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Square deal for King’s Cross

Plans to create a paved square with trees in front of King’s Cross station have been given the go ahead. The design, by architects Stanton...

Raising the roof

Plans to transform London Bridge station have been given the green light by Southwark Council. The station will have a completely new platform layout allowing...

Waterloo Sunrise

One of Waterloo’s four disused Eurostar platforms is to be returned to service in 2014. Longer trains are to serve the terminus as the DfT...

Work starts at Three Bridges

Construction of the new operating centre at Three Bridges has begun. When completed in 2013 it will become the nerve centre of railway operations in...

Platform promise for Peterborough

More platforms and a new ticket hall feature in a £43m plan to upgrade Peterborough station. The redevelopment heralds longer, more frequent trains and anticipates...

ScotRail’s engineering director praises local station adopter

A surprise visit by ScotRail’s engineering director, saw local station adopter, Max Bentley, singled out for praise at Giffnock. At the station to meet staff...

Leicester station to be ‘lighter and brighter’

Leicester is getting a freshen up and a lighter, brighter entrance to the station. Listed building consent was recently received to complete the works inside...

Kidwelly Scouts in landscape triumph

The 1st Kidwelly Scouts have been hard at work landscaping the town’s railway station. Their efforts have been officially unveiled by the Mayor of Kidwelly,...

Station Sessions Festival at St Pancras proves to be a hit

Top band, the Guillemots, opened the Station Sessions Festival at St Pancras International recently. The band performed numbers including ‘I must be a lover,’ before...

Oxenholme station features artwork

Oxenholme station is taking on a new role as an art gallery as well as a popular staging post for travellers to the Lake...

Prince opens Llandovery station

Llandovery station in Carmarthenshire has been refurbished and smartened up by volunteers. The station building, which was closed in 1992, was re-opened by HRH Prince...