Rail Business

ScotRail’s newest railway station in the Highlands is celebrating its first anniversary this week, with more than 50,000 passenger journeys being made at the Inverness Airport interchange. The £14 million station, constructed by Network Rail and situated between the Highland...

Northern has appointed Jason Wade as its new regional director for the North East. Jason is currently the train operator's head of retail operations and will have a phased transition into his new role while a replacement is recruited. In the...

Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week (5-11 February), Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has revealed a sharp increase in the number of females starting an apprenticeship. GTR welcomed a total of 176 new starters in 2023, with 60 of these coming...

Northern has appointed an accessibility campaigner to chair its independent user group which focuses on empowering people to use public transport – no matter their circumstances. New chair Mark Cutter, from Lancaster, has been a member of Northern’s Accessibility User...

Deaf customers who travel with East Midlands Railway (EMR) will be able to get help to communicate with railway staff after the operator signed up to a new British Sign Language service. The service, which is being operated by InterpretersLive,...

The trade union Unite has secured increased pay for workers at Hitachi trains working on Great Western Railways (GWR), resolving an industrial dispute. However, Hitachi engineers, repairs, and maintenance crews at LNER remain on strike though as Hitachi has...

Trains in the Tooting, Crystal Palace, Tulse Hill and Peckham Rye areas will now run as normal from Monday 12 through to Friday 16 February. The switch-on of a new signalling system in South London, which was due to close...

Network Rail will be carrying out major upgrades to the railway between Beverley and Hunmanby in February. From Saturday 3 February to Sunday 11 February, engineers will be working in various areas between the two stations as they install new...

Network Rail, LNER, and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are collaborating to improve mobile connectivity on the East Coast Main Line. The joint project, which is delivering new mobile phone infrastructure into tunnels outside London King’s Cross station, has reached an...

TransPennine Express (TPE) is urging customers to plan ahead, with further industrial action and strike days set to cause major disruption to rail services from next week. Drivers from the ASLEF union are set to take strike action between 30...