The long-awaited opening date for the Northumberland Line has been confirmed. Services between Newcastle and Ashington will ...

The ORR is shifting through more than 80 track applications after putting out a call for bids earlier this year ...

Two freight operators are looking at undertaking a series of tests involving Class 769 units, with ScotRail also understood ...

After the new government’s axing of Restoring Your Railway funding, will trains ever run along the line to Portishead? Andrew Mourant reports.

Northern is set to introduce a reduced Sunday timetable in the North West after conductors rejected an offer to work on ...

Cost pressures are bearing down on the rail industry. Revenue is rising, but not fast enough to cover the £2 billion gap ...

Heidi Alexander has been named as the new Transport Secretary, following the resignation of Louise Haigh. Haigh stepped down ...

As one on her last acts as Transport Secretary, before her resignation over a previous criminal offence, Louise Haigh ...

Louise Haigh resigned from the Government on Thursday evening after the conviction, dating back 10 years, was reported ...

In part three of our series, PAUL BIGLAND completes his seven-day Rail Rover tour of the rail network. Architectural highlights and restored railways: A journey celebrating unique railway architecture ...

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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