19 to deliver a major piece of infrastructure work. Buses will replace trains for all rail services north of […]

Appointments

New Community Rail Officer for Conwy Valley

13 November 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

Karen Williams has been appointed as the new community rail officer for the Conwy Valley in North Wales. She will work for the Conwy Valley Railway Partnership and will engage with communities across the valley […]

Events

Windrush railway worker recalls 31 years on the railway

30 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 0

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, […]

Infrastructure

Barmouth viaduct restoration extended to take advantage of lockdown

28 October 2020 Nigel Wordsworth 1

Network Rail’s £25 million restoration of the Barmouth viaduct is to be accelerated by extending works for an additional 48 hours during Wales’ firebreak lockdown. Over 150 years old, the viaduct is now in poor […]

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  • Tamara Finkelstein to be CEO of Royal Academy of Engineering
  • Battery train sets new world record
  • Paul McNerney to join Severfield from Laing O’Rourke
  • Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
  • Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
  • Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
  • EMR driver training is a family affair
  • Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
  • New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
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  • Phil Mortimer: A recent funded R&D project focused on the use of alternatives to steel for the ohl masts. This has several…
  • Nigel: Fully support this restoration from the East Lancashire side,existing infrastructure mostly well built and promises a highly efficient 12 mile…
  • Clive Broadhead: After the undoubtedly achievement of resurrecting the railways in Scotland why are the current NR management he'll bent on squandering…
  • Dame Tamara Finkelstein will take over as chief executive of the Royal Academy of Engineering in February 2026.
  • 230001 sets out on its record-breaking run from Reading station.
  • Paul McNerney will leave Laing O'Rourke to take over as CEO of Severfield in the autumn of 2025.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
  • Mick Rayner, managing director of Balfour Beatty's rail business, is joining the RSSB Board as non-executive director representing infrastructure contractors.
    Mick Rayner appointed Non-Executive Director of RSSB
    12 August 2025 0
  • Impression of how Stuttgart station will look on completion.
    Deutsche Bahn needs to find €6.5 billion to complete Stuttgart 21
    7 August 2025 0
  • Robin Gisby will step down from being CEO of the DfT Operator on 23 December 2025.
    Robin Gisby to step down as the government’s train operator
    7 August 2025 0
  • 12 trainees drivers have just graduated at East Midlands Railway.
    EMR driver training is a family affair
    7 August 2025 0
  • Hitachi Rail's acquisition of Omnicom will support its HMAX digital asset management platform globally.
    Hitachi Rail completes acquisition of Omnicom from Balfour Beatty
    1 August 2025 0
  • Cumbrian Coast line closed at Whitehaven “indefinitely”
    31 July 2025 0
  • Five new Class 756 Flirt trains have entered service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth.
    New trains enter service on the Coryton line in South Wales
    31 July 2025 0
  • Unipart has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing its roadmap to meeting its Net Zero 2040 target.
    Unipart publishes roadmap to its Net Zero 2040 target
    30 July 2025 0
  • Arriva will restore train connections to communities in Poland’s Kujawsko-Pomorskie region from December 2026.
    Arriva to revive two regional routes in Poland
    30 July 2025 0
  • Tony Lodge of the Centre for Policy Studies has written a report entitled Rail’s Last Chance: A four-point plan to save the railways
    Warning that Great British Railways risks repeating the mistakes of British Rail
    29 July 2025 0
  • Rocket arrives at National Railway Museum
    14 September 2019 0
  • Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens remembered in mural
    12 July 2020 0
  • Assessing railway assets and structures
    28 January 2021 0
  • Go-Ahead Bavaria good to go
    20 August 2020 0
  • South Wales Metro Infrastructure Hub opens
    8 January 2020 0
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