A railway safety body has issued a reassurance about plans to cut the minimum age of train drivers from 21 to 18, in a bid to boost their numbers. Almost a third of the present workforce are due to ...

Peak fares will be abolished on ScotRail in September, after a previous trial ended last September on the grounds that it had not attracted enough extra passengers to balance the books. At the time, ...

The RMT is calling for outsourcing – the use of contractors to provide services like cleaning and catering – to be abolished on the railways. A new report from the union called ‘How outsourcing embeds ...

The latest work meant that the Victorian pier, which provides a link with ferries to the mainland, had been closed since ...

Transport for London is vowing to crack down on ‘blatant’ fare evasion on its trains, such as pushing through Underground ticket gates. The team of dedicated investigators is being enlarged, and it ...

Eurostar has called for investment to fuel international rail growth, as the debate over capacity at Temple Mills depot ...

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has confirmed that there were two blocked sander hoses on a Class 158 unit involved in a fatal head-on collision in mid-Wales last year. A train heading west ...

Network Rail has announced a new series of contracts with several freight operators to clear leaves from the railway and deal with icy winter weather. Leaves are crushed by train wheels and form a ...