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Increase in passenger journeys boosts rail revenues

‘Jacobite’ trains postponed as Central Door Locking dispute continues

Hynes takes two-year post as DfT’s rail director general

ASLEF announces new action as pay dispute drags on

AWC £600 deal for rest day working

RMT squares up to DOO ‘threat’ on newly electrified Barrhead line

Northern Ireland rail workers reject pay offer

Tube train drivers set strike dates

Fresh manager strikes at ScotRail

Croydon Tramlink strikes suspended

GWR puts trial fast-charge battery train into action

Rail expansion plan for Bee Network

HS2 railhead reaches material milestone

Nottingham Trams told to improve procedures

NR tests wires on Stalybridge route

TfL’s innovation plan for Bakerloo

Level crossing set to reopen

HS2 ‘green tunnel’ near Kenilworth secures planning approval

TfN calls for Avanti to be stripped of West Coast operation

High Speed 1 investigates St Pancras capacity expansion

Liverpool’s new transport director

Grange-over-Sands derailment closes line for two weeks

Council considers Tadcaster infilling

Big prices for ‘Castle’ nameplates

Docklands redevelopment driving force dies aged 90

Consultation for Boxing Day trains

Road closure as part of upgrade

News In Brief

SWR axes some advance fares but then changes its mind

Mayors want new Birmingham-Manchester Airport line

Fast-tracking for Liverpool-Manchester route

ETCS testing to begin on East Coast’s Welwyn-Hitchin section

Northern seeks staff new to rail

More Voyagers to join XC fleet

Intermodal traffic leads 4% growth in rail freight… but coal is a spent force

News In Brief

New platform in use at Dore & Totley station

Rail Minister heads list of speakers at Rail Live 2024

Weak bosses and staff blamed for Crossrail overspend

Problems… but still a massive success

NR tests emergency response with exercise

EWR’s next phase approved, but MPs question economic case

Supertram back to local control

New Siemens base

£60 million refurbishment for EMR’s regional fleet

Revamped Class 86s enter traffic in Bulgaria with Express Service

Porterbrook acquires Electrostar fleet for Great Northern

More ‘Peak’ names return on Class 60s

Class 60 moves to Margate museum

‘68s’ debranded for Beacon return

GBRf takes 50 new box wagons

New-build ‘Baby Deltic’ project closer to completion

Class 20s return in Railfreight grey

WMT prepares Aventra Class 730s for Cross-City Line

New lights for GBRf Class 66

LSL ‘Bubble car’ Flora visits SVR

News In Brief

Cash incentive boosts rail freight from Southampton

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