TRAIN operators are increasing the number of services they run again from 6 July to accompany the latest easing of lockdown in England this weekend, and some are returning to a near-normal timetable. On Greater Anglia only Stansted Express and the London to Norwich main line service will still be

A NATURALIST who claims that building HS2 will cause irreversible destruction of ancient woodlands has succeeded in his bid to take his case to the Appeal Court. Chris Packham lost his bid to obtain an injunction and a judicial review in the High Court on 3 April this year. He

HUNDREDS of jobs are being created at HS2 Ltd as construction work on Phase 1 continues to be stepped up. The jobs include engineering, project management, land, property, procurement and various commercial posts. More than 300 of the new jobs will be based in Birmingham. HS2 Ltd CEO Mark Thurston

THE Department for Transport says it has received 50 bids for funding to help restore long-withdrawn railway services or stations, many of which were axed after Dr Richard Beeching had become chairman of the railways in 1961 and published his notorious ‘reshaping’ report two years later. Examples of bids include

TRAINS are calling today at Horden station on the Durham Coast for the first time since May 1964. The station is not far from the post-war new town of Peterlee and will serve a catchment area with a population of 70,000. It has an hourly train service from today in each

PLANS to reopen the station at Soham, between Ely and Kennett, have won planning permission for Network Rail from East Cambridgeshire District Council. The funding has come from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, and enabling works should now start this autumn. The rebuilt station will include a 99m platform, long enough

LNER was given a further Direct Award on 26 June which will extend its contract for at least another three years and up to two years beyond that. The contract has been run by the DfT’s Operator of Last Resort since June 2018, following the collapse of Virgin Trains East

If there was any remaining doubt about the survival of the established rail franchises that doubt was put to rest by transport secretary Grant Shapps on 24 June. What is not yet confirmed, writes Sim Harris, is the future shape of the passenger railway. WE do have a fairish idea. Keith

GLASGOW SUBWAY operator Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has sounded a warning about the Subway’s finances as a result of the pandemic, and members of SPT are meeting today to discuss the growing cash crisis. SPT said it had been calling on the Scottish Government’s Transport Scotland for help since the lockdown

THE Class 33s – A Sixty Year History will be published by Crecy on July 30, and The Railway Magazine has three signed copies to give away. Author Simon Lilley details in-depth the background and history of this versatile, popular and successful Type 3 locomotive, which included a fleet of 12