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Rail progress over the past 12 months Newly appointed Transport Minister Kevin Stewart has welcomed the opportunity to mark ScotRail’s first year under public ownership. Since the Scottish Government brought ScotRail into public ownership on 1 April last year, Ministers have...

The results of a feasibility study for the Department for Transport (DfT) into a new railway station for Devizes have been released today by Network Rail. Wiltshire Council, Devizes Development Partnership (DDP) and GWR worked closely with Network Rail to...

When HS2 established its Values Behaviour Framework it made a clear statement about the standards it expects from its workforce and companies engaged in its supply chain. Today, on International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV), HS2 is celebrating the...

Today HS2’s tunnelling team in Warwickshire celebrated the milestone breakthrough of tunnel boring machine ‘Dorothy’ as the giant cutterhead broke through the wall of the Long Itchington Wood Tunnel south portal. Launched in November last year, it’s only taken...

The final phase of Greater Anglia’s £1.4 billion fleet replacement programme begins next week. Monday 3 April will see the last pre-planned use of the remaining older Class 321 trains, after which just a handful of those electric trains...

Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility and Irish Rail have together unveiled a 1:1 scale mock-up carriage for DART+ to the Irish public in the presence of Irish Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD, Jim Meade (Irish Rail’s...

Northern has announced a 25% discount for thousands of key workers using its services across the North of England. NHS workers, carers, teachers and staff working for registered charities will now be eligible for a 25% discount on Advance Purchase...

c2c is proud to announce the launch of a brand new train wrapped in support of British Transport Police’s ‘Railway Guardian’ app.  The train, which features eye-catching graphics promoting the app - including a QR code to scan to download...

On Thursday 23 March, three years after the first Covid-19 lockdown, the rail industry came together to hold a memorial day to celebrate the vital role played by its people during the pandemic, while also remembering those from the...

The Tyne and Wear Metro’s new train fleet is to have life-saving defibrillators in every driver’s cab. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, said that all 46 of its new Stadler trains would have two defibrillators on...