Rail Business

Great Northern’s new Class 717 trains on the Hertfordshire to Moorgate service have already generated enough electricity through their brakes to power the equivalent of all the households of Welwyn and Hatfield Borough for a month, potentially saving more...

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...

Vital rail upgrade works on the Great Eastern main line between Ipswich and London start this month, with work taking place at various points on the line at weekends starting from the 17 October to 22 November. The work includes: The...

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...

Rail travel on the West Coast main line was disrupted on 7 October 2020 after a stretch of signalling, miles long, lost power between Milton Keynes and Watford junction in the early hours of the morning, Network Rail engineers suspected...

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...