Scotland’s Forth Bridge may be the most famous railway river crossing in the world, but there is another, equally important, if not quite so grand affair spans the same river, a little further upstream. Now...Read more
Post-covid, but stuck in the middle of a pandemic of disputes. British passenger numbers have shown recovery in the latest official figures, but there are mixed results, and not all are positive. There are mixed...Read more
With rail services in the whole of Britain disrupted over the weekend, Scotland now faces a difficult week. Unions called out their members on Monday, after pay talks at ScotRail failed to produce a satisfactory...Read more
Ricardo and its partners have received additional funding in order to move their ‘Holistic Hydrogen Approach to Heavy Duty Transport’ (H2H) project to the next phase.Read more
Following the resolution of their long-running dispute with the train drivers union, the publicly owned ScotRail plans to reintroduce a full timetable from today. However, the hot weather may scupper those ambitions to run a...Read more
Scotland’s publicly run railway has been given the funding to address electric power supply issues. The injection of 120 million pounds (140 million euros) will help the network reach the Scottish government’s ambitious target of...Read more
Network Rail, the UK infrastructure management agency, is currently concluding a lengthy protection and maintenance programme on a World Heritage Site. It also happens in one of the most iconic structures across the railway network....Read more
1 April 2022 marks the day that the Scottish Government has taken full public ownership of the network in the north of the UK. A new public agency is responsible for all passenger operations that...Read more
British union TSSA demands that all ScotRail’s high-speed trains are taken out of service to check for corrosion issues following a report on the derailment at Carmont near Stonehaven, Scotland last year.Read more
The drainage system at the Carmot accident site in Scotland, where on the morning of August 2020 a train derailment happened that left three dead, was not constructed and installed according to the designers’ requirements,...Read more
Orion High Speed Logistics, the parcels and light loads division of Rail Operations Group, has launched their much anticipated high-speed service, bringing mass-market parcels traffic back to the British railway scene. A morning departure from...Read more
The tri-mode HydroFLEX train, which can run on hydrogen, electricity and battery power, is making an appearance at the UN climate conference in Glasgow. No hydrogen is on board for the event however, and is...Read more
Scotland’s Railway managing director Alex Hynes calls on the transport sector to reduce emissions in memory of the victims of the Stonehaven rail crash last year, where climate change played a role. Scotland had been...Read more
Strike action that threatened to cripple train services in Scotland during the UN Climate Conference has been called off after the RMT union agreed on a deal with ScotRail. This was announced on Wednesday evening...Read more
Scotland’s transport minister says he is not optimistic about averting a mass strike by rail staff during the UN Climate Conference. Union RMT has said the strike will continue earlier this week. The climate conference...Read more
