The National Railway Museum in York and Locomotion in Shildon have reopened for the first time this year. Since tickets were released two weeks ago, 10,219 people have booked their free tickets to visit the National Railway Museum, with another 5,441 people booking to visit Locomotion in Shildon. Also see The railway

EUROSTAR has reached agreement with its shareholders and banks, lifting the threat which had been hanging over the operator as a result of the Covid pandemic and resulting travel restrictions. The deal is worth £250 million, and it consists mainly of additional equity and loans from a syndicate of banks backed

updated 10.46FUNDING for Transport for London has been extended until 28 May, while talks continue with the government over a longer-term financial settlement. TfL said: ‘We continue to discuss our funding requirements with the government and hope these discussions can be concluded successfully soon, to enable a strong and robust recovery

Photo: RAIB An inquest into the Croydon tram derailment in 2016 -which caused the deaths of seven people – has opened. A further 51 people were injured when the derailment happened in south London on November 9, 2016. Also see The inquest was initially due to begin in October 2020, but was postponed

REPORTS that the much-delayed Williams Review of the railway industry – now apparently renamed the ‘Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail’– could be published this week have sparked protests from the RMT union, which is predicting ‘a tsunami of cuts’ and widespread job losses. The main planks of Keith Williams’ reforms are said

LOCKDOWNS are being eased again from today, but the RMT says although it supports increases in public transport services it is also calling for ’zero tolerance’ of any breach of transport Covid safety measures or abuse of staff. Many operators are boosting their service levels in response to fewer restrictions, although

THE first of eight additional trams for West Midlands Metro has been delivered from Spain. Five of the eight CAF trams will be needed later this year when extensions open in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and have batteries as well as a conventional pantograph so that they can run on sections where

Updated 09.55, 10.08 A PLAN to bring Hitachi Intercity Express trains progressively back into service has been unveiled by Hitachi, the Rail Delivery Group and the operators affected by the discovery of hairline tracks on some units in Classes 800 and 385. Services are back to normal on Hull Trains, ScotRail and

EXCLUSIVE THE return of all Hitachi-built Intercity Expresses to normal service is ‘a long way off’, according to notes of an internal industry briefing seen by Railnews. The document also reveals that two types of cracking have been discovered and that welding to repair the damage will be a ‘highly specialist