'Controversy? What controversy?' quipped Steve Scrimshaw, Siemens' managing director for rail in the UK, talking about the challenge of delivering the trains for Thameslink...
Pledges to significantly improve services and buy new trains aren’t ‘PR fluff ’ but promises of real change, says Northern’s Alex Hynes (pictured right).
On...
People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones,’ said American engineer and inventor Charles Kettering.
Kettering is...
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...
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...
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...
As pioneers of cross channel freight services celebrated the 20th anniversary of the opening of the international railway tunnel Eurotunnel announced a further series...
Figures released by Northern Rail show a large reduction in the number of assaults on staff.
Physical assaults against railway staff were down 38% year-on-year...
A second tranche of hard-working ScotRail Modern Apprentices in Customer Service has graduated under a pioneering initiative to develop young talent.
Around 70 guests — including Angela Constance,...