The RMT is to hold a strike ballot at Eurostar in a dispute over safety and and working conditions The union claims that staff ‘face worsening working conditions with unreliable trains, poor service recovery and operational safety concerns, piling pressure on the workforce’. Eurostar revenues were £1.7 billion last year, but the

Greater Anglia became the latest private sector operator to return to public ownership at 02.00 yesterday morning, as part of the Government’s programme to reunify passenger railways. The first renationalised train was the 04.10 from London Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport. GA will be followed by West Midlands Trains, which operates

Another former franchise is to pass back to public ownership on Sunday morning, when Greater Anglia will be taken over by DfT Operator. Greater Anglia was created in 2004 by combining Anglia Railways, First Great Eastern and the West Anglian routes of WAGN. The new franchise was won by National Express,

One of the operators which wants to operate open access international trains between London and continental Europe has named a train builder and a leasing company as its partners. Gemini Trains says it is working with Siemens and Rock Rail so that it can run services between London, Paris, Brussels and

Network Rail has published details of engineering work which is scheduled to take place over Christmas and New Year, disrupting services on some lines. Major projects include replacing a junction at Hanslope on the West Coast Main Line, which will mean no trains between Milton Keynes Central and Rugby between Christmas

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