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Haigh’s green light for Shadow Great British Railways

Price waiver aims to shift freight to rail

HS2 completes record-breaking 2.1-mile bridge

Network Rail considers Oxford’s Botley Road project options

NR: weather a primary factor in the increase in rail delays

Disruption updates to be broadcast automatically on DOO trains

Revised pay offer in Scotland goes to union vote

HS2 rejects cost claim on redesigns

Salisbury subway

GB Railfreight prepares for 2024 Tube stock movements

Records broken on Elizabeth line as passenger numbers rise again

Hitachi to unify TfW bookings

Minister in sacking row over Euston safety

Grand Central Class 180 reaches 125mph ETCS test speed on ECML

Cork twin-tracking set to begin

£1.2 million project to replace KWVR bridge span

New London Overground line names remain under wraps

Hyslop: GBR must not push Scotland backward

Hydrogen mooted as a route to net zero in Scotland’s Far North

Holyrood support for Clyde Metro

NR attends to tree hazards at Widnes

Survey says more trips being made

You can name an NR leafbuster train

Discontinuous third-rail idea for West of England line

Talks to safeguard Crossrail 2 route

TfL progresses West London Orbital plans

Tap-in tap-out comes to more stations near London

Dublin team gains Metro insights

Funds to speed up EU border checks

Good causes bid for LNER funds

Gerrard takes on GTR finance role

End for HSTs edges closer as ScotRail seeks new trains

Shunters move

New Class 93 tri-modes continue UK testing

Freight operators gear up for autumn leaf fall work

A heritage future for ‘rescued’ ‘20’?

Scottish HSTs head back north

News In Brief

Class 89 at Crewe for main line work

More Merseyrail ‘507s’ go for scrap

Repainted units gain GBRf livery

Main line return edges closer for Indomitable

Farewell charity railtour announced for West Midlands Class 323s

GC plans bi-mode trains and track access extension

Riviera Trains’ first modified coach released

Latest AWC ‘807’ arrives at Oxley

HS2 TBM passes halfway point at Bromford Tunnel

Regional News

In-app seasons for GTR passengers

Drones ‘nab’ teens targeting trains

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