Rail Business

Network Rail is reminding customers to plan ahead and allow plenty of time as buses replace South Western Railway (SWR), Great Western Railway (GWR), and Southern trains between Southampton Central and Havant, Eastleigh and Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Central...

Passengers travelling on the West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and London are being urged to check their journeys due to disruption following a landslip near Rugby. Through Monday (12 February), one of the two tracks which connect Coventry and...

Transport for Wales (TfW) will reintroduce hourly rail services between Chester and Liverpool via Runcorn, Helsby and Frodsham from Monday 12 February. The step-up in services will increase from 15 to 30 a day in total (15 in each direction)...

Customers are being advised to check before they travel on Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 February as planned strike action by the RMT union is expected to impact London Overground services and some stations. Customers are advised to visit tfl.gov.uk/strikes for...

A new era is set to begin for rail passengers in the West Midlands after West Midlands Railway unveiled its brand new fleet of electric trains. The Class 730 fleet will enter service in the region for the first time...

Greater Anglia (GA) is to fit its Stansted Express trains with tables, in a significant customer-focused upgrade that is scheduled to begin later this year and is due for completion by the end of 2025. The initiative will also...

Innovation led by Great Western Railway could transform the UK’s railway as it powers forward with a FastCharge battery trial designed to help future decarbonisation of branch line services. The FastCharge technology, which has been rigorously developed by specialist engineers...

Rail customers can now take advantage of cheaper ‘Pay As You Go’ fares thanks to the launch of a new contactless tap in, tap out payment service on key routes across South East Wales. Making it faster, easier and cheaper...

The Severn Valley Railway has announced that it has approved the permanent appointment of Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster as managing director of SVR (Holdings) Plc with immediate effect. Gus has been fulfilling the role in an interim capacity since 1 March...

ScotRail’s newest railway station in the Highlands is celebrating its first anniversary this week, with more than 50,000 passenger journeys being made at the Inverness Airport interchange. The £14 million station, constructed by Network Rail and situated between the Highland...