THE new transport commissioner for London has been named as Andy Byford, who will join Transport for London on 29 June. The present commissioner Mike Brown will stay for a handover period until 10 July. Mr Brown will then move on to take up a new posiition overseeing the renovation

THE new transport commissioner for London has been named as Andy Byford, who will join Transport for London on 29 June. The present commissioner Mike Brown will stay for a handover period until 10 July. Mr Brown will then move on to take up a new posiition overseeing the renovation

TRAINS and stations on Govia Thameslink Railway are being treated with a new disinfectant which should give protection from Covid-19 for up to 30 days. Staff are using an app which will tell them when an individual vehicle was last cleaned, while GTR has also ordered 1,000 no-touch hand sanitisers for

BOMBARDIER is reported to be asking for ‘contractual charges’ to be suspended because the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted production for a while at Litchurch Lane in Derby, where 2,000 people are employed. The charges, which are normally levied for late delivery of new trains, amount to some £20 million a month.

TRANSPORT SECRETARY Grant Shapps has responded to calls from city mayors and promised another £29 million to support trams and light rail outside London. His announcement also included a further £254 million to keep bus services running. The Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham had warned that without a further injection

THE first phase of Wolverhampton’s new station has opened as part of a £150 million interchange for trains, trams and buses. The railway station was already close to the existing bus station, and an extension of the tramway from the original terminus at St George’s will also bring trams to

In spite of the present problems, the Department for Transport is moving ahead with plans to reopen some railways – or at least, to fund more detailed proposals. Sim Harris has been looking at some newly-published DfT ‘Guidance’, and finds that it lacks some details. THE Department for Transport rather

Cambrian Heritage Railways (CHR) has acquired a pair of Class 144 Pacer diesel railbuses from Porterbrook leasing. Nos. 144006/7 travelled under their own power by rail to Gobowen from the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on Friday, May 22, saving four separate lorry moves. <img data-attachment-id="14806" data-permalink="https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/14804/pacers-delivered-to-gobowen-for-cambrian-heritage-railways/chr-pacer1/" data-orig-file="http://en.railsistem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pacers-delivered-to-gobowen-for-cambrian-heritage-railways.jpg" data-orig-size="899,586" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}"

TRAIN operating companies and Network Rail have joined forces to issue a strong appeal to passengers over the Bank Holiday weekend: please don’t travel by train. Some services will be disrupted in any case by Network Rail engineering possessions in various parts of the country, but the Government is also

 A GRANT of just over £3.5 million to boost the development of North Wales Metro has been announced by the Welsh Government. The funding is part of £30 million being allocated to nearly forty local transport improvements in Wales. The Metro money, £3.531 million, will be used for 10 schemes