British Transport Police (BTP) is appealing for information following numerous railway trespass incidents on Sunday, May 5 as Flying Scotsman was operating on the national network. During the National Collection-owned locomotive’s journey across the East Midlands, a number of people illegally accessed the tracks near Burton on Trent and Tamworth attempting

FANTASTIC examples of rare British Railways station totem signs take centre stage at Railwayana Auctions UK’s next Stafford auction. The items come from important collections being dispersed from the Western, Midland and Scottish regions. Neil Booth, of Railwayana Auctions UK, said: “We have an excellent selection of totems, many of

GERMANY: Open access inter-city operator FlixMobility has opened ticket bookings for its third daytime FlixTrain route, with daily services between Berlin and Köln expected to begin on May 23. Single fares are available from €9·99. Journey times of between 5 h and 6 h will be around 3 h quicker than the existing Flixbus

Channel 5’s television programme about the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) will air on Friday, May 17 at 8pm. Season two of ‘The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard’ will include six episodes, which will go behind the scenes of the NYMR, meeting the staff and volunteers that keep the

SWITZERLAND: Swiss Federal Railways ran the first passenger-carrying service with one of its new Stadler Giruno trainsets on May 8, operating from Zürich HB to Erstfeld and then Basel SBB. Stadler is supplying 29 of the 11-car low-floor articulated trainsets under a SFr970m contract signed in October 2014. There are options

ITALY: South Tirol regional transport authority STA announced on May 7 that it had selected Bombardier Transportation for a €65·8m contract to supply seven electric multiple-units for use on through services from Malles Venosta to Bolzano and Innsbruck or Lienz in Austria. The Talent 3 EMUs will be similar to trainsets

CHINA: A consortium led by the Fosun conglomerate has agreed a 28·1bn yuan loan package with a group of banks to finance the construction of the first high speed line in China to be built and operated under a PPP concession. The 269 km Hangzhou – Shaoxing – Taizhou line is being

STAGECOACH Group is going ahead with legal action against the Department for Transport, after three franchise bids in which it was involved were rejected as ‘non-compliant’ by the Department last month.The decision to reject the bids also affected Virgin Trains and SNCF, who had been joint bidders with Stagecoach for

UK: Stagecoach Group commenced legal action against the Department for Transport on May 8, preventing the award of the next East Midlands franchise to NS subsidiary Abellio which had been named the preferred bidder on April 10. The initial 10-day standstill period had already been extended, and was due to