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News 9 May
Date Greater Anglia will be nationalised is confirmed
Greater Anglia will be the third train operating company nationalised in 2025.
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News 9 May
HS2 CEO: "We only get one shot" at reset as he explains how project has become "discontinuous"
HS2 CEO, Mark Wild insists that the year-long “reset” can only happen once as he aims to turn around the beleaguered project.
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News 9 May
MPs lobby Network Rail to support open access Wrexham-London plan
Group of MPs serving communities along the route put their names to a letter supporting the plan.
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News 9 May
Rail Live 2025: the speakers confirmed for the UK's largest rail exhibition
Speakers including Lord Hendy and Sir Andrew Haines are set to speak at this year's Rail Live.
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Features 9 May
Holding out for a zero: why stations number platforms '0'
Andy Comfort finds out about a way to increase platform capacity without renumbering the whole station - and locates a few examples.
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News 8 May
Northern Trains publishes tender for 323s refurb
Northern Trains has put out a tender to refurbish its fleet of 17 (51 vehicles) class 323 trainsets, which it has taken from West Midlands Railway.
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News 8 May
West Midlands Metro: plans for east Birmingham extension revived as part of football club move
Proposal to relocate Birmingham City FC could lead to tramline extension
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News 8 May
Signal theft discovered by staff when trying to clear line for freight train
Signaller discovered fault with missing signal arm confirmed by passing freight driver.
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News 8 May
Bookings open for Coventry Very Light Rail tests
Bookings can made online for people to ride on the unit during tests during May and June.
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Opinion 8 May
Comment: The smallest things can compromise level crossing safety
Philip Haigh looks at the circumstances and chain of events that led to a collision at Redcar.
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News 7 May
Investment pipeline boom and bust the "worst supply chain has seen", industry bodies tell MPs
Representatives from Network Rail, Railway Industry Association and Rail Forum give evidence at Transport Select Committee.
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News 7 May
Network Rail unlikely to support any new West Coast Main Line track access plans - apart from one
Network Rail has said WCML performance is likely to worsen when already approved new services are added later this year.
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News 7 May
Minimum age for train drivers to be reduced from 20 to 18, government announces
Government confirms minimum driver age will be changed in law.
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News 7 May
Peak fares in Scotland to be permanently scrapped from September
Scottish government announces peak fares will be no more from September 1.
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Fleet 7 May
New turns for GWR Castle HST sets as part of May timetable changes
The operator's last remaining HSTs operate solely in Devon and Cornwall
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Features 7 May
Home front: Britain’s railway at war
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Richard Foster presents an overview of how the railway responded to the nation’s First and Second World Wartime needs.
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Opinion 7 May
Comment: HS2's high costs and a better planning regime for projects
Editor Dickon Ross on RAIL's coverage of the benefits of HS2 beyond the route itself.
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Fleet 6 May
Explained: Door problem that temporarily stopped Tyne and Wear's new Metro fleet
Five Class 555 units were taken out of traffic for more several days in April
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News 6 May
Signal fault delays Avanti West Coast's Euston-Glasgow record attempt
Signal fault in north London could not be fixed in time for earmarked date.
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Network 6 May
Full Island Line services resume after nine-month closure of pier
Ryde Pier had been closed to trains since September 2024.
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News 6 May
How a little-known regulation could hamper step-free access at stations
Regulation has been in place since 2014 and has been branded "absurd".
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Opinion 6 May
Railway 200: A new chapter in rail’s pioneering story
Alan Hyde, Marketing and Communications at Railway 200, introduces the first of a regular feature series celebrating 200 years of the modern railway.
Top Stories
Rail’s retirement challenge and the looming skills shortage
Nine per cent of people working on the railway left last year. Paul Clifton asks whether enough is being done to to fill the empty seats they leave behind.
Comment: Competition hots up on the Channel Tunnel route
Paths are available for trains to and from the continent, but maintenance facilities and stabling berths are in shorter supply, notes Philip Haigh.
Rail devolution… and integration
The English Devolution White Paper and the government’s rail reform consultation are together proposing a major shift of power from central to local government.
Guest Comment: Rail devolution under GBR
Will there be local control or a guiding mind, asks Rail Partners Chief Executive Andy Bagnall.
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