Rail News

Inspirational Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail director Ruth Busby was at Buckingham Palace on Friday to receive her OBE from the Princess Royal. Ruth was recognised in the New Year Honours ‘for services to diversity in the rail...

Brand new trains have been launched on the Ebbw Vale line offering customers a more comfortable and reliable experience. Built in Newport, the Class 197 trains have started to enter service on mainline routes around Wales and the Borders. They will...

Northern says 97% of its passengers are ‘with us’ when it comes to tackling the issue of fare dodgers on its network as it released the annual figures from its Debt Recovery and Prosecutions Unit. The train operator says ticketless...

PB Design, a leading provider of industrial standby power solutions, has announced key changes to its senior leadership team. Effective 1 April, Scott Edsall, the company's former strategy & technical director, has taken on the role of Managing Director. With...

CPC Project Services LLP (CPC) is pleased to announce that it has transferred ownership to its employees, through an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), to become CPC Project Services Ltd. Over the past 12-18 months the shareholders of CPC have considered...

One month on, services are running again on the Furness line between Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. Network Rail engineers have been working around the clock to restore the railway at Grange-over-Sands after a Northern train left the tracks. A void in the...

The Great Central Railway is preparing to submit a planning application for it’s ambitious Reunification scheme. A new image has been released of the urban viaduct section, which will carry the line linking the two separate halves of the...

A high-quality complex of modern office suites situated in the historic city of York is close to achieving full occupancy after Grand Central Rail announced it would be relocating to the premises. Set within York’s famous medieval walls, the 23,091...

A new and interactive training tool is being used to promote level crossing safety on the Tyne and Wear Metro. Nexus, the public body which runs Metro, has installed a mocked-up Metro level crossing at the SafetyWorks teaching centre in...

GB Railfreight (GBRf), has started a new intermodal service connecting Southampton to Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal in the West Midlands. This is the first time that GBRf has run an intermodal service from the UK’s second-largest deep sea...