The London Transport Museum is appealing for donations towards maintaining its future as it looks to reopen in the autumn. The museum, which was forced to close its doors in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has announced losses of £1.5 million and counting. London Transport Museum needs you It costs £25,000

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THE Crossrail board has admitted that the Elizabeth Line cannot open as soon as next summer. The section across central London should have been launched in December 2018, but the project has been the victim of repeated delays. These have been attributed to various factors, including problems with software. The coronavirus pandemic

NEXUS has been granted a further £20 million by the government for modernising Tyne & Wear Metro. The funding will be used for further infrastructure renewals, including track and overhead line replacements, after the main £350 million Metro ‘all change’ programme of major upgrades that started in April 2010 ends next

THE physical distancing minimum on ScotRail trains and stations will come down to one metre from Monday. ScotRail and Network Rail will introduce the new measure following the publication of the Scottish Government’s updated guidance on 2 July. ScotRail warned that the capacity of its trains will still be ‘significantly reduced’. Operations

Improvements to rail services in the north of England will get a £589 million kick-start, the government has announced. The cash injection will go towards electrifying the line between Manchester and Leeds, and doubling the number of tracks on the most congested sections in and around Leeds and Huddersfield. The most congested

While many transport companies look to external agencies and specialists to develop and maintain their brand and image, some undertake the activity in-house. Virgin Trains was one of the companies that until recently had its own design unit. Steven Knight speaks with creative designer Sam Jessup, whose artistic talents were

THE Department for Transport has announced a budget of £589 million to launch work on upgrading the Transpennine main line between Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester. A Northern Transport Acceleration Council is being set up today, which will be ‘dedicated to accelerating vital infrastructure projects and better connecting communities’ in the north

ALSTOM and Eversholt Rail are investing another £1 million in the development of British hydrogen-fuelled trains, which will be produced at Alstom’s Transport Technology Centre in Widnes.   The trains, branded Breeze, are converted from ex-British Rail electric Class 321s, and will form a new Class 600 series. They will emit

THE price of Crossrail has risen by another £140 million, and rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris described the further increase as ‘very disappointing’. It also seems likely that completion of the project will be delayed yet again. The extra funding is needed to complete the surface sections in east and west London,