Photo: HS2 Ltd The search for contractors to design, build and maintain almost 300 state-of-the-art lifts and escalators for HS2’s four major new stations has begun. 168 lifts and 128 escalators will need be fitted in the high speed rail project, providing easy access to hundreds of thousands of people who will

The story of London’s little-known narrow gauge underground line Keith Fender visits the latest and most unusual tourist attraction to open in the capital.  THE Post Office Railway (named Mail Rail in 1987) was a 6½-mile (10.5km) long,  2ft- (610mm) gauge automated electric railway that opened in 1927 to move mail between

NOW: One of the new Mail Rail passenger trains in the boarding area. All pictures: KEITH FENDER Heritage Railway visited the latest and most unusual tourist attraction to open in the capital.  The Post Office Railway (named Mail Rail in 1987) was a 6½-mile (10.5km) long,  2ft- (610mm) gauge automated electric railway

Covid 19 dents Eurotunnel revenues THE coronavirus crisis started to affect Eurotunnel’s earnings last month, and new figures for the first quarter of this year show that its revenues dropped back to €200 million. Earnings from Eurostar and rail freight fell by 8 per cent, and Shuttle income was down by

METRO Mayors in the north west of England are urging the Government to provide emergency funding to local transport systems within ‘days, not weeks’. The Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has warned that Metrolink trams in his city are losing more than £5 million a month. Although services have been

SR Merchant Navy Pacific No. 21C11 General Steam Navigation passes Clapham Junction with the ‘Devon Belle’ in August 1947. Photo: COLOUR-RAIL.COM SR 3 / P. Hughes In a historical review of locomotive engineers, Heritage Railway magazine highlights the career of Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid, who succeeded REL Maunsell in 1937. When Richard

Hundreds of retired signallers respond to Network Rail appeal NETWORK RAIL has reported that hundreds of former signallers have responded to its appeal for help during the national emergency. Retired signallers were asked to return to duty while other staff needed to step down temporarily to self-isolate. The returning staff were

‘Received Sept ’35’ said the pencilled note on the back of this truly classic photograph by H. Gordon Tidey in The Railway Magazine’s’ archives. It shows No. 6203 ‘Princess Margaret Rose’ heading the down ’Royal Scot’ at Bushey and picking up an excess of water! The Railway Magazine Archive | April

MAYORS in provincial cities are urging the Government to provide rescue funding for their local rail and tram systems. National Rail franchises let by the Department for Transport were suspended in March in favour of simple no-risk management contracts, while bus companies have been promised up to £397 million to maintain

THE traditional morning and evening peaks on the railways might never be restored in full, it is being claimed. Transport secretary Grant Shapps has predicted that ‘the world will probably not go back to how it was before in a whole manner of different ways’. He told the BBC that business