THE Department for Transport has agreed to provide financial help for Transport for London until next year, but the agreement has not been reached without a price. In the second of two essays, Sim Harris looks at the effect politicians can have on the business of running transport services.‘I would

Photo: Adam Hale/PA Wire Network Rail’s long-term failure to improve safety was an underlying factor in the deaths of two track workers in South Wales, an investigation has found. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said that, over “many years”, the Government-owned company “had not adequately addressed the protection of track workers

THE company building East West Rail has taken the next step towards procuring a new fleet of trains for the Western Section of the route between Oxford and Bedford, which will be the first part of the line to reopen in full. At the moment, trains run between Oxford and Bicester,

THE final Rail Accident Investigation Branch report into the deaths of two Network Rail track workers at Margam in South Wales in July last year has made eleven recommendations. The two men were hit by an express train, and a third who was with them had a narrow escape. Earlier reports had

WORK is continuing at the site of a freight train derailment at Sheffield early yesterday morning which left a number of cement tankers off the rails and blocked five of the station's eight platforms. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has sent inspectors to the scene and their inquiries are continuing, but

A FREIGHT train has become derailed at Sheffield station. Points and signalling have been ‘significantly’ damaged by the overnight incident, said Network Rail, which is warning that five of the station’s eight platforms are blocked. Many trains are being cancelled or delayed, although there are no reports of any injuries. Network Rail workers

MORE train operators are planning to reduce their service levels in response to continuing Covid restrictions. Reductions are expected on ScotRail from 13 December, when it is proposing to withdraw around 270 trains a day, or some 10 per cent of the pre-Covid service. Some reductions have already been made, and

Construction has begun on a new and bigger sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway and town from rising sea levels and extreme weather for the next 100 years. In 2014, a storm caused a stretch of the Devon coastal railway to collapse into the sea – cutting off the

The life and work of an ingenious engineer, Colonel Stephens, who inspired Britain’s preserved railway sector is celebrated in a new publication written by Heritage Railway magazine editor Robin Jones. Colonel Holman Fred Stephens acquired legendary status at the end of Britain’s great Victorian age of railway construction by establishing new

A pop-up exhibition has opened in London Victoria station to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the journey and burial of the Unknown Warrior. A series of panels created with the National Army Museum in Chelsea explains to passengers the story of the Unknown Warrior, a century after his body was carried