GB Railfreight has started another tranche of Class 99 testing with the new bi-mode locomotives visiting Felixstowe for the first time.

For more than a decade, battery-electric trains have hovered around the UK rail industry like a half-remembered promise. Always technically plausible, often politically attractive, but rarely allowed ...

The newly merged South Western Railway and Network Rail Wessex Region have been accused of an “accumulation of failings”, ...

If your rail or community group or partnership is organising a photographic competition, then RAIL would love to hear from ...

The new Transport for Wales rail vision includes dozens of plans for the Welsh rail network. These include schemes which the UK government has already said it will back, such as improvements to ...

HM Chief Inspector of Railways has stepped in to speed up work to resolve incidents of overspeeding, having been concerned ...

Train services to Barnstaple from Exeter have returned after being suspended for several weeks due to storm damage. Initially, the delays in reopening the line until river levels reduced so divers ...

Transport for the North’s (TfN) Rail North Committee has recommended a series of short-term infrastructure projects that it says should be completed as part of the TransPennine Route Upgrade to ensure ...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has authorised Northumberland Park in North Tyneside to open to passengers, marking the fifth of six stations to be delivered under the Northumberland Line project.

The first of an additional weekday service from Peterborough to London King’s Cross begun today (February 16).

Powered by six lithium iron batteries with fast-charging equipment installed at either end of the 2.4-mile-long line, the ...