Demand for rail travel has reached two-thirds of normal levels for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, new figures have revealed. Data from the Department for Transport shows the number of journeys made on the UK’s mainline rail network on August 23 was at 66% compared with

Photo: Network Rail Network Rail’s Southern region has invested over £1.8 billion in the railway to support the country in its mission to ‘build back better’ so passengers can feel confident and safe when they return to travelling by train. Even at the height of the pandemic, Network Rail was working to

Florence – the largest ever tunnel boring machine used on a UK rail project – unveiled at the HS2 site in West Hyde near Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. Ministers have been urged by a business organisation to “put an end to any lingering uncertainty” over HS2. Photo: PA Media Ministers have been

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of years out and about with his ABC Combined Volume and his camera at various rail-related locations up and down the country. Living in the middle of the country enabled young

Like so many youngsters in the 1950s and 1960s, Alan Clarke was a keen railway enthusiast and spent a number of years out and about with his ABC Combined Volume and his camera at various rail-related locations up and down the country. Living in the middle of the country enabled young

THE RMT says it is adopting a 'war-footing' in its 'campaign against a cynical and opportunist wave of post-Covid cuts to jobs and services on Britain's railways'. The union is predicting that service reductions planned by ScotRail and South Western Railway 'are set to be mirrored across the network'. Conductors on ScotRail

Department for Transport (DfT) figures show the number of journeys being made by train in Britain is approximately 57% of what it was before the coronavirus crisis, while car use has fully recovered. It is widely reported that more people than ever have taken to buying used motors for solo, Covid-safe

THE RMT is demanding a rethink over planned timetable reductions in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. South Western Railway has calculated that demand for commuting and business travel will stay lower, at least for the foreseeable future, but this will be offset by a small increase in leisure travel. It has

TRAINS are running again between Ely and Peterborough after the collision between a train and a tractor at Kisby level crossing near March last week. Both the train and tractor driver received minor injuries, but Network Rail said ‘significant’ damage was caused to the railway when the train’s locomotive collided with

ANOTHER leak has raised concern still further that the eastern leg of HS2 is unlikely to be built in the foreseeable future. Although the western leg between London and Manchester is progressing, with construction underway on Phase 1 to Birmingham, the government has been declining to make any commitment to Phase 2b