A branch in West London will become the first GWR route to be served by a battery train on 31 January. Saturday services on the West Ealing to Greenford line will be provided from now on by the specially converted Class 230 unit, which was originally part of a D78 stock

Transport for London has unveiled an ambition to take over the Great Northern inner suburban services between Moorgate, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage, by including them in the Overground network. The proposal has been outlined the draft of TfL’s latest Business Plan, covering the next five years, which will be considered

Euston station in London is back on the high speed agenda, after the first of two tunnel boring machines began its subterranean journey from Old Oak Common to the Euston Road. This section has been mired in a controversy which was even greater than over the rest of the project, because

Train services in south west England are not expected to return to normal before the weekend, National Rail has warned. Storms Ingrid and Chandra, which GWR described as ‘back to back’, caused severe flooding in parts of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, while after heavy seas had damaged a sea wall, a

Train services in parts of Wales as well as in southern and south west England are being delayed or cancelled as a result of Storm Chandra. Replacement buses are running in Devon and Cornwall because the lines to Okehampton, Barnstaple and Newquay have all been flooded, while there are speed restrictions

Northern has revealed that it is planning to buy up to 450 trains, but it has not confirmed how they will paid for. The acquisition is set to be managed in three phases, the first of which will include about 130 trains. Northern invited final tenders from manufacturers in November, and

An agreement signed by central government ministers and the Mayor of Greater Manchester has paved the way for a new railway between Manchester and Liverpool as part of Northern Powerhouse Rail. But politicians in Hull have protested at the lack of any mention of electrification to their city in the

The Office of Rail and Road has blamed the unpopular cancellation of an early morning train from Manchester to London, which was hastily reinstated, on a lack of information and pressure of work. A controversy blew up in late November when it was revealed that the 07.00 Avanti West Coast service

Two train operators in the north of England are continuing to see their passenger figures recover in the wake of the Covid lockdowns, which began almost six years ago. Northern recorded 21.9 million journeys in 2020-21, and this had more than quadrupled to 91.8 million by 2024-25 according to the Office

The RMT is stepping up its campaign opposing outsourcing, after Transport for London awarded a five-year cleaning contract to Mitie earlier this month. The contract covers the cleaning of trains and Underground stations, bus stations, TfL offices, the London Transport Museum and waste collection at City Hall. Mitie will employ more than