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Virgin Trains has scooped two top awards in the annual Cheshire Best Station awards. For the second year in a row, Virgin Trains has walked away with the Best Staffed Station and the Best Customer Care awards, with Crewe and...

Réseau Ferré de France has selected Eiffage as its "preferred bidder" for the publicprivate partnership contract to design, build, maintain and fund the Brittany – Loire Valley high-speed line. As the extension to the existing high-speed line between Paris and...

Keith Spalding, a revenue manager at First Capital Connect, has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise £2,500 for East Anglia Children’s Hospices (EACH). Keith, who lives near Ipswich, along with his brother and 13 others left the UK on 27th December...

Britain’s planned high speed rail network will bring major economic benefits to the West Midlands, Transport Minister Norman Baker has told the region. Speaking at a Parliamentary Reception hosted by transport authority Centro, Mr Baker urged key figures from the...

DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd is to invest £3 million to upgrade seven class 60 locomotives creating a new fleet of "Super 60's". During the first half of this year seven class 60 locomotives will be overhauled in a...

Over the recent Christmas and New Year period, project teams from Invensys Rail in the UK  have successfully commissioned a series of major main line schemes. At 04:55 on 30th December 2010, the Reading Enabling Project was ...

Eurotunnel have revealed their traffic and revenue figures for 2010. 2010 revenues increased globally by 26% to €736.6 million. Jacques Gounon, Chairman and Chief Executive of Groupe Eurotunnel SA, stated, “Despite the very difficult economic situation, Eurotunnel’s activities have shown strong...

By any measure, a new main line railway station is a rare commodity. There has been only a handful over the past 20 years, some linked to regional airports. But the south-east has its own, congestion-easing rail-air interchange at...

Following the award of the major tunnelling contracts last month, Crossrail today started the tender process for a further four central London stations – Bond Street, Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road and Whitechapel. A notice has been published in the...

The State Government is conducting a full assessment of the Western train line to Toowoomba and beyond, but there are early indications the line has suffered substantial damage. Helicopter survey flights have identified at least one bridge has...