Arriva Trains Wales is pleased to announce that it will re-launch its Club 55 offer as of Monday 6 September.  Club55 allows anyone over the age of 55 to travel anywhere on the Arriva Trains Wales network for just £15 return. The offer will run until 11 December 2010. Passengers with...

Chiltern Railway's bubble car, which runs between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough, celebrated its 50th birthday on Saturday. To mark the occasion Chiltern organised a local jazz band, face painting and a raffle at Aylesbury station.  Another bubble car is expected to join Chiltern's fleet at the end of October. At preset it...

Eurotunnel saw a significant increase in summer holiday traffic this year, with the number of cars carried on Passenger Shuttles between 01 July and 31 August up by 17% compared to the same time last year. The Passenger Shuttle service, between Folkestone in Kent and Coquelles in the Pas-de-Calais, carried...

With thousands of London Underground workers are due to begin a 24-hour walkout in two waves at 1700 BST and 2100 BST today, the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) have unveiled details of a major effort to help people get to work, and get around the capital. London...

St Pancras International Station is a hub for high speed national and international travel, and for a wide range of domestic rail services. Below ground, two resited Thameslink platforms supply the busy Bedford-Brighton corridor while the adjacent King’s Cross main line station serves the East Coast and its associated routes....

The world of rail transport technology is meeting from 21 to 24 September at an event in Berlin which is a must for this entire sector - InnoTrans 2010. More than 2,200 exhibitors and some 100,000 trade visitors from over 100 countries are expected at this trade fair, the leading...

Efficiency savings not cuts to services - that's the message from rail campaigners who have written to the government explaining how carefully targeted savings in the transport budget could be made without adversely affecting rail passengers. 'Britain's Railways – Much More for Much Less' is produced by the group Railfuture.  The...

East Midlands Trains, part of the Stagecoach Group, has announced it will be sponsoring the UK’s first ever major gathering of entrepreneurs at this September’s MADE Festival in Sheffield. As part of the sponsorship package, East Midlands Trains will be running an ‘Entrepreneurs Express’ between London and Sheffield, to deliver leading...

Frequentis Public Transport, the supplier of voice communication and dispatching systems, is at InnoTrans 2010 to offer insights on how to manage assets and optimise efficiency with the Fixed Terminal System FTS 3020 and Rail Emergency Management (REM). The full integration of voice communication and emergency management functions opens up...

The Palo Alto City Council High Speed Rail (HSR) Committee passed on a 4-0 vote on Thursday, September 2 and have created a draft resolution, entitled: No Confidence in the California High Speed Rail Authority. The City Council originally supported the HSR bond measure passed in 2008, but says it has...

The new Virgin Train's Super Voyager maintenance facility at Polmadie was officially opened yesterday following a naming ceremony carried out by Polmadie based driver Joe Porter. This bespoke Alstom facility allows  preventative maintenance, such as diesel engine health checks, to be carried out on  Super Voyagers without them having to go...