Rail News

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, has officially opened a new region-wide rail training academy designed to support hundreds of new training and employment opportunities for local people in the sector. The Transport, Rail and Infrastructure Academy (TRIA), which...

East London and South Essex train operator c2c has achieved prestigious White Ribbon accreditation, demonstrating its commitment to tackling gender inequality, and violence towards women and girls. White Ribbon is the UK’s leading charity engaging men and boys to end...

A commemorative brass plaque has been unveiled at the National Railway Museum byNetwork Rail Chair Lord Peter Hendy of Richmond Hill and Angela Levitt-Harwood, RailwayMission's York region chaplain. Ahead of Reflection Day (March 3), Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill revisited...

Rolling stock financier and asset management company Porterbrook has agreed a deal to take a 49% stake in Brodie Engineering. The Kilmarnock-based company is the only active rail engineering business in Scotland, specialising in heavy maintenance, refurbishment and overhauls for...

Train operator Southern is to introduce an extensively redesigned and improved timetable for its Hampshire and West Sussex customers in June this year. The improvements to weekday and Saturday schedules include new and more frequent services with expanded capacity on...

A full rail timetable has resumed on the Marston Vale Line between Bletchley and Bedford. A partial service has been running on the line since November 2023 when operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) introduced a replacement train fleet. Prior to...

Passengers are being encouraged to check before travelling as planned weekend engineering work in March will affect services between Norwich and Ipswich, and between Ipswich and Cambridge/Ely. Engineering work, and general maintenance is planned to take place on the mainline...

Railways experts at the University of Birmingham are joining forces with East Japan Railway Company (Japan Railway East) to create innovative rail technology and new ways of staffing Japan’s railways. University of Birmingham Provost Professor Stephen Jarvis and Japan Railway...

Network Rail and South Western Railway have officially switched on new signalling equipment to bring more reliable journeys to customers travelling between Reading, London, and Guildford. From Saturday 10 to Sunday 18 February, Network Rail completed the final phase of...

Network Rail engineers are working to remove more than 2,500 tonnes of soil at the site of a landslip in Baildon as efforts continue to reinstate train services in the area. Teams have been on site for over 10 days...