THIS year’s National Garden Railway Show looks set to be a bumper event for visitors and traders keen to get out and about to one of the first such events post-lockdown. The event at the Peterborough Arena, East of England Showground, is set for Saturday, June 26 and organisers say it

THE first of a series of six 24-hour strikes by ScotRail conductors is due to start on Sunday. The RMT has confirmed that its members will walk out from 00.01 to 23.59 on 28 March, 4, 22, 28 and 25 April, and 2 May. In addition, conductors will not work on

THE government should launch a 30-year programme of railway electrification if it is to meet the legally binding target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to the House of Commons Transport Committee. The Committee’s chair has also criticised the continuing use of trains by some operators which are

A SHORT-TERM funding settlement from the government has been accepted by Transport for London. The deal was placed on the table at the end of last week, but the Mayor of London did not accept it immediately. There will be an additional £260 million in ‘base funding’ plus additional revenue support

TRAINS are running at Kirkby again following a week of work to repair the track and platform, which was damaged by a collision during the early evening of 13 March. Inspectors from the RAIB and ORR are understood to have been examining information from the train’s data recorder, working alongside British

When most people think about the birth of the steam locomotive, they think of Robert Stephenson’s famous Rocket – but that engine followed more than 20 years of development during the late Georgian era. Author and historian Anthony Dawson has written a new book, aptly titled Before Rocket – The Steam

Mortons Books has teamed up with Hornby for a great competition to celebrate the release of a brand new InterCity 125 bookazine. The new Mortons Books bookazine – Intercity 125: High Speed Tribute – hits the shelves, we’ve secured a superb OO gauge model of Class 43 HST Power Cars 43002 and 43003 in

Regular passenger services will return on a largely disused Dartmoor Line later this year as part of Government plans to reverse the Beeching cuts. The Department for Transport (DfT) said trains will run every two hours on the Dartmoor Line between Exeter and Okehampton, Devon, all year round by the end

THE RMT has declared a national dispute in protest at changes at Network Rail which the union claims will lead to thousands of redundancies and a halving of safety critical maintenance work. RMT general secretary Mick Cash is seeking an urgent meeting with transport secretary Grant Shapps. Mr Cash said: ‘Under orders

Updated 10.18 TRANSPORT FOR LONDON has been offered a short-term funding extension which would run for a further two months on the same terms as now. The deal has not yet been accepted. TfL said: ‘We continue to discuss with the DfT our need for further financial support and a long-term capital funding deal to enable a