THE RMT is stepping up its campaign to prevent the closure of ticket offices at three London Overground stations, and a reduction in opening hours at 45 more.According to the union, the ticket offices are set to close entirely at Brondesbury, White Hart Lane and West Hampstead, while another 45

THE Severn Valley Railway and Kidderminster Railway Museum will benefit from an auction of nameplates from a number of Class 390 Virgin ‘Pendolino’ sets.  Virgin’s tenure of the franchise ends on December 8, with nameplates and nose crests from the front of the sets being removed and auctioned off.

By Ben Jones HS2 Ltd has advised the Government the first phase of High Speed 2 to Birmingham could open five years later than planned in 2031, and the overall cost of the project could rise to £88billion. An artist’s impression of the new Curzon Street

THE first steps in the re-creation of one of H P Stewart’s LMS-NCC ‘W’ class 2-6-0 have been taken by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) with the cutting of the locomotive’s 33ft-long main frame plates. The machined plates were delivered to Whitehead on August 29 from Cooke Bros

Vivarail trains for Isle of Wight as part of £26m investment by Phil Marsh THE unique Island Line will remain a heavy rail-operated route thanks to an investment worth £26million to cover new trains, a new passing loop, new platform height, and other infrastructure changes.  The news

UNION Pacific ‘Big Boy’ No. 4014 went for a short test run on September 20. The 16-mile return run to Speer, from its base at Cheyenne, Wyoming, was carried out by Ed Dickens, senior heritage operations manager for UP. The journey was designed to check the minor adjustments

SNOWDON Mountain Railway (SMR) has named Clayton Equipment Limited, specialists in bespoke hybrid battery-diesel locomotives, as preferred supplier of replacements for its Hunslet 0-4-0DH locomotives.  Two new locos will be supplied next spring to enter service for the start of the 2020 season. The new hybrid 800mm-gauge

By Ben Jones GREATER Anglia (GA) has confirmed it will not be able to introduce its Class 720 ‘Aventra’ EMUs before the end of 2019.  Production and testing of the new trains is running significantly behind schedule after Bombardier experienced delays with the introduction of Crossrail Class

Two rail workers were killed by a train in Port Talbot. Photo: Adam Hale/PA Wire Two rail workers were killed by a train while there was no official lookout in place, a report has found. Michael Lewis, 58, and Gareth Delbridge, 64, died while carrying out engineering work for Network

LNER launched its first passenger services on the East Coast Main Line on May 15, using the Hitachi-built Class 800 ‘Azuma’ express trains as part of a rolling programme to replace both its Class 91 and Mk4 and HST fleets. The ‘Azuma’ will replace LNER’s entire fleet of