In an open letter to new transport secretary Heidi Alexander RIA has welcomed signs of progress, including the government’s ...

The King’s New Year Honours list includes a number of railway people who have been recognised for their services to the ...

Trains and locomotives in Britain and many other countries sounded their whistles and horns at midday yesterday to mark the ...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander has sounded a note of caution over future open access services, and has issued new advice to the Office of Rail and Road, which decides whether to grant licences.

The charity Campaign for Better Transport has welcomed the Government’s plans to devolve more responsibility for train services to the English regions. A new White Paper says: ‘Mayors will be given a ...

A year-long festival of railways has started, to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the first passenger train to be hauled by a locomotive on the Stockton and Darlington Railway on 27 September ...

The number of people employed in the administration of DfT Operator, which runs nationalised passenger operators, is set to rise from 25 to 100 by the end of the coming year. DfTO was known as the ...

Train managers on Avanti West Coast who belong to the RMT are set to strike on three days over the Christmas period in a dispute over rest day working, and services will be disrupted on those days.

Network Rail will switch the large screen at London Euston back on tomorrow night. The screen had displayed advertisments but was left blank after protests about congestion and overcrowding which ...