More emphasis on practical training for trainee train drivers

A new framework has been developed to improve the practical on-the-job training undertaken by trainee train drivers.

Travel advice released as train drivers go on strike

Advice on next weeks train strikes, including dates that individual TOCs go on strike and potential ticket refunds.

The government is being urged by the train drivers’ union, ASLEF, to commit that all new rolling stock will be in public ownership.

On 5 September, Great Western Railway presented a couple from Cornwall with a special cake in return for a kind-hearted gesture made 65 years ago.