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New modern ticket hall with step-free access opens at Moorgate as part of Elizabeth line improvements
London Underground customers for Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines can use lifts in the new entrance on Moorfields from today (Monday, 5th July)Liverpool Street Elizabeth line station handed over to London Underground ahead of the line opening...
Rail News
“Less busy trains” tool revamp helps rail passengers pick trains with fewer travellers
Greater Anglia is making it easier for rail passengers to find out at a glance which are the least busy trains to travel on.
The company has just improved its “less busy trains” tool on the Greater Anglia website to...
Infrastructure
Network Rail completes track improvements between York and Church Fenton
Weekend work to upgrade the track between York and Church Fenton delivered on timeAround 450 metres of track, sleepers and ballast replaced over two daysA lightning strike late last night caused a signalling fault affecting first trains this morning...
Digital Railway
Keeping the East Coast Digital Programme on track – Further weekend closures on Northern City Line confirmed
Network Rail and Great Northern have confirmed that there will be additional weekend closures of the Northern City Line between Finsbury Park and Moorgate to enable work on the East Coast Digital Programme to remain on track.
Three weekends of...
Metro
Former EasyJet worker starts a new career at Metro
A former EasyJet worker who was made redundant by the budget airline during lockdown has relaunched his career at the Tyne and Wear Metro.
Chris Clements, who worked as cabin crew for seven years, has shrugged of the disappointment of...
Stations
Waiting facilities to be improved at Salhouse station
Train operator Greater Anglia has submitted plans to improve Salhouse railway station in Norfolk.
The plans would see the existing station building demolished and a new waiting shelter installed, with new seating and lighting. Another new waiting shelter would also...
Environment
HS2 announces new landmark as 700,000 trees planted and over 100 new habitats thriving on Phase One of the project
As part of its extensive environmental programme, HS2 has today announced that its contractors have now planted 700,000 trees and created over 100 wildlife sites along the route between the West Midlands and London. The wildlife sites represent...
Rail Business
Freightliner secures government funding for duel-fuel project
Freightliner, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), in partnership with a consortium of specialist suppliers, has been successful in securing government funding to develop a dual-fuel solution for the Class 66 locomotive.
The technology is one of the...
Industry News
Kidbrooke’s new rail station opened by Sir Peter Hendy CBE
A new station building that is part of the Kidbrooke Village development has been officially opened today by Network Rail’s chairman, Sir Peter Hendy, CBE, alongside guests from Berkeley Homes, Southeastern and the local community.
The new station building offers...
Rail Business
Window Seater and Community Rail Network win Innovate UK funding to deliver immersive new in-train passenger experience
Window Seater and Community Rail Network are partnering to build a technology that will draw on local stories from communities around the UK and share them through passenger-facing technologies used by train operators.
Through the First of a Kind 2021 competition, the Department for Transport and...
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One Big Circle achieves prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation
One Big Circle is one of 252 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise....