Network Rail is appealing for former professional signallers across the country to help keep the railway running during the coronavirus crisis. Network Rail is working hard to keep signal boxes and control centres across the region open round the clock. This allows key workers such as doctors and nurses to travel

Labour publishes ‘shadow rail white paper’ THE Labour Party is reported to be calling for public ownership of the passenger railway to continue after the coronavirus crisis is over, under the title ‘GB Rail’. Its recommendations come in the form of a ‘white paper’, of the type which governments use to

LNER restores trains to Hull LNER has stepped in to plug some of the gaps in the former Hull Trains timetable. The open access operator withdrew all its services from the start of this week as a result of falling demand. LNER had removed its Hull services as part of the

NEW direct awards have been agreed for First Group’s Great Western Railway and Govia’s Southeastern, where the existing franchises had been due to end at 02.00 on 1 April. GWR now runs for another three years, extendable to four, and Southeastern for up to two years. Both awards are management contracts for

HULL TRAINS has cancelled all its services between London and Hull from today. The move follows declining demand as result of coronavirus travel restrictions. There have already been sharp reductions in the timetables of franchised operators, and the Gatwick Express service of Govia Thameslink Railway has also ceased today. Franchised operators are

HULL Trains has taken the decision in what it calls ‘unprecedented circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic’ to temporarily suspend all train services from 00.01 on March 30 to safeguard the future of the business. Passengers with tickets for Hull Trains services will be able to travel on alternative train services on

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