Crime

The University of Birmingham’s Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with rail cyber security company, RazorSecure, establishing a strategic partnership on addressing railway system cyber security. The signing took place at...

Northern has armed its conductors and revenue protection staff with new technology to better defend the train operator against one of the most common excuses given by fare-evaders’ for travelling without a ticket. “The ticket machine wasn’t working” is often...

Railway service provider addresses long-standing fraud types with Contextual Decision Intelligence. 17 June, London, UK. Quantexa, the data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), announced today that it has partnered with leading UK rail firm Govia Thameslink Railway...

Railway lines into London Euston station plagued by graffiti have been cleaned up for residents and passengers. Special teams from Network Rail and HS2 have cleared graffiti hotspots in Harlesden, Queens Park, Wembley Central and Euston so far in 2021. The...

Offensive graffiti on a recently replaced railway footbridge in Liverpool has been removed in a continued blitz against rail network vandalism across the North West. A special Network Rail clean-up team quickly got to work on Mossley Hill footbridge after...

When Belly Mujinga, a ticket office worker with Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) Southern at London Victoria station, died of coronavirus in April after being spat at on the station concourse, he colleagues and her union were up in arms. She...

The British Transport Police will start an immediate roll-out of body worn cameras to its frontline officers to bring about "speedier justice for victims."

The British Transport Police has announced that trained firearm officers are to start patrolling onboard trains following the UK's increased terror threat level to critical. Armed officers have been patrolling the London Underground since December but this will mark the first...

Members of the public should expect to see more police patrolling Britain’s railway stations following the bomb attack in Manchester on Monday night. British Transport Police (BTP) will be deploying ‘more officers than usual’ – including armed personnel – on...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is to invest 40 million euros in improving CCTV systems across the German rail network. The new cameras will improve coverage at some of the country's key stations. There are currently 4,800 cameras at around 640 stations around...