With new and refurbished trains on the way, a rolling programme of electrification, and a devolved Government committed to further expansion, Scotland is showing other regions of the UK how to deliver a better railway. Ben Jones met ScotRail Alliance MD Alex Hynes to find out what is in store

Network Rail ready to tackle ‘leaves on the line’ and keep passengers moving safely and reliably this autumn with 61 leaf-busting trains and 80 leaf-busting teams. Regarded as the railway’s equivalent of black ice on the roads, leaves on the line can create issues when they stick to damp rails and

NETWORK RAIL has announced the start of a further public consultation about a new station in suburban Cambridge. Plans have been developed in principle for Cambridge South, which would serve Addenbrookes Hospital and could also be a calling point for trains on East West Rail in a few years from now. The station

THE review of the railway industry which has been led by Keith Williams is still being kept behind closed doors. Sim Harris argues that it is time to publish what he has to say. ON 1 October, rail minister Chris Heaton-Harris gave a written Commons answer to MP Tanmanjeet Singh

The Science Museum Group is set to launch a major new exhibition which charts the global impact of the world’s longest and most famous rail journey – the Trans-Siberian Railway.  Announced on October 5 – the anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916 – a major new exhibition will be unveiled

A hydrogen-powered train has travelled on the UK rail network for the first time. Porterbrook and the University of Birmingham welcomed Transport Secretary Grant Shapps aboard HydroFLEX, the UK’s first hydrogen-powered train, as it started operational trials on the mainline railway. Today’s trials of HydroFLEX, which have been supported with a £750,000

Photo: HS2 HS2 is to host a webinar to explain more about the habitats created in the West Midlands and Warwickshire. Around 250,000 trees will be planted in the West Midlands and Warwickshire by HS2’s enabling works contractor LMJV (Laing O’Rourke and J. Murphy & Sons Ltd) and their team of ecologists

Train punctuality on Scotland’s Railway has reached its highest level since 2018, according to new figures. In the most recent four-weekly period of performance (23 August – 20 September), 93.3% of ScotRail trains met the rail industry standard Public Performance Measure (PPM). It’s the seventh consecutive period where ScotRail’s PPM has

Making a splash: It was a relatively simple invention yet it revolutionised long-distance train travel for more than a century. Consultant Editor Nick Pigott dips into the subject of water troughs. IT’S a hot summer’s day in the steam era and you are relaxing in a Pullman car speeding along the East Coast

St. Pancras International becomes the first railway station in the world to launch state-of-the-art cleaning robots in a bid to minimise the risk of COVID-19 to travellers. From September 23, the mobile autonomous robots – designed to kill viruses and bacteria both on surfaces and in the surrounding air – will