THE former soldier who took over a disused military depot and converted it into a major railway test centre has been included in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Colin Flack, who has been awarded the OBE, retired from the army in 2010 with the rank of Colonel, took over the derelict Royal

A NORTHERN train driver who worked as a paramedic after the COVID-19 outbreak started has been included in the Queen’s Honours List. Jolene Miller from Stockton-on-Tees receives a British Empire Medal for services to the NHS. The medal is given in recognition of service to the community which can include charitable or

We’ve teamed up with one of the UK’s leading railway artist James Green GRA to offer you an outstanding prize worth £330! The winner will receive a collection of SIX mounted limited edition prints of their choice from the artist. Each hand signed and numbered limited edition print will be double mounted

The Severn Valley Railway is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a lifesaving financial boost from the government, thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The Railway was preparing to welcome the Minister for Sport, Tourism and Heritage Nigel Huddlestone MP, who will meet the

THE RMT union has warned that its second 48-hour strike on Caledonian Sleeper is set to go ahead on Sunday, having accused the sleeper operator SERCO of a ‘point blank refusal to engage in talks with union officials over the fundamental issues of fatigue and safety’. The union said it had

Empty trains: Winning back customer confidence is proving challenging for the rail industry. Photo: Chris Milner The number of passengers using the UK’s railway has fallen to its lowest levels in around 170 years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Official statistics released by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) reveal that

THE number of people travelling by train has fallen back to levels last recorded at the end of the 1850s, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. New statistics from the Office of Rail and Road have revealed that 35 million journeys are estimated to have been made in the first

DOUBTS are growing about the future of the eastern branch of HS2 to the East Midlands and Yorkshire, after rail minister Andrew Stephenson said the government was ‘considering the best approach to get the most benefit for Leeds, the North East, and the East Midlands’, while also ‘prioritising development of the

A DEPOT in the West Midlands where a driver was killed between two trains had been ‘operating at or beyond its capacity at night’, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. The driver had walked between the stabled trains at Tyseley depot on 14 December last year, ‘almost certainly’ unaware that

A DEPOT in the West Midlands where a driver was killed between two trains had been ‘operating at or beyond its capacity at night’, according to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch. The driver had walked between the stabled trains at Tyseley depot on 14 December last year, ‘almost certainly’ unaware that