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Southeastern establishes new community rail fund to promote social wellbeing and economic development
Train operator Southeastern has launched a £400,000 fund for community rail projects and is inviting proposals from existing Community Rail Partnerships (CRPs) and other...
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Greater Anglia increases services from Monday 18 May
Greater Anglia has announced how it will change its services to help maintain social distancing as more people return to work, while still ensuring...
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LNER introduces FutureLabs to encourage rail innovation
LNER FutureLabs is a new innovation programme from London North Eastern Railway (LNER) that aims to fast-track digital and tech developments into the rail...
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GWR names train after Captain Tom
Captain Tom Moore, the veteran who has raised more than £29 million for the NHS to mark his 100th birthday, has been honoured by...
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Southern donates abandoned bikes to key workers
To help key workers during the coronavirus epidemic, Southern Rail is working with specialist cycle repair company Handlebars to give them free bikes.Every month,...
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New Direct Award Contract for Southeastern
Southeastern has confirmed that the Department for Transport
(DfT) has awarded a Direct Award Contract that will allow the Southeastern
franchise to continue operating until 16...
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Govia Thameslink Railway suspends Gatwick Express service
Govia Thameslink Railway has announced that from Monday, 30
March, the Gatwick Express service will be temporarily suspended until further
notice, in response to a significant...
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East Midlands Railway
Transport officials have chosen Abellio to run the next East Midlands franchise. Beginning on August 18 under the name ‘East Midlands Railway’, the new operator...
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Stagecoach receives five-month extension for East Midlands franchise
With weeks to go until it was set to expire, the Department for Transport has extended Stagecoach's operation of the East Midlands franchise.The new...
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Go-Ahead lands Norwegian train operating contract
British public transport provider Go-Ahead Group has is to run train services in Norway after winning the country's first competitively tendered train operating contract.The company,...
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Plans to split up Great Western franchise scrapped
Great Western Railway (GWR) has welcomed the decision not to break up the current Great Western franchise and create a separate operator for the...
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ScotRail appoints first female engineering director
Syeda Ghufran has become ScotRail's first female engineering director - just eight years after first joining the train company.
She joined the business as a engineering...
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Midland Metro becomes West Midlands Metro
The Midland Metro has been rebranded as the West Midlands Metro as control of the light rail system passes over from National Express to...
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LNER completes takeover from Virgin Trains East Coast
London North Eastern Railway (LNER), the Department for Transport's (DfT) operator of last resort, has taken over the InterCity East Coast franchise from Virgin Trains East...
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Transforming the Wales and Borders franchise
New trains, investment in infrastructure and hundreds of additional staff have been promised in the new 15-year Wales and Borders franchise.
KeolisAmey, the same partnership...
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Paul Plummer: rail franchising needs to change
Following a number of high-profile stories related to rail franchising, Paul Plummer, CEO of the Rail Delivery Group, says that the way in which...
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Some Great Northern services could be transferred to London Overground
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has previously indicated that the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise could be separated into two or more when the...
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MPs issue scathing attack on rail franchising system
The UK's rail franchising system has been described as "completely inadequate" and "broken" in a report by the Public Accounts Committee into the East...
