Photo: Eurostar Rail unions are stepping up their campaign for financial help to secure the future of Eurostar, which has been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has launched a petition calling on the Government to assist the cross-Channel rail service. Related articles “Like other rail companies

THE RMT union is warning that the future of Eurostar is at risk because Britain and France have not agreed about emergency funding. Eurostar services have been reduced to just a couple each day following the clampdown on international travel, and the operator’s chief executive Jacques Damas has warned that ‘catastrophe

A new sea wall at Dawlish is protecting the section of railway track that was washed away seven years ago in devastating storms, according to Network Rail. In February 2014, storms struck the south Devon coastline at Dawlish and cut off the only railway line to the South West. Related articles But

Updated 10.13 THE first British railway operator to be formally renationalised is Transport for Wales, which became publicly owned yesterday. The Welsh Government said it had taken action to ‘protect services, safeguard jobs and deliver infrastructure improvements in light of the ongoing challenges of coronavirus’. Transport for Wales is now providing Wales and

IT IS seven years since the first of two savage storms destroyed several hundred metres of main line along the sea wall at Dawlish in south Devon, on 4 and 5 February 2014. Attempts to provide some emergency protection using freight containers filled with sand and stones did not prevent a

Photo: PA News A “forensic focus” is required to complete Crossrail within its revised budget and timescale, an inquiry has found. In a report, the London Assembly Transport Committee urged Transport for London (TfL) and mayor Sadiq Khan to ensure “past mistakes are not repeated”. Related articles It recommends they keep a tight

Photo: PA News Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told a Transport Select Committee that the HS2 project will be vital for enabling people to meet each other unless teleportation becomes a reality. Mr Shapps continues to back the high-speed rail project despite the collapse in demand for travel caused by the COVID-19

Britain’s best-selling rail title The Railway Magazine is back for another month of award-winning photos, news, features and exclusives from the rail industry, past and present. This month’s The Railway Magazine takes you behind the scenes with the Royal Train, plus the COVID-19 pandemic leaves Eurostar on the brink of collapse. Here’s what

The February issue of The Railway Magazine has some great prizes which must be won. The first prize in a Hornby PB/GBRF NHS-branded Captain Tom Moore Class 66 No. 66731 limited edition, donated by Porterbrook. The second prize is the DVD of Britain’s Railways – The Golden Age of the ‘Big Four’

TRAIN services on the West Coast Main Line between London and Rugby are expected to be disrupted until mid-February after the landslip at Hillmorton, just south of Rugby. An Avanti West Coast driver reported a dip in the track on 27 January, and that the ground appeared to be moving. As Network