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Don Coffey, a train driver from TransPennine Express (TPE) based at Manchester Piccadilly and owner of 'The Best Cab Ride Channel’ on YouTube, unveiled a plaque at Chapel-le-Frith Station on Friday 26 April to commemorate his charity work with...

In a major development for the UK rail supply chain, William Cook Rail Ltd has announced the acquisition of Crowle Wharf Engineers Ltd (CWE). Based in Leeds, William Cook Rail, is an international market leader in the design, manufacture...

Transport for Wales has named two new trains after the home cities of Wrexham Football Club owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. The ‘Philadelphia Robin’ and ‘Vancouver Red Dragon’ were unveiled today by Welsh Government’s First Minister Vaughan Gethin and...

Today the first locomotive in Britain’s principal freight fleet (Class 66s) to be fitted with digital signalling equipment is moving on to dynamic testing on a test track, having successfully progressed through static testing.  DB Cargo locomotive 66039 is the...

More than 800 projects* will take place across Britain’s railway this coming early and late May bank holidays, designed to keep the vast majority of the network open for travel as usual. Unlike the Easter bank holiday, only one day...

From Saturday 4 to Monday 6 May customers are being reminded to check before travelling as buses replace trains across part of Network Rail’s Wessex route. Over the bank holiday weekend Network Rail’s engineers will be removing life-expired track and...

Three Greater Anglia stations (Battlesbridge, Brundall, and Darsham stations) have received a ‘Wildlife Friendly’ accreditation recognising the work of community volunteers to improve biodiversity and support nature. Greater Anglia has partnered with the region’s Wildlife Trusts to formally recognise the...

ScotRail is adding more seats to services between Motherwell and Balloch this Sunday as thousands of people are expected to take part in Glasgow’s biggest ever charity Kiltwalk. A record 14,000 walkers will get their tartan on and take part...

HS2 has released new images of the first completed sections of the landmark viaduct that will bring high speed trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street station The completed sections mark the next step on the programme to build a series...

The first of DB Cargo UK’s regeared Class 66 locomotives went into active service earlier this week at Peak Forest in Derbyshire. The newly-renumbered 66651 (previously 66221) hauled a cargo of premium grade limestone from Tarmac’s Tunstead Quarry near Buxton,...