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News 3 Dec
Latest digital signalling tests deemed a 'success' after weekend closure of East Coast Main Line
Network Rail has said the tests bring programme of allowing trains on part of the East Coast Main Line to be controlled by digital signalling from late 2025 a step nearer
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News 3 Dec
TransPennine Express starts electric-powered running between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge
The Transpennine Route Upgrade has allowed for electric running out of Manchester Victoria on services heading towards Yorkshire
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News 3 Dec
Tunnelling machines to take HS2 to Euston unveiled - work set to start next year
Work on boring the tunnels that will take. HS2 to London Euston is set to start in 2025
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News 3 Dec
Avanti Class 807s among latest new trains to enter traffic across the network
Avanti West Coast, South Western Railway and Greater Anglia are amongst the operators to bring new units into service in recent weeks
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Opinion 3 Dec
Opinion: York’s North Eastern Railway memorial gleams for its 100th
A couple of hundred people gathered at York’s railway war memorial on a bright but nippy November 11.
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News 2 Dec
Northumberland Line opening date confirmed
Services on the Northumberland Line will begin this month, with one intermediate station opening at first
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News 2 Dec
Office of Rail and Road inundated with more than 80 track applications
The ORR is shifting through more than 80 track applications after putting out a call for bids earlier this year
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News 2 Dec
Freight operators considering tests for converted ‘769’ bi-mode units
Two freight operators are looking at undertaking a series of tests involving Class 769 units, with ScotRail also understood to eventually be assessing them too
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News 2 Dec
GWR gifts HST power car to preserved railway for cosmetic restoration
The power car has been moved to the Plym Valley Railway, along with another which will be broken up for spares
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News 2 Dec
Departure times for CrossCountry's Cardiff-Edinburgh service confirmed
CrossCountry's new service starts in December, more than 30 years after the last direct train linking the two cities
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Insight 2 Dec
The latest blow to Portishead’s reopening hopes
After the new government’s axing of Restoring Your Railway funding, will trains ever run along the line to Portishead? Andrew Mourant reports.
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Opinion 2 Dec
Opinion: How to tackle fare evasion
Now the regulator is to review protection practices and prosecutions process, our Industry Insider looks at the issues around fare evasion.
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News 29 Nov
Northern set to reduce Sunday timetable in December after unions reject offer
Northern is asking passengers to plan ahead as it prepares to introduce a reduced timetable next month
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News 29 Nov
More Class 325s go for scrap but Royal Mail is open to selling remaining units
More Class 325 EMUs have been sent for scrap, but Royal Mail has said some of its units are for sale
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News 29 Nov
West Midlands transport review recommends major changes to help deliver projects on time and on budget
Delays and cost overruns have affected several projects, prompting the new Mayor of the West Midlands to order the review
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News 29 Nov
Plans for new Integrated Transport Strategy announced
As one on her last acts as Transport Secretary, before her resignation over a previous criminal offence, Louise Haigh launched the beginning of an integrated National Transport Strategy which it is hoped will kick-start a revolution in local transport networks.
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Opinion 29 Nov
Ticket offices and value in staff redeployment
Cost pressures are bearing down on the rail industry as revenue rises but not at a fast enough rate to cover the £2 billion gap between operating subsidy and income
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News 29 Nov
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after admitting misleading police over stolen phone
Louise Haigh resigned from the Government on Thursday evening after the conviction, dating back 10 years, was reported
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Fleet 29 Nov
Freightliner monitoring tests on tri-mode Class 93s as potential replacements for diesel locos
Freight operator keeping a watchful eye over testing of the tri-mode locos, two of which are in the UK while the other eight remain in Spain
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Features 29 Nov
Around the UK on an all-line rover ticket and nearly 80 trains
In part three of our series, PAUL BIGLAND completes his seven-day Rail Rover tour of the rail network.
Top Stories
Opinion: This is how we can make ticketing simple and transparent
Christian Wolmar reckons he has a simple plan to sort out the network's confusing fares structure and ticketing anomalies.
Heidi Alexander announced as new Transport Secretary following Louise Haigh's resignation
New Transport Secretary was Deputy Mayor for Transport in London under Sadiq Khan
Analysis: GBR is now in motion… but change will be a slow process
In the build-up to July’s General Election, we presented a seven-point manifesto for rail. Howard Johnston assesses progress with point 1: Great British Railway.
London site earmarked for rail freight campus which will create up to 5,000 jobs
Plans to transform Bow Goods Yard site into a rail freight campus and last-mile logistics hub have unanimous backing
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