Rolling Stock

DB Cargo UK has named one of its Class 66 locomotives (66186) in honour of Antony Slater, the late founder of the Plasmor Group, one of the UK’s largest independent manufacturers of concrete products. Plasmor started using rail to transport...

A leading rail engineering company specialising in maintaining, refurbishing and overhauling passenger and freight trains celebrates its 30th birthday - with the business going from strength to strength. Brodie Engineering operates from two sites in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, employing more than...

Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems UK and Chiltern Railways presented interim findings from their year-long Low Adhesion Monitoring System trial to attendees at this week’s ADHERE (ADHEsion REsearch) Seminar in Birmingham. Developed by Knorr-Bremse and jointly engineered with Chiltern Railways, with support from Angel Trains, the...

Hitachi Rail is celebrating 10 years of Scottish operations, with its British-built trains and digital maintenance, increasing reliability and modal shift, while also reducing carbon emissions by 82%. As part of ‘Team Scotland’ Hitachi Rail has been developing new solutions...

ScotRail has commenced the procurement process for financing options for a new suburban train fleet.  This is part of the process to fund the building and delivery of the fleet, which will comprise a minimum of 69 trains, with an option of additional orders of up to 37 trains. ScotRail will then enter into a rolling stock lease when the new trains enter service in...

DLR customers will benefit from the return of the network’s new trains, with a phased reintroduction expected by late summer. This follows significant progress by engineering teams in carrying out detailed investigations, testing, and assurance to ensure the fleet...

CrossCountry has welcomed passengers onboard its first refurbished Voyager train - marking a major milestone in a £75 million investment to upgrade long‑distance travel across Britain. The train’s return to service on Tuesday 24 February follows completion of its refurbishment...

225 Preservation CIC has announced that it has reached an agreement with Beacon Rail to purchase two Mark 4 Pullman Open coaches for preservation. As part of InterCity 225 electric train sets they worked long-distance services out of London King’s...

Alstom is celebrating the achievements of two Plymouth-based trainees who have been recognised for their skills and high standards in the Devon city’s annual Apprentice of the Year Awards. Kieren O’Donnell, an industrial engineering apprentice at Alstom – and studying...

Network Rail will begin the first stage of electrification on the Borders Railway later this week. The work follows the Scottish Government’s announcement in September last year of a £342 million investment to electrify routes in Fife and the Borders...