Rail Business

With live events cancelled due to the covid pandemic, YRP moved its annual awards online. Every year, YRP hosts a dazzling black-tie dinner and awards ceremony to showcase and celebrate the achievements of young professionals working throughout the industry, as...

Construction firms involved in the building of HS2, including Network Rail, have set out long-term plans so people in seven London boroughs will benefit from the project. Network Rail has joined the others already in the scheme, made up of...

HS2 is helping to support students who have deferred their university place due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by offering them work experience. To help students who had planned to study this year, but were offered a deferred...

Greater Anglia, which is commissioning three new fleets of trains (Classes 720, 745 and 755) has taken steps to keep them in tip-top condition by installing a new carriage washer machine at its Crown Point depot in Norwich. The new...

A new fifth platform has been constructed at Stevenage station as part of the Stevenage Turnback project. This will allow services from Stevenage to run to London Moorgate, assist with commuter services from Hertford on the East Coast main line...

The Department for Transport has announced that the annual fare increase will be delayed until 1 March 2021, when regulated fares will then increase by 2.6%, calculated, as always, as being RPI+1. As a result of the delay, key workers,...

The 36 Class 802 trains operated on the Great Western main line by GWR may soon be running on battery power, after an exclusive agreement has been signed Hitachi Rail and Eversholt Rail. With their sleek design, Hitachi’s trains have...

COVID-19 challenged the whole rail industry to keep on working, despite the difficulties. Recruitment consultancies such as Advance TRS were no exception. At the beginning of January 2020, nobody could have imagined the challenges that the year ahead would bring....

A different way of thinking is transforming the fortunes of Northern Trains, where new possibilities are taking shape by bringing together a diverse range of talents. Ten weeks into his new role as Director of Engineering at Northern Trains, Jack...

Network Rail and contractor AmcoGiffen are repairing a railway embankment near the seaside town of Whitby to protect the railway from landslips. The embankment, which is on the west bank of the Esk and to the south of the A171...