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Transport for Wales (TfW) is celebrating being recognised as a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The Disability Confident employer scheme from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was created as a movement...

Train operator, Greater Anglia, is launching a series of virtual station tours to help people travel with confidence – which is especially useful for disabled customers wanting to check how accessible their journey is. The tours have been designed to...

The return of the Christmas markets has seen daily passenger numbers at Manchester Piccadilly station return to levels not seen since before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Saturday 20 November 128,591 people passed through the North West’s biggest...

A collection of unique images showing the final Windrush migrants arriving at Waterloo station are to join the National Railway Museum’s permanent collection. The 37 prints taken by photographer Howard Grey, will officially become part of the national collection of more than...

Hitachi announced today that it has agreed to acquire business activities related to Bombardier Transportation’s contribution to the V300 ZEFIRO very high-speed train from Alstom. The transaction is part of Alstom’s commitments to the European Commission in relation to...

Birmingham New Street station’s highly successful Christmas Eve meal for the city’s homeless is returning once again as a take-out service. For the fourth year running Network Rail is teaming up with award-winning Sikh charity Midland Langar Seva Society (MLSS)...

Today HS2 CEO Mark Thurston pushed the button to start HS2’s tunnel boring machine on its one-mile journey under Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire, marking the launch of the first TBM on the Midlands section of HS2. Around 170...

Network Rail teams in Leeds are carrying out essential work to upgrade the track layout this Christmas to bring more reliable services for passengers.  From the early hours of Saturday 25 December as most people are opening their presents, engineers...

Five stations on the Greater Anglia network have become part of a national study aimed at measuring air quality on the railway. Monitoring commenced at Cambridge, Ely, Ipswich, Norwich and Stansted Airport stations this week and will join 100 other...

An extensive programme of testing and commissioning will soon begin on one of the two Stadler- built trains, which made maiden voyages into Canton depot, Cardiff a fortnight ago. The testing stage will be undertaken entirely on the Wales...