Alstom to build new Elizabeth Line trains
A lifeline order has been secured for Derby’s Litchurch Lane engineering works. The famous railway works was on the brink of closure. The order book was empty. However,…
Wild appointment for new HS2 CEO
Britain’s highest-profile railway project has a new man in the driving seat. Mark Wild has filled the vacancy as chief executive for the massive HS2 high-speed rail project.…
Eleventh hour reprieve for Alstom at Derby?
Litchurch Lane. It’s an address that is synonymous with UK train manufacturing. However, the famous railway works in the city of Derby are facing ultimate closure. The order…
Pressure group proposes lifeline to Alstom Derby
The doors have all but locked on the Alstom train assembly plant in Derby. The famous Litchurch Lane Works has run out of work, and faces imminent closure,…
London’s Elizabeth Line is a victim of its own success
Before it became fashionable to berate expensive infrastructure projects, the nineteen billion pound (22 billion euro) Elizabeth Line, was an icon of British engineering achievement. The building of…
Celebrities and rail bosses were among hundreds trapped by downed wires in west London
It’s already entered folklore as the Great Paddington Dewiring. When a major terminal is paralysed, one of the world’s busiest airports has connections severed, a showpiece metro grinds…
Heathrow southern rail link concept takes flight again
It has been on the taxiway more than once, but now there’s a renewed pushback for a rail link from the south of London to Heathrow Airport. The…
Happy first birthday to London’s Elizabeth Line
London is celebrating the first anniversary of public service on the Elizabeth Line, the highly anticipated addition to the capital’s transport network. Since its launch, the Elizabeth Line…
Opening of Bond Street paves the way for full Elizabeth Line implementation
Bond Street, the most significant central London station on the Elizabeth Line, has opened. The inauguration comes exactly five months behind the interim service on the line. The…
Paddington station closed on the busiest day ever in London
It was a very British disruption to a very British day. Of all the possible travel issues to arise on the day of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth,…
Transport for London faces greatest one-day demand ever
Around one million visitors; over one hundred state visits; and one state funeral. Today, Monday 19 September, could be the busiest day in the history of Transport for…
UK National Mourning: impacts and legacies on the railways
The death of Queen Elizabeth has enormous long-term implications for the constitutional UK, but also very practical implications for the immediate future on the railways. Already, the ongoing…
London’s new railway: Jubilee jubilation for Elizabeth Line
More than one million journeys were made on the central section of London’s new Elizabeth Line in the five days since opening on Tuesday, 24 May and leading…
London’s underground overground Elizabeth Line opens today
The Elizabeth Line, named after the longest serving monarch in British history, opens today to Queens and commoners alike, just in time for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee. Tunnelling…
London’s Heathrow Express liveried for the world
Heathrow Express, the premium rail service between London Paddington and the airport, has been out-shopped in a series of new liveries, designed to highlight important world-wide destinations, including…