Rail Business

London North Eastern Railway (LNER) is proud to reveal a new named and full liveried Azuma train as Pride celebrations get underway across the UK this summer. Named ‘Together’, it celebrates LNER’s support of Pride activities on the LNER route...

Craig Harrop has been appointed interim regional director for Northern in the North West. He took over on Monday 29 May, replacing Chris Jackson, who is heading to TransPennine Express as interim managing director. Harrop, who was born in Blackpool and...

Northern has offered a £1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the person police believe targeted one of their trains with air gun pellets last week (Monday 22 May). The incident, which remains under investigation by British...

ScotRail is reminding customers that services between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley via Carstairs will resume on Tuesday, 30 May, following three months of major upgrade works. Engineers from Scotland’s Railway have been working around the clock for the past...

Train services connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge have moved a step closer as East West Railway Company (EWR Co) published its latest proposals for East West Rail (EWR). The EWR update is part of a wider government announcement the...

Kerry Peters has been appointed regional director for Northern in Yorkshire, Humberside and the East Midlands. She takes up her new post at the end of the summer, when the current regional director, Tony Baxter, leaves to become operations director...

Old uniforms no longer needed by Northern staff are set to be shredded and turned into ‘further life products’ such as insulation and sound-boarding as part of a new environmental push by the train operator. End of life uniform will...

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is reminding passengers that from Thursday 1 June, e-scooters, e-unicycles, e-skateboards, and hoverboards will be banned from its network. The decision follows a number of incidents on the UK rail and Tube network where lithium-ion batteries...

New technology, designed to give TransPennine Express (TPE) customers a smoother journey, has pulled into Hull Paragon station. Automatic ticket barriers have been installed at the station during the past few months and began operating on the morning of Monday...

The Department for Transport (DfT) has stated that passengers may lose free access to wi-fi on trains in England as part of government cutbacks, unless rail companies offering the service can justify the costs. The DfT will review whether...