Train Operating Companies

Long-distance train operator CrossCountry has announced the grand totals of funding for local charity, the Cornwall Community Foundation, after a year-long funding period came to an end in April. The £20,000 donation from the business’ Customer and Community Improvement Fund...

A new managing director and chief operating officer have taken the helm at Northern this week. As managing director, Tricia Williams now leads the UK’s second largest train operator, an organisation that makes an annual contribution to the national economy...

South Western Railway (SWR) has released new, unseen photos ahead of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and Queen. The photos provide a behind-the-scenes look as over 5,000 Armed Forces personnel from the Royal Navy,...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has published, for the first time the track access dashboard, an overview of how passenger and freight train operators are using the capacity available across the GB rail network (access rights) and...

TransPennine Express (TPE) is offering full refunds to customers impacted by delays to the opening of Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena. The train operator will also still run its extra late-night service which had been planned to coincide with fans returning...

Rail passengers travelling between Doncaster and Cleethorpes are being urged to check before they travel after a landslip near Scunthorpe station. Network Rail engineers are currently assessing the track at Frodingham after it’s thought a suspected landslip caused trees to...

Rail passengers in Knottingley are being thanked by Network Rail for their patience and understanding during recent disruption to train services as work is completed to repair a landslip in the area. The line between Knottingley and Pontefract Monkhill has...

Passengers travelling on the West Coast main line between Birmingham and London over the early May bank holiday are being urged to check before they travel. Track and drainage improvements are being made which will help to make journeys more...

With less than three months until the start of the summer holidays, Campaign for Better Transport and rail passengers are calling on train companies to change the way they sell advance tickets to encourage more people to travel by...

Cambridge and Peterborough-based teenagers with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) have been shown the ins and outs of train travel by Great Northern and Thameslink. The ‘Try A Train’ event, hosted by station teams from St Neots and Stevenage,...