Up to 40,000 new homes are to be built on land no longer needed by the railway. Four schemes in Cambridge, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham have all come under the wing of Platform4, a new ...

A stretch of the Cumbrian Coast Line has been closed after Network Rail found the track bed needed strengthening. Track and drainage renewal inside Bransty Tunnel was announced in March, with the ...

Network Rail has released updated plans for new footbridges to replace four level crossings on the North Wales Main Line.

GB Railfreight is close to accepting the 16th (and final) Class 69 after its conversion by EMD at Longport was completed.

A £360 million deal for Chiltern Railways to take 13 sets of Mk5 coaches and 14 Class 68s is close to being agreed. The ...

A mock-up of an HS2 train is to be shown off at The Greatest Gathering. HS2 Ltd has released images showing how the inside of ...

Three open access operators on the East Coast Main Line all had various aspects of their applications approved.

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has greenlit a series of additional open access services on the East Coast Main Line.

The derelict shell of what is hailed as the world’s very first railway station has been rescued, with £350,000 worth of ...

A new junction will help freight trains from Northampton Gateway to join the West Coast Main Line at higher speeds.

The first Class 99 to work on the national network under its own power was 99001 on July 23 when it worked the 2150 ...