The West Midlands Trains National Rail Contract held by Transport UK Group will come to an end at 02.00 on Sunday morning, when the individual brands of West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern will be taken over by the state. The change will be the latest in a series of renationalisations

Train services in Devon and Cornwall are set to be disrupted by floods into next week, Great Western Railway has warned, as forecasters predict more rain to come. There are still no trains between Exeter and Okehampton or Barnstaple, and GWR has issued a ‘do not travel’ warning, because road conditions

An overhead line fault near Salford Quays in Manchester disrupted Metrolink services on the Eccles line during the morning of 30 January while repairs were carried out. TfGM said there was no service between Eccles and Pomona, and trams were running only between Ashton-under-Lyne and Deansgate-Castlefield until about 14.00. Staff helped passengers

An overhead line fault near Salford Quays in Manchester is expected to disrupt Metrolink services on the Eccles line until further notice while repairs are carried out. TfGM said there is no service between Eccles and Pomona, and trams will be running only between Ashton-under-Lyne and Deansgate-Castlefield. Staff are helping passengers in

A branch in West London will become the first GWR route to be served by a battery train on 31 January. Saturday services on the West Ealing to Greenford line will be provided from now on by the specially converted Class 230 unit, which was originally part of a D78 stock

Transport for London has unveiled an ambition to take over the Great Northern inner suburban services between Moorgate, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage, by including them in the Overground network. The proposal has been outlined the draft of TfL’s latest Business Plan, covering the next five years, which will be considered

Euston station in London is back on the high speed agenda, after the first of two tunnel boring machines began its subterranean journey from Old Oak Common to the Euston Road. This section has been mired in a controversy which was even greater than over the rest of the project, because

Train services in south west England are not expected to return to normal before the weekend, National Rail has warned. Storms Ingrid and Chandra, which GWR described as ‘back to back’, caused severe flooding in parts of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, while after heavy seas had damaged a sea wall, a

Train services in parts of Wales as well as in southern and south west England are being delayed or cancelled as a result of Storm Chandra. Replacement buses are running in Devon and Cornwall because the lines to Okehampton, Barnstaple and Newquay have all been flooded, while there are speed restrictions

Northern has revealed that it is planning to buy up to 450 trains, but it has not confirmed how they will paid for. The acquisition is set to be managed in three phases, the first of which will include about 130 trains. Northern invited final tenders from manufacturers in November, and