In the fifth in our series of railway writers and artists, the life of the great communicator and railway historian supreme is recounted by Robert Humm. George Dow was a man of many parts. Professionally he was a career railwayman for his entire working life, much of it spent in public

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A LETTER which was widely reported to contain an offer from the China Railway Construction Corporation to build HS2 within five years has been disowned by the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, who commented that the original reproduction of a letter in Building magazine amounted to ‘fake news’. However, there

Rail passenger groups and union leaders are staging protests today, calling for the Government to keep Northern Rail under public control. The northern franchise was taken away from Arriva Rail North on Sunday after months of complaints about poor service and commuter chaos. The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union said the franchise had “collapsed” after years

NORTHERN has a new managing director, following yesterday’s changeover from Arriva to the Department for Transport’s Operator of Last Resort. The franchise was renationalised after almost two years of poor performance, caused by several factors, and because it was no longer ‘financially sustainable’, according to transport secretary Grant Shapps. The new md

THE Northern franchise operated by Arriva Trains North passed back into public ownership in the small hours of Sunday morning. The franchise is now being run by the Operator of Last Resort, which is a subsidiary of the Department for Transport. Northern has been terminated after a long period of poor performance

Police evacuated a major railway station in Paris after a fire engulfed multiple vehicles and sent a large cloud of black smoke over the surrounding neighbourhood. Officers said the fire was under control by nightfall on Friday but flames could still be seen rising from the street near Gare de Lyon

A new £20 million fund to build new railway stations and restore some that were previously closed has been announced by the Department for Transport. The fund is part of the Government’s £500 million drive to reverse the Beeching cuts of the 1960s. Some 5,000 miles of track were closed with the

A NEW station has opened in Worcestershire. The first train to call at Worcestershire Parkway yesterday morning was the 08.28 GWR service to London. Work on the site, which includes a 500-space car park, began in 2018. It has a single platform on the North Cotswolds Line and two platforms on the