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Early May Bank Holiday Weekend: Buses replace trains in the Basingstoke area while Network Rail carry out vital track improvements

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April 9, 2025
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Buses will replace trains in the Basingstoke area over the early May Bank Holiday Weekend (Sunday 4 and Monday 5 May) while Network Rail complete essential track improvements. Over the two-day closure, Network Rail’s engineers will be replacing the track that runs through Platform 4 at Basingstoke station as well as between Fleet and Farnborough […]

Great Western Railway and Network Rail bring Control under single leadership team

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April 9, 2025
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Great Western Railway (GWR) and Network Rail are joining forces by bringing their Control functions together in a single, joint team to bolster collaborative working and service delivery. The move to bring track and train closer together builds on the organisations’ collaborative working and formal alliance agreement originally signed in 2016 – it is designed […]

Gothenburg’s port-rail success: A model for Europe?

Nikos Papatolios
April 9, 2025
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The Port of Gothenburg has witnessed a remarkable surge in rail freight, with volumes doubling over the last six years and rail accounting for almost…

Contargo beefs up rail freight offering with France-Germany-Poland shuttles

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April 9, 2025
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German multimodal operator Contargo, which offers freight transport solutions by barge, train and truck, will launch two rail shuttle services linking France, Germany and Poland…

Lithuania to monitor Russian transit trains from the air

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April 9, 2025
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Lithuania is going to do helicopter surveillance on Russian transit trains. Moscow has to send trains through the country to reach its exclave Kaliningrad overland.…

Ukrainian foreign wagons ban primarily affects Baltic and Kazakh owners

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April 9, 2025
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Ukrainian Railways (UZ) introduced a ban on the use of foreign-owned wagons in late March. The move seeks to protect domestic owners by removing outside…

New home for Class 47 locomotive

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April 9, 2025
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The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway has announced that they have come to an agreement with Rail Engineering Solutions for Class 47 No. 47715 to…

Metro Tunnel promised more trains, more often but that is not what will be delivered

Bardy Bigglesworth
April 9, 2025
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The new services will not provide the much needed capacity for the Craigieburn and Werribee lines already at crush load and dangerous to passengers.

New assistance points for disabled passengers at forty Northern stations

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April 9, 2025
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Train operator Northern has unveiled a new facility aimed at assisting disabled passengers at forty of its stations.

Book Review: Northern Electrics: EMUs in the North of England by Martyn Hilbert

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April 9, 2025
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This book is a compilation of photographs illustrating electric multiple units (EMUs) throughout northern England, but not specifically those operated by train operator Northern as…