CROSSRAIL will not provide through trains under London linking the east and west suburbs at first, although the predicted costs of the project are set to rise again by as much as £650 million to more than £18 billion.The phased opening, now set to occur in 2021, will mean initial

The proportion of people travelling between London and Glasgow by rail rather than air has reached a record level, according to Virgin Trains. Some 29% of passengers making the journey between England and Scotland’s biggest cities in the 12 months to July chose to travel with the train company

Floods still causing problems in north of EnglandFLOODS in the north of England are still disrupting train services on some lines. Rotherham Central will probably remain closed to trains and tram trains until tomorrow, and because roads in Rotherham have also been closed by floods there are no rail replacement

THE number of passengers using trains rather than planes between London and Glasgow has reached a new record, according to Virgin Trains.The operator said rail had a 29 per cent share of the traffic during the 12 months to July this year, and that annual passenger numbers on the route

Heading north to Amsterdam: Thalys quad-voltage TGV set 4345 on the high-speed line just south of Rotterdam on September 13, 2018, about to go under the Oude Maas river tunnel.  KEITH FENDER International high-speed operators Eurostar and Thalys announced plans in late September to merge the two companies to create

A LOCOMOTIVE that has spent more than 20 years out of the public eye will steam again after being acquired by James Bunch. Wigan Coal & Iron Co Ltd 0-6-0ST Lindsay is the sole-surviving locomotive built by the company, and was once a familiar sight at Steamtown, Carnforth, during the

DELIVERIES of new DMUs and EMUs to Northern by CAF are running late, although the company introduced a further nine Class 195s over the Calder Valley line between Leeds and Chester via Manchester and Warrington in October.  It takes the number of ‘195s’ in traffic to 29, exactly half the

LNER launched its new Lincoln to King’s Cross ‘Azuma’ service on October 21, increasing the single daily service to five per day.  A sixth service will be introduced at a later stage.  A five-car bi-mode ‘Azuma’ will provide a two-hourly Monday to Friday service departing London at

Walkway for the new Elizabeth Line at Bond Street Station in central London. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire The boss of the company building Crossrail has confirmed the railway will not open next year and has run even further over budget. Crossrail will not open next year and its cost has increased

Photo: Crossrail Crossrail will not open next year and its cost has increased by up to £650 million, the firm building London’s new east-west railway has admitted. Mark Wild, chief executive of Crossrail Ltd, insisted services would begin “as soon as practically possible in 2021”. He revealed the bill for