Rail News

Jobseekers living near the HS2 route will benefit from 1,000 new training opportunities from this week thanks to funding secured by one of the project’s key subcontractors. More than 600 people have already passed through the three dedicated plant training...

With a £2.6 billion, five-year funding package for Control Period 7 (CP7), Network Rail’s Anglia route is today (3 April 2024), embarking on a rail improvement plan aimed at delivering a simpler, better, greener railway that provides the best...

For some, the train is merely a form of public transport allowing them to commute into the cities or move around the country. Almost 1.5 billion passenger journeys were recorded last year in the period up to September 2023....

Groundbreaking hybrid battery train evolves to serve the intercity market in Southern Italy New intercity hybrid battery train will enter service in Southern Italy this summer Hitachi Rail will deliver seven intercity hybrid battery trains for Trenitalia as part of a...

Temporary service changes will be introduced on Metrolink this weekend following the discovery of a cracked rail in Manchester city centre. A 10-metre section of rail on Portland Street will be replaced between 5pm on Saturday 6th April and 5am...

£27m is to be spent by Network Rail to improve drainage on the East Midlands’ rail network, helping to prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain. Over the past year, there have been multiple incidents of...

British Steel has won a multi-million-pound contract to supply rail for a landmark new route in North Africa. In total, 9,500 tonnes of track, produced in Scunthorpe, will be delivered for Egypt’s Green Line railway – the country’s first fully...

Network Rail today announced the start of its five-year, £45.4bn* rail improvement plan aimed at delivering a simpler, better, greener railway that provides the best level of train performance possible and that’s more geared-up than ever before to cope...

UK railway engineering company 1stinrail has completed extensive track replacement work on the Keadby Drawbridge, the unique structure crossing the Stainforth and Keadby Canal that connects Doncaster with Scunthorpe and the Lincolnshire coast. 1stinrail Project Manager Ryan Hughes said: “This was a fascinating project...

Porterbrook, the UK’s leading rolling stock financier and asset management company, has successfully bid to finance the redevelopment of Bletchley depot for West Midlands Trains (WMT). Situated near Milton Keynes, the £66m upgrade programme is necessary for Bletchley to become...