East Coast

News

“Timely decisions” needed on East and West Coast timetable plans

Urgent decisions are needed if major timetable improvements are to be delivered as planned to the East and West Coast main lines.

19 Apr

News

RIA blasts DfT: 900 days and no contracts update

April 8 marked 900 days since the Government last updated its Rail Network Enhancements Pipeline (RNEP).

12 Apr

News

LNER to reinstate full timetable from February 14

LNER has announced a return to its full pre-COVID timetable from February 14. A full catering offer has also returned

3 Feb

News

Wylde leaves role as Lumo MD

Helen Wylde has stepped down as managing director of Lumo, to take up a post outside the rail industry.

13 Jan

News

NR wants industry to benefit from King’s Cross lessons

Lessons learned from the £260million King’s Cross remodelling project could serve as a blueprint for how disruptive works are carried out at other stations

19 May

News

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The future face of franchises is shrouded in uncertainty

Chris Grayling wanted to run the East Coast franchise as a public-private partnership, but problems around responsibilities, trust and risk must be resolved

16 Aug

News

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Class 91s...promise unfulfilled

With the first Class 91 withdrawn, DAVID CLOUGH delves into the gestation of the 140mph locomotives

27 Jul

News

Nationalisation: “a dead-end argument”

Former train operator and top Railtrack/Network Rail executive MICHAEL HOLDEN explains why he believes a fully public railway won’t work.

20 May

News

ON THIS DAY: 'Thunderbirds' Class 47s launched

22 years ago today (November 23 1993), Intercity launched East Coast trains 47/520 and 47671/3/5 at Kings Cross

23 Nov

Feature

Eight years on - East Coast loses its way

HOWARD JOHNSTON travelled on the final southbound GNER service from Aberdeen to London in December 2007, and did the same with East Coast a few weeks ago

TOCs 18 Mar

News

First Virgin East Coast trains

Virgin East Coast announces its first trains this weekend

26 Feb

Feature

Sign on for the Neville Hill nightshift

RICHARD CLINNICK spends the night at the busy Leeds depot, and discovers a hive of activity as trains are maintained and prepared

Locomotives 21 Jan

News

Network Rail releases report into Christmas engineering overrun

A report into the problems that caused the effective closure of King's Cross and Paddington stations on December 27 has been released.

12 Jan

Feature

From poisoned chalice to Holy Grail?

RAIL magazine examines the troubled history of rail operations on the East Coast Main Line since privatisation in the mid-1990s

Regulation 7 Jan

News

East Coast remembers the Fallen at Edinburgh

Latest East Coast ceremony remembers the Fallen at Edinburgh Waverley

16 Dec

News

East Coast deal confirmed

Department for Transport confirms it has officially signed East Coast rail franchise contract with Inter City Railways

10 Dec

Gallery

East Coast 91111 - For The Fallen

The naming of a Class 91 to mark the centenary of the First World War.

3 Dec

News

Stagecoach and Virgin awarded East Coast franchise

Eight-year deal for Inter City Railways, a joint venture of Stagecoach Transport Holdings Ltd and Virgin Holdings Ltd. New franchise begins March 1 2015.

27 Nov