Porterbrook, the UK’s leading rolling stock financier and asset management company, has successfully bid to finance the redevelopment of Bletchley depot for West Midlands Trains (WMT). Situated near Milton Keynes, the £66m upgrade programme is necessary for Bletchley to become...

A new era is set to begin for rail passengers in the West Midlands after West Midlands Railway unveiled its brand new fleet of electric trains. The Class 730 fleet will enter service in the region for the first time...

Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has opened its Apprentice Training Academy today, the second day of National Apprenticeship Week 2023. Following an investment of £250,000 over the last two years, the new Training Academy was officially opened...

Greater Anglia passengers can now enjoy new state-of-the-art trains across the whole of the network as new commuter trains entered service between Ely and King’s Lynn. New trains are now in service on every single route in the Greater Anglia...

Alstom and Eversholt Rail have announced a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at delivering the UK’s first ever brand-new hydrogen train fleet. The two companies have agreed to work together, sharing technical and commercial information necessary for Alstom to design, build,...

More rail passengers in Essex are able to travel on new trains as Greater Anglia’s state-of-the-art electric commuter trains entered passenger service on two new routes. The new trains went into service on the Harwich and Walton-on-the-Naze branch lines on...

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...

London Northwestern Railway (LNR) managing director Julian Edwards has visited Bombardier Transportation’s factory in Derby to see for himself progress on his new fleet of Class 730 trains. LNR has ordered 45 new trains – a total of 225 carriages...

Angel Trains has accepted the first of its new Class 720 Aventra trains from Bombardier Transportation, part of a £900 million procurement project for Greater Anglia. Replacing the suburban fleets currently leased to the train operator, the new fleet of...

Crossrail has many complex systems but providing the entire route with a new signalling system is one of the biggest challenges. It is a highly complex arrangement, with many interfaces between different new and legacy systems, although final testing...