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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds

New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge when an unused rail ticket is refunded will be reduced from £10 to £5. This reduction follows the Office of Rail...

Cornwall public transport gets £50 million boost

Public transport links in Cornwall will be transformed thanks to £50 million of government investment to deliver the Mid-Cornwall Metro Scheme. In a visit to Newquay Station on Wednesday 27 March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper met with local leaders including...

Network Rail engineers prepare for £90 million investment over Easter bank holiday

Over 95% of Britain’s 10,000 miles of railway will be open for business this Easter - with some exceptions - as Network Rail engineers gear up for a £90 million programme of work over the long weekend aimed at...

East West Rail to hold drop-in events ahead of statutory consultation

East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has announced a series of information events in May to help people understand how the formal application process to build the railway works. Nine information events will be held in May across the whole...

Andrew Haines looks back on five years of CP6

As Control Period 6 (CP6) comes to a close on 31 March, Network Rail is taking a look back at the five-year funding period which started on 1 April 2019. During this time, the rail infrastructure manager has successfully...

Hilton level crossing to reopen following emergency repairs

Network Rail teams are working to reopen a level crossing in Derbyshire after it was temporarily closed for emergency work following a road traffic collision. The level crossing over the A5132 in Hilton is scheduled to reopen to road traffic...

Phase 1 of Stanway Viaduct repair complete

Work to re-waterproof the surface of Stanway Viaduct on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) and to stabilise the 200-metre-long viaduct parapets, under which a mortar joint was unexpectedly found to have failed, has been completed. The track has been...

RAIB report: derailment of a tram at Bulwell

RAIB has released its report into a Derailment of a tram at Bulwell, Nottingham, on 12 June 2023. At around 17:06 hrs on 12 June 2023, a southbound tram, travelling at around 41 km/h (25 mph), approached a set of...

ScotRail trains cross iconic Forth Bridge in new Train Sim game

Only the lucky few get to drive trains across the iconic Forth Bridge in real life, but players of Train Sim World 4 will get that chance soon, when the Fife circle route from Edinburgh is released on 26...

GTR launches poetry competition to get kids’ imaginations back on track

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has launched a national poetry competition in partnership with Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho. Open for six weeks, the competition aims to encourage children’s creativity and reduce screen time by tasking young people to write a short...

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ORR review leads to 50% reduction in maximum fees for ticket refunds

New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge...