£1.4m upgrade complete: Conwy Valley line reopens after major resilience work

Train services are running again on the Conwy Valley line after a £1.4 million programme to make the railway more reliable during extreme weather.  The line between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llandudno Junction reopened to passengers on Monday 27 October, following four weeks of intensive work by Network Rail engineers and specialist contractors.  Over the past month, teams […]

Director of University of Huddersfield’s Institute of Railway Research attends event to celebrate 20 years of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch

The Director of the University’s Institute of Railway Research was honoured to attend a Parliamentary event in Westminster to celebrate 20 years of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB). Professor Paul Allen’s invitation from the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety came in the light of the long history between University of Huddersfield rail experts […]