The Department for Transport’s consultation into Great British Railways closes tonight, and FirstGroup has made a final plea for open access services to continue. First owns the open access operators Hull Trains and Lumo, and has acquired the licences for new open access services between London ...

Network Rail was prepared for disruption affecting steel production, it has emerged, after a weekend in which Parliament passed a Bill allowing the government to take control of the British Steel works in Scunthorpe. Network Rail had built up an emergency stock of rails which would meet its needs ...

Network Rail was prepared for disruption affecting steel production, it has emerged, after a weekend in which Parliament passed a Bill allowing the government to take control of the British Steel works in Scunthorpe. Network Rail had built up an emergency stock of rails which would meet its needs ...

Dec 4, 2024 · South Western Railway will be the first private passenger operator to be renationalised under the new Passenger Railway Services Act, the Government has confirmed.. The former franchise, which is currently a National Rail Contract, was to have expired on 28 May 2023 but was extended by a Notice of Variation to 25 May 2025 and will end then.

3 days ago · The Department for Transport’s consultation into Great British Railways closes tonight, and FirstGroup has made a final plea for open access services to continue.. First will lose its former franchises South Western Railway, Great Western Railway and Avanti West Coast under the government’s renationalisation plans, with South Western set to be the first to return to public ownership next ...

1 day ago · Work to improve the railway with an investment of £86 million is being carried out by Network Rail at 300 worksites over the long Easter weekend.. In the south of England the junction at Battersea will be rebuilt. The work will include 6km of new signalling and comms cables, while new signalling will be installed at Lewisham.

New figures say almost one in three rail passengers are commuters. The number of railway passengers travelling to work has reached 30 per cent, according to the Department for Transport, which says commuting also tends to be concentrated on …

Feb 18, 2025 · The future ‘directing mind’ Great British Railways has been described in more detail than before as part of a consultation launched today by the Department for Transport.. Key points include that ‘passengers will travel on GBR trains, running on GBR tracks, and arrive at GBR stations – all run by the expert leadership of a single organisation in line with a clear strategic direction ...

Mar 24, 2025 · The contest to provide competing services through the Channel Tunnel is warming up. A new contender has been announced, led by a long-standing critic of HS2. Gemini Trains has applied to the Office of Rail and Road for an open access licence to operate between London and Paris, with other routes planned to follow.

Mar 14, 2025 · Questions unanswered The private sector lobby group Rail Partners will close its doors in a week from now, and has published a final paper which looks at devolution, entitled Great Local Railways. The DfT has launched a consultation about Great British Railways which runs until April, and Rail Partners chief executive Andy Bagnall said: ‘The consultation seeks to address some of the ...