THE Department for Transport has awarded a three year contract to Arriva to continue running CrossCountry until October 2023. The new deal will not include significant commercial risk for Arriva, because the terms of the contract are those which apply to the new Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements, with the DfT paying

The Government has awarded a new contract to Arriva CrossCountry to continue running train services until October 2023. The agreement will see the Government take on the revenue and cost risk associated with the franchise, in line with Emergency Recovery Measures Agreements announced in September. Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: “This

Network Rail has joined a campaign to highlight abuse suffered by customer-facing workers. The rail infrastructure company said attacks on staff happen “all too often”. The Together Against Hate project launches with a television advert featuring employees reflecting on why they love working for the public, overlaid with recordings and CCTV footage

TRAINS are calling at Kintore in Aberdeenshire today for the first time since December 1964. The new two-platform station was built at a cost of £15 million. It is fully accessible, with lifts to the footbridge, and also has a car park which offers 168 spaces – 24 of them equipped

THE Scottish Government is providing a further £4 million of emergency funding for Glasgow Subway and Edinburgh Trams in response to the pandemic and the revenue shortfalls which have resulted, but the chairman of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has described the award as ‘disappointing’. The award is the second of its

THE government has announced a grant of £17 million so that freight trains running to Southampton Docks can be increased in length from 520m to 775m, which will allow an extra 14 containers to be carried on each train. Rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: ‘The injection of funding into the expansion

HS2 Ltd has announced that 412 new apprenticeships have been created on the project. The latest figures come just a month after main construction started on Phase 1 between London and Birmingham. Kate Myers is HS2 Ltd’s head of skills, employment and education. She said: ‘Apprenticeships with us, and companies within

Chris Milner concludes his interview with 100-year-old photographer Ron Buckley, who returned from wartime military service to a railway preparing for Nationalisation. AFTER leaving England in 1940 and serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, Ron returned home after demobilisation in 1945 after four-and-a-half years away – and to a very different railway. The

THERE are new calls for a further inquiry into the death of a Govia Thameslink employee who was ‘coughed at’ by a passenger and died soon afterwards from coronavirus. Belly Mujinga was working on the gateline at London Victoria during the morning of 21 March, when she and two colleagues were

The latest operator to be threatened by the coronavirus pandemic may be Eurostar. Sim Harris wonders how far our government would help.RAILWAY operators are now in a curious position, but they are not all in the same boat. The franchised TOCs are continuing to provide services as government contractors under the