‘They made my life hell’: UK rail minister got engineer fired for raising safety concerns

UK rail minister Peter Hendy allegedly got an award-winning railway engineer fired for talking to the media about safety issues at one of the country’s busiest transport hubs.…

UK: one strike off, one ballot on

A damaging strike, affecting London to Edinburgh trains, has been called off at the last minute. The dispute, which would have seen members of the drivers’ union take…

Brussels-France high-speed services return, but not so fast…

After more than two weeks of track renewal works, high-speed services between Brussels and the French border are set to start again on Friday morning, according to Belgium’s…

Vossloh’s rail replacement tech sees key ICE line fixed in record time

Earlier this month, Deutsche Bahn replaced approximately 70 kilometres of rail along one of its key transport routes, the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed line, in the space of just four…