There is an open weekend planned at London Transport Museum’s Depot. The family Open Weekend will take place on 16 and 17 October 2010. The Depot, which is normally closed to the public, houses over 370,000 objects including 70 road and rail vehicles, signs, models, photographs, engineering drawings, uniforms and ...

Wandsworth Council’s planning applications committee has approved plans by Network Rail to enhance Wandsworth Town Station.The proposals include a new entrance and ticket office to replace the site’s temporary facilities on Old York Road. With the new building in place, the automatic ticket barriers would be relocated from the narrow ...

 The £32m Thameslink core area resignalling contract has been awarded to Invensys Rail. It is a key part of Network Rail's project to increase the cross-London route's  capacity, allowing 24 trains per hour to run via Loughborough Junction/London Bridge in the south, central London, and Kentish Town in the north. The signalling will be commissioned ...

ScotRail is to launch a Sunday train service for day trippers to Oban from Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Polmont over six weeks this summer. It will start on Sunday 25 July and run each Sunday until 29 August inclusive.The service is timed to give passengers five hours in the West Highland town. The train will ...

Iain Coucher has informed Network Rail’s Board of his intention to step down following eight years with the company, including three years as chief executive. He will remain in his post over the coming months and will be involved in the search and recruitment of a successor to allow for ...

Unit No 156499 was the Class 156 working the 18.20 Queen Street-Oban service on 6 June. It hit what is thought to be boulders caused by a rock fall at Falls of Cruachan. The unit is on its side, with the front coach overhanging a drop of 15 metres. The ...

On 1 June, Electro-Motive Diesel announced that it had been bought by Progress Rail Services, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. EMD, manufacturer of the Class 66 and 67 locomotives used in the UK, has a locomotive manufacturing plant that employs 400 people in London, Ontario, Canada, plus an engine factory ...

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