Rail Business

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel between Bristol Temple Meads and Weston-super-Mare, while an important railway junction is refurbished over a nine-day period later this month. Once complete, the track replacement will enable continued safe and reliable...

Northern has helped hundreds of people with autism to access the railway in the last year as part of a scheme with a West Yorkshire charity. The train operator offers free travel on its network to users of the Leeds-based...

Volunteers at Poppleton station have restored two historical memorials to former railway workers and returned them to their former glory. Benches bearing plaques commemorating signalers, who had worked close to the station, had become rotten and worn down over the...

Major upgrade work as part of the Midland Main Line Upgrade project is set to continue in January and February with improvements to be made to overhead line equipment on selected weekends. Network Rail engineers will be working south of...

LNER has been working with budding young entrepreneurs on a project which has the potential to shape the future of rail travel. The LNER Digital team spearheaded an innovation challenge with social enterprise Startup Sherpas, an organisation which provides real-life...

Network Rail has commissioned the signalling system on the new £116 million Levenmouth Rail Link, meaning trains can now use the line. The signalling was successfully tested and brought into use over the weekend of 6-7 January and ScotRail is...

LNER is helping customers get into their stride this New Year by offering free walking maps so people can get their daily steps in while getting to their destination in London. Many of London’s key locations are a simple walk...

Great Western Railway (GWR) is planning to run direct services between Bristol Temple Meads and Oxford for the first time in more than 20 years. In response to growth in demand for leisure travel by train, GWR wants to run...

Northern is now segregating waste products across its operations into 33 different specialist categories. The train operator - which manages 467 of the stations on its network, has five ‘TrainCare Centre’ depots across the region and has support staff in...

Private sector transport operator FirstGroup plc is today (5 January) submitting the first phase of an application for a new open access rail service between London and Sheffield to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). FirstGroup plans to expand...