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South West Trains, working in partnership with Network Rail and Southampton City Council have announced the start of a £3 million scheme to bring passenger improvements to Southampton Central station.  The scheme, which will be...

Simon Holdsworth, a train driver for CrossCountry in Newcastle, has been rewarded for his work in raising money for a cancer charity in the north east. Simon, who lives in Rowlands Gill, won a Platinum Arriva Community ...

Kind-hearted train company CrossCountry has entered the Christmas spirit early this year and donated £1,500 to children’s charity Chicks (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids). The money was raised by CrossCountry staff through events and collections for...

CrossCountry has appointed Helen Waters as the company’s Production Director. Responsible for operations and engineering, Helen joins CrossCountry after recently completing a number of projects with East Midlands Trains and Hitachi on the IEP project (InterCity Express Programme). Helen began her career with...

A Redditch-based youth football team has unveiled their new kit and a new sponsor for the 2010/11 season. Feckenham Juniors Under 11s, who play in the Central Warwickshire Youth League, are now sponsored by CrossCountry trains – one the UK’s most extensive...

Container shipper, DFDS, is one of the first to sign a contract with GBRf and Europorte Channel to haul a mixed goods multi-modal train from Daventry through the Channel Tunnel to France and then on to Novarro in Northern Italy....

Crossrail has submitted its plans containing detailed designs for Bond Street station to Westminster City Council. The new Crossrail station will be integrated with the existing Tube station to form a combined station that will stretch from Hanover Square...

BBMV, an integrated London-based joint venture comprising Balfour Beatty, ALPINE BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction, announces today it has been awarded the £235 million Whitechapel and Liverpool Street Station Tunnels contract, as part of the Crossrail project. Connecting...

Two dozen young boxers from across Britain punched their way to success this weekend at the inaugural No Messin’ Tri-nation boxing competition, organised by Network Rail and supported by the world’s light welter weight champion Amir...

The global leader in de-icing and anti-icing is celebrating after announcing a partnership with one of Europe’s main rail operators which will see one of its products used in Finland. Kilfrost has received its first order of TDIce Plus by...