The Settle-Carlisle Walking Festival looks like being a huge success this May.
Everest mountaineer, Alan Hinkes OBE (left), will start two guided walks from Garsdale...
Doncaster staff at Unipart Rail raised £640 for the Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice in North Anston, Sheffield.
The money was raised by holding raffles and...
Young people are increasingly using the railways as costs of petrol and car insurance soar.
Record numbers of young people are using the 16-25 Railcard,...
Nicola Goncalves has joined the Railway Mission as chaplain for Edinburgh and the east of Scotland.
Her parish stretches right up to Aberdeen and Inverness....
Parsons Brinckerhoff has appointed Ian Bridges as its new Head of Signalling in Britain.
The company’s UK rail activity includes engineering consultancy for some of...
The former chief technical officer of the Ford Motor Company in the UK, Professor Richard Parry-Jones CBE, is to chair Network Rail.
He will replace...
London Underground is on target to achieve its most reliable year for ten years.
Passenger numbers are soaring and average delays are at their lowest...
Prime Minister David Cameron and Skills Minister John Hayes recently visited Crossrail’s new Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy.
Apprentices and staff met the pair and...
Discussing railway training with Grant McNab, Business Development Manager of Stobart Rail, has unforeseen consequences, Paul Curtis reports.
One cold morning in Cumbria I watched,...
The train from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston had just left Stockport when passenger, Jon Veitch, IEP director at East Coast, received a shock...
‘Choosing to travel by train rather than flying is important to me mainly for environmental reasons,’ says music student, Caitlin, 19.
‘I think we should...
Record numbers of people with disabilities are travelling by train.
The good news coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Disabled Persons Railcard. Taking the...
Richard McClean has been appointed managing director of Grand Central.
The open access operator, which runs direct services between Sunderland, Hartlepool and London, was taken...
MTR’s newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, Jay Walder, recently joined a group of local school children from Hong Kong as they rode through the...
