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Redcar Central Level Crossing. RAIB.

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Train Collision with Car due to Signalling Error, RAIB Report Finds

A signalling error where the signaller forgot the level crossing gates were open was the cause of a passenger train collision with a car, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has found.

RAIB 3 Apr

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Derby to set out plans for rail campus

Details of the planned Rail Campus Derby will be revealed at an event in the city in October.

Derby 23 Aug

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RIA: rail offers jobs, income and social opportunities

Job opportunities, higher wages and huge time savings are among the principal social and economic benefits that the rail industry can deliver for Britain

14 Nov

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Rail staff encouraged to take on the Samarathon challenge…

Samaritans has launched its annual virtual ‘Samarathon’ fundraising event, to encourage supporters from the rail industry to get active this summer.

12 May

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Rail staff encouraged to join the Million Hour Challenge

“I’ve seen and felt the impact of suicide on a personal level and understand the importance of the work the Samaritans does," - Ian Prosser CBE

23 Mar

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Railway urged to keep pace with society

Industry can embrace change and lead through challenges or watch from the sidelines warns RDG's Paul Plummer

28 Nov

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EXCLUSIVE: Industry must be prepared to assume responsibilities, says DfT’s Kelly

“If the Department for Transport steps back, the rail industry must be ready to step forward" - Bernadette Kelly

10 Jul

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Evidence paper compares UK network with others

Research shows UK is second busiest of major European rail networks as William Review looks abroad to understand ownership and operation

20 Mar

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Rail worth £36 billion per year to the UK - report

New report breaks down value of rail to the UK economy.

27 Feb

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EU vote: Stay or leave - the impact on UK rail

With the UK rail industry heavily affected by any decision on whether to remain in the EU, RAIL delves into the issues for our industry

20 Jun

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Perry: ‘sharpen your project-cost pencils and make every pound count’

Rail Minister warns of "three big challenges" that rail must overcome

8 Jul

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Victoria breaks into Liverpool Street station

Second Crossrail tunnel boring machine breaks into Liverpool Street

12 Mar

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Greenwood proposes rail “guiding mind”

Labour proposals for new over-arching rail industry body become clearer.

16 Feb

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Rail Supply Group launches vision statement

‘Strategic vision’ to meet demands of the railway of the future.

22 Jan

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LNER Azuma 800104 and ScotRail Inter7City HST 43145 stand in Aberdeen station. CONRAD LANDIN.

Scottish main line will "end up with discontinuous electrification"

Electrification 14 Jul

Artist's impression of a Class 222 in Lumo colours. LUMO.

FirstGroup explains why Class 222s were "only option" for Lumo Euston-Stirling service

6 Jun

DB Cargo UK 66139 shunts wagons at Cemex's Dallam Freight Depot, Warrington. DAVID STUBBINGS.

16 DB Cargo UK drivers switching to rival

DB Cargo UK 11 Jul

The sliding canal bridge at Keadby has required numerous repairs and maintenance in recent years, including a nine-day closure in February 2024. It failed 16 times between April 2024 and March 2025. NETWORK RAIL.

Repeated bridge failures force TPE to consider diversionary route

TransPennine Express 21 Jul

90021, hauling the 1610 Deepcar-Finsbury Park ‘Last Chance’ charter (which it worked from Doncaster RMT), stands at Peterborough on April 8 2023. The ‘90’ has been acquired by Freightliner from DB Cargo. PIP DUNN.

DB Cargo sells three more Class 90s for reuse

DB Cargo UK 7 Jul

An East Midlands Railway Class 222 approaches Braybrooke on the Midland Main Line. PAUL BIGGS.

Further MML electrification and York capacity projects paused

Midland Main Line 8 Jul

Stored SWR Class 701s and former West Midlands Railway Class 323s at Long Marston. JACK BOSKETT/RAIL.

UK "fails to provide trains people want or like"

Rail Live 2 Jul

Off-lease 221104 passes Wellington as part of a driver training run between Central Rivers TMD and Wrexham. ALISTAIR COX.

All three West Coast Main Line open access bid rejected

Open access 3 Jul

An enforcing regulator that is independent of the government will be needed to protect the interest of sectors such as open access and freight, says one industry source. Colas Rail 70813 passes Plawsworth (near Durham) on the Wast Coast Main Line on September 17 with the 1541 Jarrow Prax to Lindsey Oil Refinery Colas empty bogie tanks. PAUL BIGGS.

Drivers' jobs safe after refinery owners enter administration

Colas Rail 8 Jul

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