GB Railfreight is celebrating a Crossrail contract extension. The Crossrail work includes running services from Willesden Euro-terminal to Crossrail’s waste facility in Northfleet. The...
Central to the government’s National Infrastructure Plan is its continued support for railways.
The NIP lists achievements made by the industry and acknowledges that passenger...
According to the British Retail Consortium high street sales have increased by a meager 0.4% between April and June this year.
However on the railway...
This year sees the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Beeching’s ‘The Re-Shaping of British Railways’. Writes Colin Garratt
2013 also sees the thirtieth anniversary of the...
If Grand Central receives approval to operate services beyond 2016 it plans to replace its HSTs with Class 180 Adelantes.
As an open-access train operator,...
It’s 10 years since army rail engineers went into Iraq to resurrect its defunct railway. Ian Hammond, network Rail Senior Project Engineer and Territorial...
The extensively modernised area around King’s Cross will be officially re-opened on 26th September.
In August Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, laid one of the...
As part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the London Underground the Lego company has recreated five Tube Maps made entirely out of lego-bricks.
The...
Engineers start installing overhead wires and underground cabling for Edinburgh’s tram system city centre section this month.
Cables will be installed on Princes Street and...
Hitachi Rail Europe is pushing forward with plans for the construction of its new train manufacturing plant at newton Aycliffe in County Durham.
Merchant Place...
