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Apprentices at the Midland Metro Alliance are celebrating a major step forward in their career after reaching the halfway point of their course. Last autumn, the alliance, which is designing and building a number of Metro extensions on behalf of...

The Railway Industry Association (RIA), which represents over 300 rail businesses around the UK, has written an open letter to the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, urging both sides to come together and agree...

Vital rail upgrades are to be carried out at the end of July to extend platforms for new trains and provide power for the Elizabeth Line ahead of the next stage of opening when services from Shenfield will be...

Thousands of rail passengers impacted by an IT error will be reimbursed for the inconvenience they experienced when attempting to claim compensation for a delayed journey. FirstGroup, which runs Avanti West Coast, Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and TransPennine...

The Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, spoke to media from Siemens Traincare Facility, Hornsey, London, ahead of next week’s railway strikes. He appealed to rail unions and workers to not risk the future of the rail industry by striking, but...

Passengers using Britain’s new high speed rail network will enjoy seamless mobile coverage delivering uninterrupted streaming and calls as trains speed through its tunnels, cuttings and open sections. Journeys on HS2 will make the days of hearing refrains familiar to...

The National Railway Museum is set to feature in a new TV series produced by Whitworth Media appearing on More4 this summer. Called “Cleaning Britain’s Greatest Treasures”, the programme will follow the museum’s conservation team as they clean and maintain...

Translink recently welcomed Lord Grimstone, Minister for Investment at the Department for International Trade and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to the Belfast Grand Central Station and Weavers Cross site as work progresses on this key development. The visit...

The Tyne and Wear Metro has become England’s first rail network to have tactile paving on every platform edge, delivering a major accessibility upgrade for blind and partially sighted people.  Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, has...

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is proud to lead the industry when it comes to welcoming people back to rail. New data shows LNER saw the most customers return to its services when compared with pre-pandemic usage than any...