Additional charges for rearranging advance railway journeys disrupted by COVID-19 regulations will be scrapped, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced. The DfT said the new measures will ensure passengers affected by changing levels of restrictions across the UK will not be left out of pocket. The new temporary measures mean those

The number of women applying to be train drivers at the UK’s biggest rail operator has doubled thanks to recruitment and marketing campaigns. Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which runs Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express services, said 825 women had applied to be trained as a driver so far this

Passengers who bought Advance tickets have been angered by the refusal of train operators to recompense them when they could not travel as a result of a lockdown. The government, which controls the policy on this, has now given way and says that unused Advance tickets can be rebooked for

PROTESTS from passengers who were unable to use Advance tickets because of lockdown restrictions but simply lost their money when they did not travel on the booked date have been heeded by the Government. Although cash refunds will still not be given, passengers holding these tickets will be able to rearrange

ONE of the lines to Stratford-upon-Avon has been closed after a bridge on the route from Birmingham via Henley-in-Arden was found to be damaged. Network Rail said there could be no train services for the time being at Wootton Wawen, Henley-in-Arden, Danzey, Wood End, The Lakes, Earlswood, or Whythall. Replacement buses

ENGLISH tram and light rail systems outside London are getting more financial help, as passenger revenues continue to sag as a result of coronavirus restrictions. The latest award from the Department for Transport is worth up to £67.8 million, bringing the total funding for trams and light rail to more than

Updated 10.43THE Welsh Government has announced that the Transport for Wales concession which has been run by KeolisAmey since 2018 will be handed over to public ownership, in response to sharply lower revenues caused by the Covid-19 pandemnic. Day to day rail services will become the responsibility of a new publicly

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THE funding debate at Transport for London has reached crisis proportions, as the Mayor of London hit out this morning at ‘draconian’ government plans to increase fares by more than RPI+1 per cent, extend the Congestion Charge Zone to the North and South Circular roads in a year from now