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Magenta magic in Birmingham

Midland Metro’s new magenta trams have entered passenger service between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, ticking off the first major milestone in the system’s relaunch. When the...

Wing Award moves to Rail Safety Summit

Next year, the prestigious Wing Award for Safety will be presented at the Rail Safety Summit conference to be held at the Royal College of Physicians. The re-launch of...

Learn more about FTNx

Telecommunications is one of the hidden technologies on our railways. Everyone expects telephones to work, CCTV cameras to feed back to control centres, and passenger...

Roll up, roll up

The RailStaff Awards 2014 will be bringing all the magic of the Big Top to Coventry Ricoh Arena this October. The Circus is coming...

Newport focus for Signalling Solutions

Newport has rediscovered some of its lost railway heritage with the opening of Signalling Solutions' new design office in the city. The office, which officially...

McLoughlin joins Orange Army

The sight of Patrick McLoughlin, Secretary of State for Transport, clad from head to foot in lurid orange hi-vis gear, addressing a crowd of...

Rail freight – Solving the capacity challenge

In the mid 1980s, France’s national postal carrier, La Poste, launched its high-speed mail rail service. It suddenly allowed the company to move letters...

Derby celebrates 175 years

Staff and supporters at Bombardier Transportation’s Litchurch Lane works in Derby have been commemorating 175 years of train manufacturing in the city. Renowned heritage locomotives...

World class hub for Nottingham

Nottingham station’s brand- new Southern Concourse has been officially opened to the public. The glass-fronted building marks a new era for the 100 year...

Ministerial visit to Queensbury Tunnel

Transport Minister Robert Goodwill visited Queensbury near Bradford today (June 23) where locals are trying to save a disused railway tunnel for future use...

Progress Rail apprentices greet MPs

Top performing apprentices at Progress Rail Services UK met two local MPs recently. George King, Drew Wheatley and Tom Lowton are all building railway...

Rail Alliance supports RailStaff Awards

The Rail Alliance is delighted to be associated with the RailStaff Awards 2014 and will be co-sponsoring the expanded event this year at Coventry....

Network Rail supports RailStaff Awards 2014

Network Rail is supporting the RailStaff Awards 2014 at a bigger venue - Coventry Ricoh Arena. In a fitting parallel to Network Rail’s inspired...

Rail Live 2014

With just a few weeks to go until Rail Live 2014 over 220 exhibitors registered and over 1600 visitors have booked up to attend....

Atlantic Concert heralds Mallard Swansong

Locomotives, Dominion of Canada and Dwight D Eisenhower, have departed Britain sailing from Liverpool for Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard the Atlantic Concert. Both locos received a...

Rail Media takes to the peaks

Rail Media will be taking on the Three Peaks Challenge by Rail for the third year in a row next month. A team of five...

Rail Safety Summit

Walking into Regent’s Park in the morning sunshine on April 28th I was pleased that the fifth national Rail Safety Summit was in London...

Rail Media at Infrarail 2014

There will be something new on the Rail Media stand at Infrarail 2014. As well as hosting the show’s technical seminar’s (A41), Rail Media will...