National Apprenticeship Week was largely embraced as an opportunity to celebrate the valuable contribution of apprentices. For some organisations it was a good time...
Pledges to significantly improve services and buy new trains aren’t ‘PR fluff ’ but promises of real change, says Northern’s Alex Hynes (pictured right).
On...
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has officially opened HS2 Ltd’s new headquarters at 2 Snowhill, by Snow Hill station in central Birmingham.
Up to 1,000 staff...
Iarnród Éireann has started trial runs of longer freight trains. The trials will enable capacity of freight trains on principle routes in the Republic of...
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, came up with three rules to describe our relationship with technology. Number three says:...
The new Northern franchise will ‘start the transformation of rail travel in the North’ said Northern Rail’s managing director, Alex Hynes, in a press...
The opening of HS2’s headquarters in Birmingham last month was another important date in the project’s long, and at times difficult, timeline.
Birmingham is at...
There must have been some point during the 10-year restoration of Flying Scotsman when even the most optimistic of the engineers involved wondered whether...
An extension to Daventry International Rail Terminal (DIRFT) has been agreed by government and work will start in the next few weeks.
DIRFT III marks...
Seven miners, made redundant when Kellingley Colliery in Beal, North Yorkshire, closed down last December, are fighting their collective misfortune by training for a new...
As the new Borders Railway smashes passenger projections, new stations open and leading companies expand their use of rail freight, the government has announced...
telent Managing Director, Rail, Steve Pears spoke to Marc Johnson about telent’s future and how new technology is the answer to rail’s skills challenge.
The...
Last year was a rollercoaster year for the rail industry. Mired by the pausing of several modernisation projects, there was an air of uncertainty surrounding...
