Cancelled electrification projects should be revived and future schemes considered, according to MP Lillian Greenwood, chair of the Transport Select Committee.
The committee has published...
Balfour Beatty has opened a Rail Innovation Centre at its site in Derby which will drive the development of its intelligent asset management technology.
Around...
In 2012, Network Rail introduced its Fair Payment Charter - a voluntary scheme which encouraged the industry’s biggest contractors to pay their suppliers faster....
The Midland Metro Alliance has laid the first tram track for the Wolverhampton city centre extension of the West Midlands Metro.
The major milestone saw 36m of...
Merseyrail has opened a brand new station in Merseyside to serve the growing community in Maghull.
Maghull North station has been built off School Lane...
Network Rail major programme director Chris Montgomery explains how a collaborative approach is delivering the Great North Rail Project
If you’ve ever caught the 17.49...
Rail companies of all sizes came together to recognise the industry’s greatest achievements at the Rail Partnership Awards on 7 June.
Last held in 2015,...
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...
Network Rail has announced plans to ban retailers from supplying plastic cutlery and cups in its managed stations by the end of 2020.
Recycling schemes for...
Great Western Railway (GWR) has unveiled a special livered intercity express train to promote Pride events across its network.
The train company launched the special...
Engineers working on the South Esk viaduct, Montrose, have discovered shrapnel marks and bullet holes consistent with a bombing attack by the Luftwaffe during World...
An innovative project has been launched on the Leeds-Morecambe line - also known as the Bentham line - to make it the country's first dementia-friendly community...
SSE Enterprise Rail has secured a five-year building and civils framework from Network Rail.
The rail contractor said that the work - to be delivered...
London mayor Sadiq Kahn has announced the latest four schemes to receive funding from Transport for London's (TfL) Growth Fund.
Around £24 million will go...
Work has begun on Stadler's new £20 million depot in Kirkdale, Merseyside.
Representatives from contractor BAM Nuttall were joined by those from the Swiss train...
Network Rail's head of training strategy believes apprenticeships are changing for the better but that negative headlines could give them a bad name
Apprenticeships are...
