Two sites in Derby have made the final shortlist for a new Great British Railways HQ. They are city centre brownfield site ...

New plans and images for East West Rail have been unveiled, including the possibility of running up to five trains an hour ...

The era of telephones at signals is coming to an end, the RSSB has announced. They were originally provided so that train ...

A leaked government review of the plans to build a tram network in Leeds has concluded that buses would be cheaper. The ...

Railnews is taking a break for Easter, and we will be back on 8 April. The April print edition of Railnews will be published ...

A West Midlands passenger service which was withdrawn as a wartime economy measure in January 1941 is running again. Although ...

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A leaked government review of the plans to build tram lines in Leeds has concluded that buses would be cheaper. The Labour mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin had promised to get ‘spades in the ...

Network Rail chair Lord Hendy CBE has been named as a minister of state in the Department for Transport. Peter Hendy, 71, started his career in public transport in 1975 as a graduate trainee with ...

The number of people employed in the administration of DfT Operator, which runs nationalised passenger operators, is set to rise from 25 to 100 by the end of the coming year. DfTO was known as the ...

ScotRail has cancelled all trains tomorrow in the face of a predicted storm which could include gusts of 160km/h. The effects of Storm Éowyn are now likely to be worse than had been thought, and the ...

Virgin Group will be able to run international services from London through the Channel Tunnel as the result of a decision by the Office and Rail and Road to allow it to use Temple Mills depot, which ...