Rail News

Metro customers are getting their first chance to see the new trains out on the system as daytime testing gets underway – marking a new major milestone for the £362m programme. Nexus, the public body which runs Metro, said this...

Siemens Mobility in a joint consortium with Bilfinger UK has been awarded an eleven-year contract extension for the maintenance of Edinburgh Trams infrastructure to 2035. This includes the continuous maintenance of the overhead contact line system, the track, SCADA...

Trainline Partner Solutions, the B2B arm of Trainline, has appointed Alice Coverlizza as vice-president to lead the business. Trainline is Europe’s leading independent rail platform, and through Trainline Partner Solutions (TPS) it provides partners with access to its Platform One...

Rail industry bodies have responded to the National Infrastructure Commission’s annual review, published today (16 May). The review calls for a new long-term plan for rail with a steady delivery pipeline, and includes new analysis of the railway network in...

Efforts to open up more careers in the rail sector to young people could improve the reliability of rail services under a new proposal being put forward today (Thursday 16 May). If agreed, new regulations lowering the minimum age for...

Alstom has signed an £8.8 million contract with passenger operator c2c for the paint and repair of its Class 357 Electrostar fleet. The contract will involve 74 four-car units, initially built at Alstom’s Derby Litchurch Lane site between 1999 and...

British Steel has won a multi-million-pound contract to supply rail for a new high-speed electricrailway in Turkey. The manufacturer will deliver tens of thousands of tonnes of track for the project connecting Mersin withthe cities of Adana, Osmaniye and Gaziantep...

Rail Minister Huw Merriman joined fellow MPs and peers to hear how RSSB’s research is verifying the social value of the Railway Mission’s work, which generates over £3 of value for every £1 of income the charity receives. The West...

Transport for London (TfL) is celebrating 25 years since the Jubilee line extension was completed with special anniversary posters along the line. The major engineering project connected the West End to the rapidly developing Docklands in the late 1990s,...

All Elizabeth line stations now have 4G mobile coverage as the Mayor and TfL’s programme to improve connectivity for those travelling underground continues. Paddington, Canary Wharf, Whitechapel and Woolwich stations all recently gained 4G mobile coverage - meaning that all...