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The Department for Transport has placed Avanti West Coast on a short-term contract and challenged it to deliver the urgent increase in services required.
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
Wales Office Minister David TC Davies visits one of the Metro Plus projects under construction in the South Wales valleys.
RAIB has today released its report into a wrong side signalling failure and derailment at Dalwhinnie, Badenoch and Strathspey, 10 April 2021.
Have you considered a career as a Rail Accident Investigator?
Agreement of a new longer-term funding settlement between Transport for London and the government.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
RAIB has today released its report into a collision between road-rail vehicles near Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex, 2 May 2021.
Funding will also support modernisation and network upgrades.
RAIB has today released its report into a collision between a tram and a cyclist, near Audenshaw tram stop, Manchester, 1 September 2021.
The Memorandum of Understanding will boost business opportunities and allow sharing of expertise.
The government is funding upgrades at Oxford station that will result in quicker journeys.
RAIB has today released its report into a buffer stop collision at Kirkby, Merseyside, 13 March 2021.
The Secretary of State for Transport speaks ahead of rail strikes planned for today.
Historic breakthrough on London to Birmingham route.
Additional funding has been made available for the Transpennine route upgrade.
Major boosts to funding for rail route upgrades in the north.
The current Transport for London funding settlement has been extended to 28 July 2022.
RAIB has today released its report into a near miss between a rail grinding train and an empty passenger train at Sileby Junction, Leicestershire, 5 May 2021.
Birmingham, Crewe, Derby, Doncaster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and York will compete to be crowned the home of Britain’s railways.
Announces over £1 billion in investment to deploy the European train control system on a mixed-use mainline in the UK rail network for the first time.
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