New Manchester and London service proposal

A new Manchester city and airport service to London has been proposed. The franchised operator London Northwestern Railway has set out plans to extend its existing services between Euston in London. Trains would run further north to additionally serve Manchester Airport, and the city centre terminus at Victoria.

ScotRail enforces emergency timetable

After weeks of disruption, culminating in a virtual meltdown of services over the past weekend, passenger services in Scotland have entered an open-ended period of ‘emergency timetable operations’. The government-owned domestic passenger train operator – ScotRail has effectively reduced its services by about twenty per cent, daily. The underlying cause is a shortage of drivers…

Network Rail chief joins UK government

The new Labour Party government has announced its team of ministers in charge of transport. The new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has appointed his shadow team to the substantive roles. The surprise appointment has been the call for Peter Hendy, the chairman of Network Rail, to give up that post and become the Rail Minister.…