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Great Western Railway has named a driving car 'Shania Train'

Avanti West Coast’s first Hitachi ‘Evero’ bi-mode trains entered passenger service on June 2. Ben Jones takes a close look at the new Class 805s

South Western Railway has put the first of its refurbished Class 458 Coradia Juniper trains back into passenger service on suburban routes.

Pip Dunn reports on a project to provide low-cost, low-emission shunting locomotives, using the Class 08 as a starting point

Locomotive Services Limited’s Royal Scot arm and the Scottish Railway Preservation Society have entered into a partnership that will enable the SRPS’s Mk 1 coaching stock to be upgraded with central door locking (CDL), thereby ensuring its long-term survival on the main line.

Avanti West Coast's iconic Pendolino fleet is back on track, following its record-breaking £117 million refurbishment project. The last completed train rolled out of Alstom's Widnes facility on Monday, marking the successful conclusion of the UK's biggest ever fleet upgrade.

Almost a year after arriving in the UK, Rail Operations Group’s new Stadler tri-mode locomotive 93001 finally undertook its first main line solo run on May 28, from Worksop to Sheffield and back.

"In my opinion driving a double-decker bus in London is a much tougher job than driving a train on the main line railway"

Former Virgin West Coast manager Chris Gibb is putting forward a radical alternative to the cancelled HS2 route between Birmingham and Manchester, writes Peter Plisner

Southeastern is inviting five train manufacturers to negotiate to replace “as soon as possible” the operator’s 30-year-old Networker fleet that run metro services in London.