A new National Rail Contract has been awarded to Govia to run the Govia Thameslink Railway network for another three years. The new contract is a stepping stone between the former franchise model and the forthcoming Passenger Services Contracts which will be awarded by Great British Railways in future. Like the future

London Underground staff will receive a wage rise of 8.4 per cent in April, as the result of a four-year pay deal which was agreed with the unions based on the February RPI each year plus 0.2 per cent. Honouring the agreement will cost Transport for London £100 million, while it

A Skanska manager working on HS2 has rented a 180-bed hotel in northern Poland to provide a shelter for Ukrainian refugees. Logistics manager Jakub Golata and his wife Gosia, who is a Lincolnshire Police officer, emigrated to Britain in 2004 but have now returned to their home country to help

Transport campaigners are warning that a cut in fuel duty expected in tomorrow's spring budget won't help those people who are most affected by the rising cost of living. The chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport Paul Tuohy said: 'A cut in fuel duty will only serve as

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is visiting the Siemens site in Goole today. where he will see the final mock-up of the new 94-train fleet for the Piccadilly Line. Goole is buiding half the fleet, but the Mayor has warned that future TfL contracts which support up to 700

Passengers who use TransPennine Express are being asked not to attempt to travel on Sunday, because RMT conductors will be staging another strike in a dispute over pay. RMT general secretary Mick Lynch has vowed to continue industrial action until 'pay discrimination is dealt with'. TPE had said it was

THE Department for Transport has issued a penalty notice and fined the former operator of Southeastern £23.5 million for breaches in its contract. These led to a multi-million pound shortfall, and it has now been revealed that this had been accumulating since 2006. In September last year the transport secretary announced that, following

Non-stop Gatwick Express services will return from 3 April, as air travel begins to recover in the wake of the Covid lockdowns. Govia Thameslink Railway withdrew its branded airport services on 30 March 2020, a week or so after the first lockdown had started. It is hoped that the removal

A storm-damaged section of the Cambrian Line in mid-Wales is being repaired, and Network Rail is hoping to reopen the route in the first week of April. Three major storms in quick succession in February washed away ballast over an 800m stretch near Welshpool, and Network Rail engineers have rebuilding

The TSSA union says it has written to the regulator demanding the immediate withdrawal of all surving HSTs, after new revelations in the Carmont derailment report. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch had said the HST which was derailed at Carmont in August 2020 had shown signs of corrosion. It had continued: