Following the appointment of Lord Peter Hendy as Minister of State at the Department for Transport, Network Rail’s senior non-executive director, Mike Putnam, has been appointed as acting…
Rail reform is at the heart of the new UK Government. With the general election in the UK two weeks ago, and the Labour Party taking over in…
The new Labour Party government has announced its team of ministers in charge of transport. The new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has appointed his shadow team to the…
Britain’s railway signalling and control system is set to undergo the biggest shake-up in the history of the network. The infrastructure agency, Network Rail, has announced a decade-long…
When Great British Railways eventually succeeds Network Rail as the infrastructure and management agency for the UK network, it will inherit a much-changed railway. In terms of passenger…
With manufacturing jobs threatened and train factories at risk of closure, there have been calls for the UK government to make immediate decisions on the building and upgrading…
There has been a predictably critical response to the revelation that the UK government has already spent over fifty million pounds (around 60 million euro) on its plan…
The East Midlands city of Derby has fulfilled the betting predictions. The favourite has been announced as the headquarters of Great British Railways, the future and overarching management…
With astonishing inevitability, the appointment of a new prime minister has meant the appointment of a new transport secretary. Step up to the platform edge, Mark Harper, who…
The Railway Industry Association, which represents the supply chain the UK, has kept up the pressure on the reshuffled Conservative party administration in the UK government. The RIA…
Great British Railways (GBR), the new overarching management body in the UK, must be ambitious for the future of rail. That is the message from the Railway Industry…
Prince Charles, the next in line to the British Throne, earlier on Monday delivered the “Queen’s Speech”, the formal reading to the British Parliament of the forthcoming agenda…
The UK government has surprised the travel market with the announcement of a snap sale of passenger train tickets, claiming to cut the cost of rail travel in…
The rail supply sector, represented by the Railway Industry Association (RIA), has set out what it calls five ‘tests’ for Great British Railways (GBR), the new overarching body,…
The UK regulator, the Office of Rail and Road, has launched the process for determining the funding needed for Britain’s rail network between 2024-2029. Critical decisions affecting freight…