A LONG battle by engineers to electrify the Severn tunnel between England and Wales has been won at last, completing the electrification of the Great Western Main Line between London and Cardiff (Caerdydd). The 6.5km tunnel has always been a difficult part of the railway to manage, partly because more

THE transport secretary Grant Shapps has announced that a face covering will be compulsory on all public transport in England from 15 June. He has also said that passengers on trains, trams, buses and ferries who ignore the new rule will be fined. Labour shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said: ‘This is

THE Office of Rail and Road has published the first statistics which include the early weeks of the lockdown. As expected, the number of people travelling by train fell ‘dramatically’ in March, reducing the total figure for Quarter 4 (January to March) by 51 million compared with the same quarter

FORMER Angel Trains CEO Malcolm Brown is to take up the reins as CEO at the train leasing company once again. Present CEO Kevin Tribley, who succeeded Malcolm ten years ago, is retiring on 1 September. Malcolm said: ‘I am delighted to be back with the business, and to continue

Belly Mujinga, mother to an 11-year-old daughter, died after testing positive for coronavirus. Photo: Family Handout British Transport Police (BTP) says no further action will be taken in relation to the death of Belly Mujinga, who contracted COVID-19 after being spat at while on duty at London Victoria station. Belly Mujinga, 47

THE executive chairman of French company Keolis has been sacked. Keolis, which is partly owned by SNCF, has a 35 per cent stake in Govia and therefore the Govia Thameslink Railway and Southeastern franchises, plus an ‘Operator and Development’ partnership with Amey at Transport for Wales. In a statement issued

THE former head of property at HS2 is calling on the government to offer ‘compensation, vindication and a formal apology’ to whistleblowers who lost their jobs after warning that estimates of costs were inadequate, according to The Times. Doug Thornton, 52, said he was forced out of his job in

NEW investment has been announced by GB Railfreight, which is planning to build more intermodal sidings at Peterborough with Balfour Beatty and Network Rail. At the same time it is making progress with a new control room, three classrooms, a board room and staff welfare rooms at Peterborough as the

D1s, built by Ganz-Mávag in Hungary, date from 1960. Here, D1 No. 717-1 pulls away from Doslidna at 08.55 on May 12, 2017, forming train No. 6314 from Mykolaiv to Tymkove. Mark Darby takes a trip to the former Soviet country of Ukraine – an adventure which presented him with more