Train Operating Companies

Two new wheelchair-accessible Customer Information Points have entered service at Victoria station. They will serve both the Kent and Sussex sides of the station and feature  desks which are low down, giving accessibility to customers in wheelchairs. They are also...

Chiltern Railways has announced it has appointed Richard Allan as its new managing director. Chiltern, an Arriva company, has recently signed a new agreement with the Department for Transport (DfT) to runs services between London Marylebone and the Midlands, Warwickshire,...

A new charter tackling street homelessness has been drawn up by the UK Government, Network Rail and British Transport Police. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines and British Transport Police assistant chief constable Charlie Doyle signed...

Greater Anglia drivers, conductors, customer service and cleaning staff are now training on the company’s brand-new longer state-of-the-art commuter trains, which are due to start going into passenger service later this year.  The new trains will run from Liverpool Street...

Great Western Railway (GWR) has honoured one of Britain’s last surviving D-Day veterans, Harry Billinge MBE, by naming a train after him.. Now 95, Harry was one of the first soldiers to land on ‘Gold’ beach at 06:30 on 6...

Bombardier Transportation is adding a state-of-the-art e-mobility test and technology centre to its current site in Västerås, Sweden. With growing global market interest in e-mobility solutions and increasing interconnected development in the mobility sector, Bombardier will create an innovation centre...

Network Rail is to hold a public consultation on its plans for Cambridge South station. This will open on 19 October seek comment on the next stage of development for the new station. Building a new station at Cambridge South...

Despite everything that has been going on during the Coronavirus pandemic, VINCI Facilities has been successfully delivering a total FM (facilities management) contract to East Midlands Railway since early in 2020. Under a five year contract worth around £4 million...

With National Customer Service Week taking place on 5-9 October, South Western Railway (SWR) asked its customers and crew to share their favourite examples its staff delivering outstanding customer service. The heart-warming response served as a timely reminder of how...

The design of the trains for lines Paris Métro 15, 16 and 17, which will extend the network out to Île-de-France as part of the Grand Paris Express, has been put on display as part of the Les lignes...