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After selling its UK arm to its management team (forming Transport UK), according to Reuters NS has divested itself of the rest of its foreign operator Abellio to BeNEX of Germany which is part of infrastructure company IPP...

I had some trouble today trying to buy a PlusBus ticket covering the West Midlands Metro. The current PlusBus site says that the whole West Midlands zone is covered by both the PlusBus Birmingham and Wolverhampton tickets, and WM Metro is one of the participating operators. Starting from...

I was richly amused today when I was checking fares on the ČD web site (cd.cz). The Czech language home page came up, and I know there is an English option which you can select from a drop down menu. However on this occasion I clicked the "translate" option on my Microsoft Edge browser, and it...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/transpennine-route-upgrade-and-electrification-updates.88054/ Well I doubt 802s will pan up/down for the short transit through Leeds. The OHLE may well not be configured for it anyway, except when stopped at Leeds station. The...

NR has published its CP7 plans, and there are detailed documents on its web site, on a Region/Route basis. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/who-we-are/publications-and-resources/our-delivery-plans-for-2024-2029/ There's a lot of generic stuff here, but some specific deliverables are mentioned...

The media are picking up on the substantial disruption on the WCML caused by a signalling problem at Euston. The incident appears to have been ongoing since late morning, with many trains cancelled and just a few running, maybe 5tph. LNR seems more badly affected than Avanti...

After booking flights to match trains on the Simplon-Lötschberg route in June, I've just discovered the Simplon route is closed in Italy (Arona-Stresa, but effectively Domodossola-Milano) from June 9 to September 8. EC services from the north are truncated at Domodossola, and there are...

I haven't seen it in a recognised railway journal, but the "Daily Wrap" is reporting that this upgrade project is in trouble on the Hungarian section. This seems to be because the Chinese contractors will not commit to EU construction norms. The upgrade in Serbia, largely delivered by a mix of...

The visitor access fee regime starts on 25 April and applies on selected days during the year, between 0830 and 1600. The fee is €5 for anyone over 14 not resident in Venice (there are a number of exemptions, but none extend to foreign day trippers). The fee is charged for visits to the Old...

Mark Harper has announced the ending of safeguarding for the HS2a route (Handsacre-Crewe). HS2 Ltd will not object to new planning proposed along the route. Selling of compulsorily-purchased property along the route will begin "shortly". An enhanced junction with the WCML at Handsacre is now...

Jon Thompson, Chair of HS2 Ltd, has updated the Transport Select Committee today, with more unpalatable facts about the Phase 1 project. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67932247 - costs are now more likely to be £65 billion at 2024 prices, and the government doesn't accept this figure - HS2...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/history-of-services-from-euston-to-manchester-routings.257391/ The 1700 Manchester Central-St Pancras service on Sundays was nominally non-stop to Leicester via Matlock. It used to avoid Derby on the Chaddesden sidings route...

It's very likely there is no pointless "140mph" burden in the specification, which applied to the IEP (and Pendolinos). Presumably they will be ETCS compliant for the ECML (a first for CAF in the UK).

Rail was mentioned twice in the King's Speech today. The first mention was Network North, confirming what we already know about spend on local rail and other transport projects in the Midlands and North, notionally using money from the cancellation of HS2 Phase 2. The second was a reference...

As far as I know, steel rail in the UK (mostly procured by Network Rail of course) comes from (Chinese owned) British Steel at Scunthorpe. There is also some importation of specialist components from the EU (eg the S&C recently ordered from Austria for HS2). Scunthorpe has also exported steel...

Reports are emerging that the High Court has dismissed the legal challenge Siemens made over the HS2 rolling stock contract contract award to the Hitachi-Alstom joint venture...

The Welsh First Minister, Mark Drakeford, was quizzed today by the Welsh Affairs Committee (Westminster) on progress with new trains introduction. He said TfW were behind schedule but it was down to delays with the manufacturer that only 33 trains were in service rather than the 77 planned...

Media reports say that DB is in negotiations with Miami-based infrastructure investor I Squared for them to acquire its Arriva unit. That would include Arriva's operation of bus and train services in the UK and elsewhere in Europe...

Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, said this in a speech on the fringe of the Labour party conference today (from the Independent)...

Two parts of the HS2 Phase 1 route can now be simplified. One is the provision at Water Orton for a junction towards East Midlands Parkway. The other is at the intended Lichfield Junction between the Phase 1 and Phase 2 routes. This would have made the Phase 2 route the primary, with the curve...