Stations

When the Prime Minister stated that those people who can’t successfully work from home – workers in the construction and manufacturing industries for example – should, return to work but avoid public transport so as to maintain social distancing,...

Improvement plans for Brandon station are now to go ahead after Breckland Council has confirmed that Greater Anglia’s redevelopment plans are lawful under permitted development regulations. The train operator has been granted a Certificate of Lawful Use or Development, which...

Four freshly laid goose eggs in a nest. A rare enough site in the wild, but inside a railway station? Taking advantage of the current lockdown, during which the most-visible people in major stations are security guards, a female graylag...

Network Rail has submitted a planning application to East Cambridgeshire District Council for permission to build a new station at Soham, on the Ely to Newmarket line. The application seeks permission to build the station following the announcement in September...

As talk continues about reopening Britain’s economy, which will need transport measures in place to get factory and office workers into and out of work every day, the leaders of Britain's three main rail unions - ASLEF, RMT and...

Amanda White, former head of rail with Transport for Greater Manchester, has appointed to be West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE)’s new interim programme director, to work on the development of railway stations in the West Midlands. She joins the WMRE...

This week, it was the turn of Network Rail’s Bristol Temple Meads station to be lit up in blue to show solidarity with front-line NHS staff and key workers across the country. To coincide with the national show of appreciation...

Refurbishment of a historic railway footbridge has been completed at New Mills Newtown station in the Derbyshire Peak District. The stairs and overbridge were strengthened and the 157-year-old steel structure has been grit blasted and fully repainted. The Grade-II listed...

Three key Network Rail stations have turned blue to show their support for the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic. To coincide with the weekly tribute to NHS, care staff, health professionals and other key workers, the Network Rail managed stations...

While rail travel has been cut back to key workers only, and everyone else is working from home, where does that leave the thousands of season-ticket holders who have spent a lot of money on them? Because of this, independent...