Photo: PA News A “forensic focus” is required to complete Crossrail within its revised budget and timescale, an inquiry has found. In a report, the London Assembly Transport Committee urged Transport for London (TfL) and mayor Sadiq Khan to ensure “past mistakes are not repeated”. Related articles It recommends they keep a tight

Photo: PA News Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has told a Transport Select Committee that the HS2 project will be vital for enabling people to meet each other unless teleportation becomes a reality. Mr Shapps continues to back the high-speed rail project despite the collapse in demand for travel caused by the COVID-19

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 takes you behind the scenes with the Royal Train, plus the COVID-19 pandemic leaves Eurostar on the brink of collapse. Here’s what

The February issue of The Railway Magazine has some great prizes which must be won. The first prize in a Hornby PB/GBRF NHS-branded Captain Tom Moore Class 66 No. 66731 limited edition, donated by Porterbrook. The second prize is the DVD of Britain’s Railways – The Golden Age of the ‘Big Four’

TRAIN services on the West Coast Main Line between London and Rugby are expected to be disrupted until mid-February after the landslip at Hillmorton, just south of Rugby. An Avanti West Coast driver reported a dip in the track on 27 January, and that the ground appeared to be moving. As Network

HS2 CHAIRMAN Allan Cook has resigned, several months before his appointment was due to end. The Department for Transport said Mr Cook will leave at the end of July, rather than staying until the end of the year. Mr Cook said: ‘As we enter a new phase of the project, the Department

T9 30120 Harmans Cross Swanage Railway. Photo: Andrew PM Wright The Swanage Railway have announced an agreement with the National Railway Museum for their LSWR T9 steam locomotive No. 30120 to remain on the Swanage Railway. The agreement will see the locomotive, built in 1899, stored at the Swanage Railway following expiry

THE protestors who have tunnelled under the gardens outside Euston station in London to highlight their opposition to HS2 say the security staff who are trying to evict them have started their own tunnel. The protestors say the eviction officials have been boring a vertical tunnel under Euston Square Gardens in

THE introduction of ‘flexible’ season tickets valid for fewer than five days a week must wait until the pandemic eases, said rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris. He has also conceded that the March fare rises are intended to help reimburse taxpayers for the financial support the franchised operators have received since

SOME trains between London Euston and Rugby have been diverted via Northampton, adding half an hour to journey times, after Network Rail was alerted yesterday by a driver to problems at Hillmorton Junction, south of Rugby. Network Rail said hourly tests show the ground is moving underneath several tracks at Hillmorton. West