Rail Business

The previously mothballed rail line, which runs between Okehampton and Exeter, was restored in just nine months and delivered £10m under budget, opening two years ago to the day today. Since then, more than 550,000 passenger journeys have been...

A new look Gatwick Airport station has today (Tuesday 21 November) opened to passengers, transforming the journey from train to plane and giving passengers travelling between Brighton and London easier, faster, more reliable journeys. The bigger, better, and brighter station...

Community rail projects have been given the go-ahead thanks to funding from West Midlands Railway (WMR). Grants of up to £10,000 were made available through the latest round of WMR’s “Your Community, Your Fund” scheme, funded by the Department for...

Churches and other community hubs in rural Lancashire and Cheshire are prepared for the worst of the winter weather thanks to Railway Mission and Avanti West Coast. Railway Mission, a Christian faith-based charity that provides the chaplaincy service to the...

Passengers in Liverpool could soon benefit from a simpler, more affordable, and integrated transport network thanks to an agreement signed by Transport Secretary Mark Harper and Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram today (Thursday 16 November). The Memorandum of Understanding commits to...

TransPennine Express (TPE) has unveiled a newly wrapped train ahead of International Men’s Day reminding customers that it’s okay to talk. TPE has worked with Andy’s Man Club, the men’s suicide prevention charity, to wrap the Class 185 train that...

The Department for Transport (DfT) is building on its promise of building a brand-new railway station in Bradford by providing £400,000 for the local authority to kickstart master planning on the project. The work will consider how the new station...

London Northwestern Railway (LNR) has today (Monday 13 November) introduced the first of its Class 730 electric train fleet into passenger service on the West Coast Main Line. The first service was this morning’s 6.04am departure from Bletchley to London...

Train services on the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Bletchley will resume on Monday 20 November, operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) has confirmed today (Fri 10 November). The line has been served by rail replacement buses since December 2022...

More people are now travelling with Hull Trains than they did before the pandemic with the operator reporting the strongest recovery in UK journey levels. Not only has the operator recovered its passenger numbers to pre-pandemic levels, but it has...