West Midlands Trains (WMT) has announced the appointment of Charlotte Ritchie as the organisation’s head of external communications and engagement.
Charlotte, who started her role...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has previously indicated that the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise could be separated into two or more when the...
