Southeastern Awarded Investors In People Bronze Award Southeastern was today recognised for the continued investment in its employees by the awarding of the Investors in People (IiP) Bronze Award. The award comes on the back of the Southeastern’s best result in the National Passenger Survey, conducted...

Passengers in Gillingham will benefit from easier access to the railway and better facilities after funding was agreed for a significant upgrade of the station. Detailed plans will now be developed for the scheme, which will be funded jointly through the national stations improvement programme and Community Infrastructure Fund and in...

Loxdale Metro stop has had a make over with a difference.  Over the past month and a half offenders made amends for their crimes by clearing the vegetation around the area. Centro joined forces with Travel Midland Metro and Wolverhampton Community Payback after receiving requests from local...

- New cross-party MPs action group formed - A cross-party group of MPs have come together to establish a new all Parliamentary group to promote investment in rail in the North of England that supports economic growth. The new group will initially focus on: ·       New commuter trains for the North (growth in...

National Express East Anglia is providing extra trains between Norwich and Lowestoft for the Lowestoft Seafront Airshow on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 August. In addition to the scheduled services, the extra trains will run at the following times on both days of this year’s Airshow: 09.30,...

On 2nd August the Rail Media Group was invited to travel, along with London Mayor Boris Johnson, on the first air conditioned tube train to enter passenger service. The Metropolitan line unit ran 3 return trips between Wembley Park and Watford and passengers were very impressed with not only the cooler...

Tubeline’s fleet of 29 Electric Engineering Locomotives are getting a refit. Although the team responsible for the redesign decided to stick with trusted vented lead acid batteries, new production techniques and cell design has allowed for a number of improvements – particularly in cab size, battery...

In a historic decision, Greater Manchester’s leaders have given the green light to three Metrolink extensions, which will see the city region’s iconic tram system running to Oldham and Rochdale town centres and to Manchester Airport via Wythenshawe. At a meeting of the Association of Greater...

RAIL UNION RMT has today written to Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) and the Health and Safety Executive demanding assurances that urgent action is being taken on rail safety following notice from the Judge at the Potters Bar Inquest that there is...

The Welsh Highland Heritage Railway opened on 2nd August 1980, and has been carrying passengers ever since on its short line to Pen-y-Mount. Almost half a million people have travelled on the railway in the last three decades, while steam locomotives and vintage carriages...

Direct Rail Services (DRS), the UK’s leading rail freight operator started innovative trials to move freight from the East Coast to the West Coast by using a new type of wagon to enable cross country service to operate with the necessary gauge clearance. These trials are operated using DRS’ Class 66...