1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (370+ words) Denise Wetton A new business unit has been created in a further step towards Great British Railways. GBR West Midlands is the fourth organisation of its kind to be set up, as the Bill to create Great British Railways continues…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (147+ words) Transport secretary Heidi Alexander says HS2 should be the match of Japan’s Shinkansen network, which started to be developed in the 1960s. At the time, Japanese railways were mainly built to a narrower gauge of 1067mm rather than the 1435mm of standard gauge, but…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (331+ words) The National Audit Office has warned that the cost of the ‘reset’ of the remaining section of HS2 will be about £153 million. Transport secretary Heidi Alexander announced last month that the line between London and Birmingham will now cost up to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (356+ words) The number of passengers on a Cornish branch line rose by a quarter in the first week after the service was doubled on 17 May. The first phase of Mid Cornwall Metro has seen the number of local trains between Newquay…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (483+ words) Euston station in London is back on the high speed agenda, after the first of two tunnel boring machines began its subterranean journey from Old Oak Common to the Euston Road. This section has been mired in a controversy which…...