Posted 9 hours ago by Railpage System User
The UK’s Network Rail has resumed services between Derby and Matlock after completing £13m of railway upgrade works in Derbyshire.
Posted 12 hours ago by Railpage System User
Ahead of HS2 Limited beginning construction of a train maintenance depot in Washwood Heath, demolition of a former railway works in Birmingham has begun.
Posted 14 hours ago by Railpage System User
This post is prompted by reading a short set of notes about the Penydarren Tramroad carried in the Railway Magazine in March 1951.
Posted 15 hours ago by Railpage System User
Almost a year ago (March 2018), BrizCommuter wrote a blog post on the looming Cross River Rail Fail - #CRRrailfail. Unfortunately, not much has improved during the last year. Thus Cross River Rail Fail has edged another year closer to yet another public transport debarcle. So what are the problems that will impact the opening of Cross River Rail?
Cross River Rail (CRR) is currently scheduled to open in 2024, and the above service plan for Cross River Rail is proposed for 2026 (am peak). The current state of play shows that this may not be possible due to the following:
Posted 16 hours ago by Railpage System User
The National Railway Museum’s archive holds many undiscovered treasures. Our most recent cataloguing project tackles the papers of Kenneth Cantlie (1899-1986), an engineer who carved an international career designing locomotives, coaches, bridges and railway lines in far-away places such as China, India and Argentina.
Posted 16 hours ago by Railpage System User
New £80m sea wall planned in Dawlish to protect trains from waves
Posted 21 hours ago by Railpage System User
The Network Rail archive is the custodian of a vast collection of historic documents and plans relating to today’s railway infrastructure.
Posted yesterday by Railpage System User
Greater Manchester has been an integral part of The Great North Rail Project - multi-billion pound improvements in the north of England.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
The opening date of the Elizabeth line may have been pushed back to “whenever”, but signs to the new tube line are popping up across the network.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
One of London’s oldest train depots has recently become home to its newest fleet of trains — for the Elizabeth line — and I’ve been given a look around the huge site.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
Outline proposals for a ‘radical’ reform of the rail ticketing system in Great Britain were published by the Rail Delivery Group on February 18.
Posted 2 days ago by Railpage System User
What are track circuits? How do they keep the railway safe? And why do they sometimes delay journeys?
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
The Talyllyn Railway has announced that it has had the best year for passenger numbers in over a decade.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Angel Road, London’s second quietest train station is set to close in May, the Department for Transport has announced. With just over 33,000 passengers in 2017/18, it’s beaten to the bottom spot only by South Greenford station’s 26,500 passengers.
Posted 3 days ago by newsbot
A man who was stood completely naked in the aisle of a commuter train was removed by police as shocked passengers looked on.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
Between Sunday 17th February and Sunday 3rd March, Northern are allowing children to travel free when travelling with an adult.
Posted 3 days ago by Railpage System User
The ‘Easier Fares for All’ proposals – delivered in partnership between the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) and Transport Focus – explains how updates to regulation would enable the transparent, simpler to understand fares system people want, backed up for the first time by an industry ‘best fare guarantee’.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
Balfour Beatty has secured a contract worth around £220m from Transport for London (TfL) to deliver London Underground track renewal works.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway Preservation Society has announced that they have received the Coiley Locomotive Engineering Award at the Heritage Railway Association awards.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
Coastline resilience is crucial to a safe railway.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
Stagecoach Group has secured a short-term contract extension to continue operating passenger services for East Midlands rail in the UK.
Posted 4 days ago by Railpage System User
As part of a wider programme of investment in operational fleet by Network Rail’s Route Services directorate, the full service refurbishment programme goes beyond business-as-usual maintenance, overhauling and modernising the ploughs to the highest specifications. The work will ensure the ploughs maintain and improve their effectiveness for the next 15 to 20 years.
This announcement comes after a competitive tender in which Loram UK was selected as Network Rail’s delivery partner to carry out the overhauls and reengineering at the rail fleet specialist’s Derby facility.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
A consortium of Dalmore Capital and Equitix Investment Management has signed agreements to acquire 3i Infrastructure’s one-third stake in Cross London Trains Holdco 2 Ltd.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
IR’s prototype Train 18 semi-high speed EMU was formally launched into revenue service by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a ceremony at New Delhi station on February 15.
Posted 5 days ago by Railpage System User
Leeds is one of Yorkshire’s biggest cities and is sure to be a city to benefit the most with the arrival of HS2, increasing and improving the transport links to Birmingham, London and the East Midlands.
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