Flybe free rail travel offer extended nationwide AN offer of free rail travel for passengers and airline staff stranded by the Flybe collapse has been extended to all rail operators in Britain, and will continue until 11 March. Passengers whose journeys were interrupted by the sudden ending of Flybe flights may

Britain’s best-selling rail title The Railway Magazine is back for another month of award-winning photos, news, features and exclusives from the rail industry, past and present. This month’s The Railway Magazine features the all important news that HS2 has been given the green light, plus the Department for Transport takes control

TRAIN operators have offered free travel today for Flybe passengers stranded by the airline’s collapse overnight. Staff from the airline can also travel without charge. Flybe has gone into administration after a financial rescue attempt staged earlier this year finally failed. Many flights from regional airports have been cancelled, and passengers are

 A TV naturalist is launching a legal challenge to HS2, following the overturning of plans to build a third runway at Heathrow by the Court of Appeal on environmental grounds. The Court ruled that the government’s plans for the new runway were illegal, because they did not take into account the

TransPennine Express md leaves at short notice THE managing director of TransPennine Express Leo Goodwin will be leaving TPE tomorrow. FirstGroup said he would now be pursuing ‘opportunities outside the Group’. First Rail managing director Steve Montgomery added: ‘I would like to take this opportunity to thank Leo for his contribution

In the fifth in our series of railway writers and artists, the life of the great communicator and railway historian supreme is recounted by Robert Humm. George Dow was a man of many parts. Professionally he was a career railwayman for his entire working life, much of it spent in public

An official portrait of railwayman and author George Dow.  The life of the great communicator and railway historian supreme, George Dow, is recounted by Robert Humm. George Dow was a man of many parts. Professionally he was a career railwayman for his entire working life, much of it spent in public relations

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A LETTER which was widely reported to contain an offer from the China Railway Construction Corporation to build HS2 within five years has been disowned by the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, who commented that the original reproduction of a letter in Building magazine amounted to ‘fake news’. However, there

Rail passenger groups and union leaders are staging protests today, calling for the Government to keep Northern Rail under public control. The northern franchise was taken away from Arriva Rail North on Sunday after months of complaints about poor service and commuter chaos. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said the franchise had “collapsed” after years