Severn Tunnel closed for another major track replacement
Some say endless jobs are “like painting the Forth Bridge”. In the West Country, they may well say it’s more like “track renewals in the Severn Tunnel”. Less…
Over five hundred extra crossings between Wales and England
UK infrastructure agency Network Rail has made a safety warning over 564 extra level crossings. It’s even more on Saturdays. – 658 of them. More precisely, that’s around…
Another Cardiff-Edinburgh rail service proposal
You wait forever for a Cardiff-Edinburgh train operator – then two come along at once. Aspirant open access operator, Grand Union, has initiated industry consultations for its ambitious…
CrossCountry wins new contract and proposes historic Edinburgh-Cardiff train
The UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has granted CrossCountry, an arm of the Arriva Group, a new contract to continue operating its extensive long-distance and inter-regional services…
Network Rail in Wales enhances Ebbw Vale line
The South Wales commuter line between the former coal and steel town of Ebbw Vale and Cardiff is on track to get its long awaited Christmas present. Infrastructure…
HS2 serves Wales from a distance says UK government
A damning examination in the regional press has slammed the UK government for claiming that Wales will be served by HS2. Welsh citizens are unimpressed because the nearest…
Wales faces radical rail review
Rail services administered by Transport for Wales are simply unacceptable. That is the opinion of the nationalist leader in Wales, Mr Rhun ap Iorwerth. Speaking in the Welsh…
Carmarthen’s next train to Aberystwyth will depart in … thirty years
Transport campaigners are calling on the Welsh Government to take action to reinstate the railway line that directly links Carmarthen to Aberystwyth, which originally closed in February 1965.…
Welsh trains come home to a real fire – in flames
The much heralded rolling stock upgrade across Wales has hit the buffers. The deployment of a multi-billion pound modernisation of the passenger fleet is in disarray, after a…
Spanish armada to relaunch British open access bid
An ambitious plan for express trains between South Wales and London, and eventually between Central Scotland and London, may be back on the rails. Grand Union Trains, an…
Wales: new passenger fleet makes great leap forward
The Welsh fleet is not the oldest in the UK, but certainly not the youngest. That, however, is all set for radical change, as part of the far-reaching…
Resilience works in Mid-Wales improve reliability for passengers and future freight
A multi-million-pound flood protection project is underway on a mid-Wales railway, following a series of devastating winter storms. Network Rail has begun work to install around 10,000 tonnes…
Climate change resilience for vital England – Wales rail freight link
Network Rail has announced a 25 million pound (28 million euro) investment to secure the future of what they describe as a critical cross-border transport link, serving freight…
Welsh railway test centre ready to be built
An opencast mine in Wales will be the construction ground for a brand new railway testing center. At the Global Centre of Rail Excellence, rolling stock, infrastructure and…
Railway selfie craze linked to 433 ‘serious incidents’ in Wales
Hashtags like #railphotography and #railwayshoot have escalated dramatically in recent years – with more than 1 million uses on apps like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok. In Wales, this…