Train Operating Companies

Claire Mann has been appointed managing director of South Western Railway (SWR), to start early in 2021. With more than two decades of experience in the transport sector, Claire has held a number of senior leadership roles in the rail...

An old and forgotten fountain, 8.5 metres deep, has been uncovered during excavation works in Flood Street car park, Dudley, during preparatory works prior to the extension of the West Midlands Metro across Wednesbury and Brierley Hill. This is not...

A Network Rail worker has died in an accident at the Eastleigh Long Welded Rail Depot near Southampton on the afternoon of Monday 30 November. Initial reports indicate that the worker was carrying out plant maintenance and died as a...

Hull Trains will resume services from 3 December as the open access operator reintroduces a limited timetable in time for the Christmas period and student travel window after a temporary pause. Hull Trains’ services were temporarily suspended for the second...

The Mayor of London, Transport for London (TfL), the Department for Transport (DfT) and HM Treasury have confirmed an agreed Funding and financing for the final phase of the Crossrail project has been agreed by the Mayor of London, Transport...

The fee paid to Network Rail by a television production company  for being allowed to film at York station has been donated to the Railway Children charity. The cast of Gentleman Jack, which airs on BBC One, have been busy...

To celebrate St Andrew’s Day, London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has released a new design of face mask, this one featuring a unique hand-illustrated stag to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. The new design is the sixth addition to the already...

Greater Anglia ran its new Bombardier Class 720 trains in passenger service for the first time on Thursday 26 November 2020. Two of the new five-car trains were used coupled together to form ten carriages for the 16:10 service to...

Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has announced £1.2 million of new government funding to accelerate feasibility work for digital signalling on vital sections of the West Coast main line, Midland main line and East Anglia route, including Peterborough to Kings...

Train operator TransPennine Express (TPE) has donated tens of thousands of pounds from its Transform Grants Fund to community projects and charities across the North of England and Scotland. Every year, the Fund makes over £50,000 available to support projects...