Phil MarshAndrew Haines joined the railway in 1984, at a time when British Rail was reshaping itself – not in the sense of the Beeching closures, but changing its structure radically for the first time since the 1948 nationalisation by preparing to abolish the Regions and replacing them with ‘businesses’. This

The RMT has declared a dispute with Network Rail over pay and is calling for talks. Network Rail, whose chief executive Andrew Haines retires from the company today, said it is ‘disappointed’. The RMT has calculated that cumulative RPI inflation has risen by around 27 per cent since 2021, while Network Rail

A new design of station clock which includes the railway’s double arrows and the time in digital format has been unveiled at London Bridge station.The London timepiece by WPP brand design agency Design Bridge and Partners was the winning entry in an international design competition run in a partnership between

An electric train has run under test on the East Kilbride line for the first time. The Class 380 train travelled along the newly electrified line over the night of 13 October, with engineers on board to check the overhead line equipment. The testing phase part of the £144 million East Kilbride

Great Western Railway services between Bristol and Weston-super-Mare will be affected by engineering work this weekend. The disruptive effect of an engineering possession will be made worse by more industrial action on CrossCountry on Saturday, as the RMT dispute over pay for overtime and rest day working continues. As a result,

The RMT is to hold a strike ballot at Eurostar in a dispute over safety and and working conditions The union claims that staff ‘face worsening working conditions with unreliable trains, poor service recovery and operational safety concerns, piling pressure on the workforce’. Eurostar revenues were £1.7 billion last year, but the

Greater Anglia became the latest private sector operator to return to public ownership at 02.00 yesterday morning, as part of the Government’s programme to reunify passenger railways. The first renationalised train was the 04.10 from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport. GA will be followed by West Midlands Trains, which operates

Another former franchise is to pass back to public ownership on Sunday morning, when Greater Anglia will be taken over by DfT Operator. Greater Anglia was created in 2004 by combining Anglia Railways, First Great Eastern and the West Anglian routes of WAGN. The new franchise was won by National Express,

One of the operators which wants to operate open access international trains between London and continental Europe has named a train builder and a leasing company as its partners. Gemini Trains says it is working with Siemens and Rock Rail so that it can run services between London, Paris, Brussels and

Network Rail has published details of engineering work which is scheduled to take place over Christmas and New Year, disrupting services on some lines. Major projects include replacing a junction at Hanslope on the West Coast Main Line, which will mean no trains between Milton Keynes Central and Rugby between Christmas