The railway line between Aberdeen and Dundee is due to reopen next week after a fatal crash near Stonehaven. It has been shut since August 12, when a ScotRail service struck a landslip, causing the train to derail. Driver Brett McCullough, conductor Donald Dinnie and passenger Christopher Stuchbury died in the crash.

Thousands of train passengers complained about ticketing and refunds following the coronavirus outbreak, new figures show. Analysis of industry data by the PA news agency shows around 10,000 complaints relating to coronavirus were dealt with between April and June. This was when many passengers claimed pay outs for tickets they could no

Civil rights pioneer Dr Paul Stephenson is to have a train named in his honour to celebrate Black History Month. Dr Stephenson, 83, who was born in Essex to a West African father and British mother, served in the RAF before moving to Bristol in 1960, where he became the city’s

THE Prime Minister has been sent a letter by a coalition of organisations, calling on him to end his government’s ‘attack’ on Transport for London. The letter, signed by 13 organisations representing London’s transport workers, passenger groups, children, young people, students, pensioners, disabled people and anti-poverty campaigners, condemns the government for

Passengers at some of Britain’s biggest and busiest railway stations can now benefit from new, free and unlimited WiFi. A key part of Network Rail’s plans to put passengers first, the new WiFi service has already gone live at Victoria, Euston and London Bridge stations. It is due to be rolled

East Midlands Railway’s new Intercity fleet has been named Aurora – chosen from more than 2,000 competition entries. The Aurora fleet includes Japanese bullet-train technology and will provide fast, comfortable and state-of-the-art journeys between London, Sheffield and Nottingham from 2023. Aurora matched EMR ethos Aurora appealed to the judges because of the name’s

Passengers in Cumbria are being advised to plan their journeys next month when Network Rail upgrades track near Bootle station. On five consecutive Sundays from November 15 to December 13, buses will replace trains between Sellafield and Millom. The £2.3m Great North Rail Project investment will involve replacing over 4,000 metres

NETWORK RAIL has been awarded a tender by Cornwall Council for a scheme to upgrade the railway network in central Cornwall, which would mean improving the infrastructure on the Newquay branch and introducing through services between Newquay, St Austell, Truro and Falmouth under the title of Mid-Cornwall Metro. The two bodies

The North Norfolk Railway has invested in special measures to ensure the highly popular Santa Specials and the Norfolk Lights Express trains can continue to operate this Christmas. The Santa Specials will operate from every weekend from November 28 until December 18, then daily up to and including Christmas Eve. There are

TIME is running out for a new funding settlement for Transport for London, amid increasing crossfire between the government and TfL over what the ‘price’ of a settlement should be. The Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants driverless trains to be a condition of any payment, but a newly-leaked report prepared by