The Freightliner Group, one of the most successful management buy-outs of the rail privatisation process, has been acquired by Genesee & Wyoming Inc (G&W)...
Over the next few years, Network Rail is replacing the traditional signal box with 12 Rail Operating Centres (ROCs) and an advanced traffic management...
With its customary razzamatazz, the Virgin/Stagecoach operation took over East Coast on 1 March. An Intercity 225 in full Virgin East Coast livery arrived...
Northern Rail has unveiled a spruced-up fleet of Class 319 EMUs for use on the newly electrified railway on the Liverpool Lime Street-Manchester Airport...
Two of China’s biggest state-owned rolling stock manufacturers have decided to merge.
By joining together, China CNR and CSR Corp will create a global...
Solihull College and Virgin Trains have joined forces to find unemployed young people, aged between 18 and 24, to join the company’s training scheme.
The...
Balfour Beatty’s rail business has been making headlines across the national and specialist trade press in recent months.
The company has been slimming down in...
ISS Labour (ISSL) has added two new divisions to its rail support services business: Thermic Track Welding and Overhead Line Electrification. ISSL has been...
David McLoughlin joined Spencer Rail as chief executive officer in April 2014. Previously finance and commercial director at Network Rail, he has more than...
With the Minister of Transport talking hard ball about the cost of running Iarnród Éireann, Tim Casterton asked David Franks, the company’s CEO, how...
