Railway services are returning to normal this morning after a weekend of high winds brought by Storm Amy. Trains in England and Wales are no longer disrupted although some lines were blocked by fallen trees for a time, but no services are expected to run today north of Dingwall to Kyle

The RMT is calling on Transport for London not to renew a £700 million cleaning contract which involves more than 2000 staff. The union claims that the Mayor may have been misled by his advisors at TfL, who had told him that it was too late to halt a re-tendering

A Caledonian Sleeper service is to start calling at Birmingham International from January, connecting the West Midlands with the Scottish Highlands. The new service is being welcomed as a boost to tourism. It will be the first major change to a sleeper route since the Night Riviera between London and Cornwall ceased

The RMT is considering an improved pay offer from Transport for London for its 10,000 members on London Underground. TfL is attempting to end the dispute which led to disruptive strikes earlier this month by proposing a three-year settlement which would mean an increase of 3.4 per cent in the first

The Department for Transport has revealed that the latest train operator to be given a date for renationalisation is Govia Thameslink Railway. The change, which will take effect on 31 May next year, will renationalise one operator but four brands of Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Southern and Thameslink. It was already known

The Railway Image. What does that mean to you? Some people may think of the steam express crossing Glenfinnan on its magic journey from Platform 9¾, or perhaps of that famous blue tank engine with a smiling face. But the real railways were – and are – an essentially utilitarian business, carrying

A warning has been issued by Network Rail in advance of this weekend’s special trips along parts of the original Stockton & Darlington Railway to mark the 200th anniversary of the first journey by paying passengers on a steam-hauled train. The historic journey had been made on 27 September 1825, with

Northern is using a new weapon to keep autumn leaves at bay, as the leaf fall season arrives. Leaves are falling earlier this year, following the very warm summer. The problem of leaves on railways is well known, because they are compressed into a slippery film by train wheels which then

Efforts to rescue HS2 are being supported by inviting technical specialists to produce innovative ideas, and applications have opened today. HS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Wild is in charge of a comprehensive review of the struggling high speed project, which has been cut back more than once and now consists only