General Interest
Take a ride on the GWR Brain Train from the safety of home
Train operator Great Western Railway has devised another set of brain-teasing questions to help home-schooling parents keep their children educated and #enterTrained.
Youngsters are being encouraged to take a ride on the GWR Brain Train and test their knowledge of...
General Interest
Passengers to benefit from railway drainage improvements in Trafford
Passenger journeys are being made more reliable with railway drainage upgrade work underway in Greater Manchester.
A £1.3m Great North Rail Project investment will see a new pumping station installed in Timperley and 300 metres of new track drainage installed to...
Industry News
Passengers set for longer platforms, new footbridge and step free access in £31million Feltham station upgrade
£31million Feltham station upgrade completed with extended platforms, new pedestrian and cycle bridge and step-free entranceClosure of Feltham West level crossing has enhanced the safety of local community£375 million project to replace older signalling by 2024 continues, improving reliability...
Industry News
Passengers set for longer platforms, new footbridge and step free access in £31million Feltham station upgrade
£31million Feltham station upgrade completed with extended platforms, new pedestrian and cycle bridge and step-free entranceClosure of Feltham West level crossing has enhanced the safety of local community£375 million project to replace older signalling by 2024 continues, improving reliability...
Industry News
Fleet performance celebrated by Transport for Wales
Transport for Wales is delighted to confirm that it has hit fleet availability targets every day for more than a year.
In what has been one of the most turbulent years on record, the consistent approach in which enough trains...
Company News
Great Western Railway provides extra trains to help vaccine roll-out
Great Western Railway is providing 17 extra trains a day to Newbury Racecourse to help with the roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine.
The additional station stops on trains between Paddington and Bedwyn are intended to help those travelling to the...
Industry News
Major improvements on scenic Esk Valley line as Network Rail upgrades 1940’s track
Network Rail is upgrading sections of track on the Esk Valley line, which date back to the 1940’s, to bring smoother journeys for passengers travelling between Middlesbrough and Whitby.
Between Friday 12 and Sunday 21 February, teams will be lifting...
General Interest
Amersham becomes London’s 81st step-free Underground station
Lifts installed at a northern terminus on the Metropolitan line allow step-free access from street to trainWork continues to improve accessibility across the TfL network and add to the existing 200-plus step-free stationsNew data available to support step free...
Industry News
More reliable journeys after major £1.4m Merseyside railway upgrade
Passengers and motorists are benefiting from work to refurbish a major railway bridge in St Helens.
The £1.4m Network Rail investment as part of the Great North Rail Project has seen the railway bridge spanning Rainford Bypass (A570) refurbished and...
Industry News
Rail industry collaborates to operate temporary timetable while essential repairs are carried out on West Coast Main Line
Extra stops added to Avanti West Coast services along the Trent Valley, as railway operators join forces to introduce a new temporary timetable while Network Rail engineers work to repair damage to track caused by a landslip.
New timetable introduced...
Latest News
Unseen photos from the Coronation released by SWR for the first anniversary
South Western Railway (SWR) has released new, unseen photos ahead of the first anniversary of the Coronation of Their...