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Ticketless travel will be available from almost half of main line stations in and around London from September 23.

ScotRail is to restore its full timetable from Monday 7 October for the first time since a temporary timetable was introduced on 10 July.

The Scottish government has announced that the procurement process is under way for new rolling stock to replace its InterCity 125 High Speed Trains.

Transport for London says it is close to completing a feasibility study for its proposed 11-mile West London Orbital project.

Two of ScotRail’s HST power cars have returned to Scotland.

The Office of Rail and Road has released its latest quarterly passenger and freight rail performance reports which showed a slight decline in performance across the network for the passenger performance but a marked improvement for freight in the three months of April to June.

A freight service linking two of the largest container ports is to double to two trains a week.

Gary Essex reports on the trains helping the Ukrainian war effort - the Médecins Sans Frontières Hospital Train and the Warren Buffett Foundation Food Train.

‘Islands’ of third-rail electric power are being assessed for the West of England line between Basingstoke and Exeter.

The government is providing £3.5 million each to Eurotunnel at Folkestone and Eurostar at St Pancras, to prepare for the EU’s new digital Entry/Exit System which is due to start on November 10.