Matt Atkins

Intelligent train technology provider Petards Rail has appointed Calvin Fahey to the role of procurement manager. Calvin is Level 3 Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) certified and brings with him almost a decade’s worth of experience within procurement-related...

Network Rail engineers have successfully repaired the embankment as part of a complex operation to recover the railway after a train derailed in Grange-over-Sands on Friday 22 March. The next step is to relay the ballast (railway stones) and track...

Travelling by rail can be up to 80% cheaper on similar routes than flying, eliminating the burden of baggage fees, seat selection charges and airport transfer fees, a new report by Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has found. While in some...

New rules will mean that from 2 April the maximum fee that train operators and ticket retailers can charge when an unused rail ticket is refunded will be reduced from £10 to £5. This reduction follows the Office of Rail...

Public transport links in Cornwall will be transformed thanks to £50 million of government investment to deliver the Mid-Cornwall Metro Scheme. In a visit to Newquay Station on Wednesday 27 March, Transport Secretary Mark Harper met with local leaders including...

Over 95% of Britain’s 10,000 miles of railway will be open for business this Easter - with some exceptions - as Network Rail engineers gear up for a £90 million programme of work over the long weekend aimed at...

East West Railway Company (EWR Co) has announced a series of information events in May to help people understand how the formal application process to build the railway works. Nine information events will be held in May across the whole...

As Control Period 6 (CP6) comes to a close on 31 March, Network Rail is taking a look back at the five-year funding period which started on 1 April 2019. During this time, the rail infrastructure manager has successfully...

Network Rail teams are working to reopen a level crossing in Derbyshire after it was temporarily closed for emergency work following a road traffic collision. The level crossing over the A5132 in Hilton is scheduled to reopen to road traffic...

Work to re-waterproof the surface of Stanway Viaduct on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) and to stabilise the 200-metre-long viaduct parapets, under which a mortar joint was unexpectedly found to have failed, has been completed. The track has been...