Latest Rail News

Network Rail engineers have fixed the embankment where a train derailed one month ago on the Lancaster to Barrow-in-Furness line, restoring services.

An innovate UK-funded project is looking to revolutionise the way infrastructure assets on the world’s railways are managed with automated pantograph and overhead line anomaly detection.

£400M will be invested in Scotland’s railways over the next five years to improve its resilience against climate breakdown-driven extreme weather, but the Scottish Government has meanwhile revoked its emissions goals.

High Speed 2 (HS2) main works contractor EKFB has begun construction of the foundations for a road bridge to take the A43 over the under-construction railway.

Long-standing £89.5M plans to improve road access to Crewe station by dualling a stretch of the A500 have returned to the drawing board as the cancellation of High Speed 2 (HS2) north of Birmingham has undermined the scheme’s business case.

Emergency pairs have been completed by Network Rail near Edenbridge in Kent and in the Conwy Valley in Wales, both of which were the consequence of wet weather.

Options are being explored to expand the South Yorkshire Supertram network now that it is under the ownership of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Symca).

The Railway Industry Association (RIA) has revealed its blueprint for achieving a net zero railway in the UK by 2050, which aims to maximise current government infrastructure plans.

East West Railway Company (EWR Co) chief executive Beth West has announced that she will move on from her post “after much reflection”, having been in the role for two years.

Plans to improve train services between Belfast and Dublin have received a €165M (£141.9M) boost to bring a new fleet of electrified trains.