Jonathan Webb

Meridians at Derby station. Picture: Jonathan Webb East Midlands Trains has launched a brand new initiative designed to cut fuel consumption and reduce enough carbon to take the equivalent of 705 cars a year off the road. The new...

National Express East Anglia is providing extra train services for the ‘V Festival’ 2010. Festival-goers travelling to the ‘V Festival’ in Chelmsford, on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 August are being encouraged to choose the ‘green’ travel option and use...

A public open weekend will be held at the Coventry Electric Railway Centre site on Rowley Road, Baginton on the weekend of Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th of September 2010.  Visitors will be able to view an extensive...

Twice as many passengers and a doubling of freight by 2035 is predicted in a new document published today, looking at long term planning for the rail industry, 'Planning Ahead'. With our roads getting more congested and the need to...

With around half of its 75 guards due to retire over the next 10-15 years the Severn Valley Railway is launching a recruitment drive to attract up to 100 volunteers to replace them and avoid a staffing crisis. Although 75...

  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...

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...

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...

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...

Virgin Trains says it has no knowledge of plans to operate a Pendolino along the East Coast Main Line. The train operator, which is seeking an extension to its West Coast franchise, says that it plans to run the first...