The upgrade of the signalling system in the Shrewsbury area will now enable trains from the Hereford and Cambrian lines to travel via platform 3.  The enhanced capability will help ease congestion on the line, bringing a more reliable service to passengers.  It also spells an opportunity for more trains to...

Alliance Rail Holdings was founded in 2009 and is seeking to introduce new rail services through its subsidiary companies, Great North Western Railway (GNWR), and Great North Eastern Railway (GNER), on the West Coast and East Coast Main Lines and across the Pennines. Alliance Rail Holdings (Alliance) is pleased to announce...

National Express train companies National Express East Anglia (NXEA) and c2c are working in partnership with Network Rail to improve customer facilities at seven Essex rail stations with funding from the Department for Transport’s National Stations Improvement Programme (NSIP). The Essex stations to be upgraded through this Programme are: NXEA stations at...

Neville Royce, from Bicester who works at Chiltern Railways celebrated 40 years working on the railway on Tuesday, 10 August.  To mark this achievement there was a surprise presentation for him attended by his family and colleagues.   Adrian Shooter CBE presented him with a certificate, an engraved whistle and a model bubble car. ...

RailCorp CE Rob Mason today welcomed the decision by the combined rail unions to suspend further industrial action while the two parties negotiate an agreement. “Today’s announcement means that all planned industrial action including Monday and Friday of next week will no longer go ahead,” Mr Mason said. “This is a welcome...

More than 400,000 passengers travel on Gautrain during the Soccer World Cup All predictions of ridership of Bombardier’s Gautrain have been greatly exceeded during the system’s first month of operations whilst the World Cup was in full swing. While the eyes of the world were on South Africa, a staggering 400,000...

All aboard for the best party ever! Thomas the Tank Engine is chugging into MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry), Liverpool Road, Manchester, for the first time ever for a Day Out With ThomasTM from Thursday 2 September to Sunday 5 September 2010 inclusive.  All Thomas fans are invited to...

Rail depot equipment specialist, Mechan, is on target to double its export turnover this year. In the last month alone, the Sheffield-based manufacturer has taken orders from as far afield as France, Taiwan and New Zealand, worth in excess of £600,000. Mechan’s order from Bombardier in France is its first installation in...

Seven First Great Western routes have been named in a report of the top 10 branchlines to see the most significant passenger growth over the past year. All six lines to seaside resorts in Devon and Cornwall as well as the Severn Beach Line featured, with the Atlantic Coast Line from...

The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is aiming to change 728 rotten wooden sleepers in the next 3 weeks in order that the line, that runs between Wirksworth and Duffield, is ready for inspection by HM Railway Inspectorate.  This inspection is carried out for free, but after September the responsibility will pass to...

The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Arriva by Deutsche Bahn on condition that DB divests all of Arriva's German activities. Having investigated the rail and bus markets in Denmark, Germany and the UK, the EU was concerned that competition could be reduced should DB have not agreed to divest...