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

FUNDING worth £40.5 million has been confirmed to restore passenger services in Devon between Exeter St David’s and Okehampton. Part of the line as far as Crediton has never lost its passenger services and is used by Barnstaple trains, but the cash injection from the Department for Transport means that the

Glasgow, Scotland, UK – July 12,2013: A ScotRail train at the platform at Queen Street station in Glasgow. Glasgow Central Station was opened on 31 July 1879. The ScotRail rail franchise will be nationalised from 2022, the Scottish Government has announced. Train services will be run by the Government as an “operator

TWO key reports have been published by Network Rail, accompanied by a new warning that climate change is posing a ‘substantial’ threat to railway infrastructure, particularly as nineteenth century earthworks were often poorly designed and drained, and are now typically at least 150 years old. One of the reports, into the

THE Scottish Government has decided to keep ScotRail under public control when the present Abellio franchise is terminated using a break point in the contract a year from now. The franchise is presently being supported under an Emergency Measures Agreement, with costs paid and revenue collected by Transport Scotland in return

Following the shocking March 1 statement from Llangollen Railway PLC regarding the heritage railway’s recent insolvency, the directors have had to take the “reluctant step” of inviting the bank to appoint a receiver/administrator. The company’s losses were said to stem from the contract engineering side of the business, where problems predated

THE future of ScotRail after March next year may be revealed today, when a statement is expected in the Scottish Parliament. A union has called for full nationalisation. The government has said it will take advantage of a ‘break point’ in March 2022 in its present contract with Abellio, which has

THE future of Eurostar is still uncertain, after the international operator was brought close to failure by Covid-related restrictions on international travel. The timetable has been cut to just one daily train each way between London, Brussels and Amsterdam, and one between London and Paris. The UK no longer has a

KIRKBY station has been closed for repairs after an arriving train collided with a buffer stop on Saturday evening. The Merseyrail train was derailed and a section of platform was damaged at about 18.35. None of the 12 passengers or two staff members on board were injured, although the driver was taken

A NEW second headquarters for the Department for Transport is being formed in the West Midlands, along with a further regional hub in Leeds. The DfT will be keeping its London headquarters near Victoria, but said its new centres would be employing 650 people by 2025, including senior civil servants. Rail minister