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 half. Ministers say it will re-invigorate the...Read more
67 percent of Network Rail suppliers have signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce their carbon footprint. By 2025, three-quarters of suppliers should have set targets to reduce emissions in line with...Read more
The UK rail industry has come together to send more than one million items of aid to Ukraine in response to the humanitarian crisis. A first aid train has left the UK on a special...Read more
The UK government has made 7,6 million pounds (9,14 million) euros available for the participants of this year’s First of Kind competition, which challenges organisations to help modernise rail travel.Read more
Travellers on the Metropolitan line in London will likely face severe disruptions after routine checks uncovered a fault “on a number of Metropolitan line trains”, necessitating an inspection of the entire fleet and a special...Read more
Network Rail has removed graffiti at more than 450 sites along its routes, the infrastructure manager announced on Monday. Network Rail used some 2 million pounds (2,39 million euros) worth of funding for the works.Read more
Rolling stock manufacturers and parties involved in maintenance need to gain a deeper understanding of the levels of fatigue loading experienced by rolling stock. That is one of the recommendation made by the Office of...Read more
The UK Department of Transportation on Monday confirmed a 1,03-billion-pound grant (1,23 billion euros) to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) for an upgrade of the region’s public transport options, which includes building the country’s...Read more
Freight and passenger traffic came to a standstill in the Channel Tunnel and at the busiest cross-channel port of Dover on Monday. A stopped train under the waves combined with a lack of ferry services...Read more
Last weekend, Network Rail competed repairs on the Cambrain Line, which suffered extensive flood damage caused by storm Franklin in February. In total, 33 washouts had to be repaired on the section between Shrewsbury and...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
An 82-year-old UK railway worker has entered his 60th year of service, a media report on Wednesday revealed. The octogenarian says he is not planning on retiring any time soon.Read more
The European Commission earlier on Tuesday approved the proposed merger between Thalys and Eurostar, moving the process that was first announced in 2019 one step closer to finalisation.Read more
The various anti-HS2 protests have costs the railway project just shy of 122 million pounds (145,9 million euros), Minister of State at the Department for Transport Andrew Stephenson said in Parliament earlier this month.Read more
Following a breach of its franchise agreement, London & South Eastern Railway Limited (LSER) has been issued with a penalty of 28 million euros (23.5 million pounds) by the British government. The penalty notice, announced...Read more
