East Midlands Trains have launched their new on board Passenger WiFi service. The new service is now available on all 6 of the 7-car Meridian units and over the coming months, will be rolled out across all Meridians (27 units) and MKIII HSTs (11 units) covering journeys on the London-Sheffield...

Nearly 40 per cent of Tube trains in operation. Services operating on all but one Tube line, although disruption possible. Good service running across the bus, Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London Overground and tram networks. Passengers should check before travelling at www.tfl.gov.uk Nearly forty per cent of London's Tube trains are operating this...

London Underground (LU) has given unions assurances that they seek on no compulsory redundancies and safe staffing levels. LU remains ready to talk at any time. LU has today called on the leaderships of the RMT and TSSA unions to call off their threatened strike action and return...

Tube union RMT said this morning that a strike of Alstom tube maintenance staff on the Jubilee and Northern Line's that began at 19.00 last night is rock solid. Pickets have been out in force at all three Alstom tube maintenance depots. RMT has received reports this morning of disruption and...

RMT today accused London Underground of “playing fast and loose” with safety in the run up to strike action starting later today as the union revealed that tube management have issued a call volunteers to try and run services regardless of whether they have the necessary Operational Licences. In a circular...

Confidence levels among businesses in the transport & storage sector increased in Q3 2010 while the outlook across the whole economy weakened, states the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM). According to BCM, which tracks the confidence levels of UK finance and business professionals, in Q3 2010, 65% of...

The CBI has commented on the London Underground strike scheduled to hit the tube network from 5.00pm today (Monday) and last 24 hours. John Cridland, CBI Deputy Director-General, said: “It is disappointing that the RMT and TSSA have decided to go ahead with this strike, which will disrupt London at work. It...

CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Co., Ltd, a Chinese rolling stock manufacturer within China Southern Rolling stock group contacted MBD DESIGN to conduct a design study on Mumbai metro Line 1. It is the first metro train to be built in China for the Indian market and the first Chinese export...

 The Severn Valley Railway carried 43,000 passengers in August, the best figure for the month in the heritage line's history. One of the main attractions during the month was the railway's seaside special weekend which saw 6,000 visitors flock to the railway to enjoy the beach at Arley station along with...

From today Russian Railways is introducing new Sapsan train services on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod-Moscow route to provide morning passenger transport from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod and increase service level quality. Sapsan trains will run: - № 167 Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) – Moscow-Kurskaya; departure time: 06:45, arrival time 10:40. The train will...

On September 23 2010, a train of the Federal Passenger Company formation will begin to run regularly on the Moscow – Nice route. The No. 17/18 Moscow – Nice train will begin running once a week. It will leave Moscow (Belorusky Station) on Thursdays at 16:17 and arrive in Nice on...