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Developers in Winchburgh are willing to split the cost of a new station with the Scottish Government - but are struggling to secure a commitment.
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Rail unions have warned transport bosses not to close station ticket offices or reduce the number of staff on trains amid fears for passenger safety.
(Permalink) ASLEF Anti-social behaviour RMT ScotRail Ticket offices |
The long running quest to bring a railway station back to Grangemouth is steaming onward once more as a new transport appraisal is set to go ahead.
(Permalink) Grangemouth Grangemouth: 60047 with the empties from Dalston passing the site of the former Grangemouth station, just awaiting the will to re-open it. With the reduction in trackwork there's plenty of spare room here. Grangemouth: 54465 stands at Grangemouth with the BLS rail tour originating from Polmont on 7 May 1960 |
Passengers will benefit from a £12.6m investment in Scotland's Railway over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
(Permalink) Glasgow Central Motherwell Rutherglen Shieldmuir Junction Shields Road |
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Today (Monday) the Department for Transport has announced the appointment of Alex Hynes to the role of Director General, Rail Services. Alex will join the DfT on a two-year secondment from his current position as managing director of Scotlands Railway on 15 April 2024.
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An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).
(Permalink) Manchester Victoria Stalybridge Transpennine Route Upgrade |
The pilot which scrapped peak rail fares is due to end this summer.
(Permalink) Fares Peak fares ScotRail |
Steel unions say they have known of concerns about the condition of the coke ovens for some time.
(Permalink) Abbey Steelworks Coke Ovens Port Talbot |
Work to build a new footbridge over the Levenmouth railway at Duniface has started.
(Permalink) Core Path Duniface East Fife Central Junction Footbridge Kennoway Kirkland Dam Levenmouth Line Methilhill River Leven Swaine's bridge |
ScotRail and East Lothian Council have dismissed claims that both parties have been in talks about the possible sale of ScotRails North Berwick Railway Station car park to the local authority.
(Permalink) Car park East Lothian Council North Berwick ScotRail |
During lockdown, author, playwright and former River City scriptwriter Jack Dickson spent a lot of time walking his dog around Springburn.
(Permalink) Springburn |
The MV Isle of Islay, the first of two vessels to serve Islay and Jura, was launched today.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne MV Isle of Islay |
A B-listed railway bridge has been given a new lease of life after a £500,000 makeover.
(Permalink) Paisley Gilmour Street |
Paisley Gilmour Street station's B-listed railway bridge has been given a new lease of life by Network Rail.
(Permalink) Paisley Gilmour Street |
Network Rail has teamed up with the charity Railway Children to host a fifth annual sleepout event in railway stations across the country, raising money and awareness for the work being done to help the thousands of vulnerable young children who pass through the railway every year.
(Permalink) Network Rail Railway Children |
Highland Council wants it to be prioritised for funding ahead of Inverness' Longman roundabout.
(Permalink) Corran Ferry |
Netherlands: The European Commission has sent a further letter of formal notice to the Netherlands, expressing concerns about the direct award of a contract for state-owned incumbent Nederlandse Spoorwegen to operate services on the designated core passenger network between January 1 2025 and December 24 2033.
(Permalink) Nederlandse Spoorwegen |
Ahead of the Easter holidays, Network Rail is reminding walkers of the importance of staying safe and correctly using pedestrian level crossings over the East Coast Main Line on the Northumberland coast as surveys suggest 30% of people are putting their lives at risk through improper use.
(Permalink) Level crossings Northumberland |
A trial has been held of a sub-fifty mile (80km) intermodal haul in Central Scotland. The revival could connect an intermodal terminal in Paisley, to the west of Glasgow, with the rail freight terminal at the Port of Grangemouth on the River Forth. The rail freight connection would offer an alternative to the congested roads […]
(Permalink) Elderslie Grangemouth Grangemouth Docks: The Rail Freight Group Scottish Conference took place in Grangemouth on Wednesday 7 March 2024. Freightliner ran a special from Elderslie for Malcolms, reviving a flow that ran for about 5 years 2009- ... |
Network Rail said two stops would not be served for nine days. Between March 16 and March 25, buses will replace trains from Tulloch, Roy Bridge and Spean Bridge stations to Fort William but there will be no service to Rannoch and Corrour.
(Permalink) Corrour Maintenance Rannoch Rannoch Viaduct Rannoch: 156450 on the rear of a 4-car Sprinter leaving sunny Rannoch for Fort William and Mallaig on 20th April 2022. Corrour: The most remote and highest station on the UK rail network is Corrour, seen here on 15th May 2019. In the picture is the station, the Station House Restaurant, Loch Coir' a' Bhric Beag and Loch Ossian ... Rannoch Viaduct: 37 405 takes a southbound freight over the viaduct on the northern approach to Rannoch station in the 1980s. |
Plans have been drawn up to make Glasgow's iconic Hielanman's Umbrella a more attractive space.
(Permalink) Glasgow Central Hielanman's Umbrella |
Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham is to undertake the museums biggest ever rail shunt to create Europe's largest undercover display of historic rail vehicles.
(Permalink) Locomotion NRM Shildon |
Unions are warning of public safety risks on Scotland's railways over an "unfathomable" planned cut of £315m in renewing and improving the nation's rail infrastructure over the next five years.
(Permalink) Cuts Maintenance |
Lockerbie: The 12.00 Manchester Airport - Edinburgh Waverley calls at Lockerbie on 11 June 2013. |
The last surviving member of railway workers who helped keep an isolated Cumbrian town alive during one of Britain's harshest winters is holding a talk on the matter next month.
(Permalink) 1962/63 Alston Big Freeze Harold Bowron Snow Winter Alston: Branch train from Hatwhistle at Alston station in June 1952. |
ScotRail says the West Highland Line north of Crianlarich will be closed for essential engineering works from March 16 to 24.
(Permalink) West Highland Line West Highland Railway |
The work of former railway manager Dennis Lovett, the book takes a journey into the past.
(Permalink) Beattock Dennis Lovett Beattock: A view north of the fine station building and covered footbridge at Beattock in 1961. A similar building survives on Lockerbie's northbound platform, whereas this building was on the southbound. |
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch criticised driver-only operation plans.
(Permalink) DOO Driver-only operation RMT |
A new road and bridge over the rail tracks south of the current crossing in Markle will be created as part of the project.
(Permalink) Markle Level Crossing Markle Level Crossing: 158711 crosses the not so level level crossing at Markle on 29 April 2017 with a Dunbar to Waverley service. |
Scotrail workers will be balloted for strike action over Driver Only Operation (DOO) trains, RMT can reveal.
(Permalink) DOO Driver-only operation RMT |
Glasgow Central is a much loved part of the city's identity which has a rich history.
(Permalink) Glasgow Central Glasgow Central: Circle train approaching Central. CR 0.4.4T 15265. |
Network Rail has completed a six-day, £1.9 million upgrade of the Stranraer line. The project involved replacing more than 1km of track at Laggansarroch viaduct, near Girvan, including the use of 200 recycled plastic (composite) sleepers over the structure itself.
(Permalink) Composite sleepers Laggansarroch Viaduct Maintenance Track replacement |
Network Rail and rail industry partners have launched a campaign to inspire young people to travel more by train and help the fight against climate change.
Called A Greener Future, the campaign aims to encourage Gen Z to choose the train over the car and explain that just one journey by train can make a significant and positive impact on the environment. (Permalink) A Greener Future Network Rail |
A total of £1,526,649.92 was paid out since April 1 2022 as a result of delays, cancellations or disruptions, figures show.
(Permalink) Compensation ScotRail |
The new ScotRail apprenticeships have positions available in sectors ranging from engineering and administration to customer service.
(Permalink) Apprenticeships ScotRail |
Green MSP Ross Greer is encouraging commuters from Inverclyde to make use of the special offer which sees peak-time rail fares removed until the end of June.
(Permalink) Green Inverclyde |
John Geddes raised the alarm after growing suspicious of a couple at Portgordon station in Banffshire in 1940.
(Permalink) Portgordon Portgordon: The site of Portgordon station, looking east towards Buckpool and Buckie, in August 2010. Half of the site is now occupied by the local bowling club. The line ran along the edge of the bowling green w ... |
The UK's third busiest station is set for a dramatic revamp, involving filling empty spaces with retail units and pedestrianising the space outside the railway hub.
(Permalink) London Waterloo |
Passengers are being reminded that a section of the West Highland Line between Crianlarich and Fort William/Mallaig will be closed for nine days starting on March 16.
(Permalink) Crianlarich Fort William Maintenance Mallaig West Highland Railway |
New buses were ordered when Dundee housing schemes sprung up and they were universally popular with passengers.
(Permalink) Dundee City Tramways |
Direct Rail Services (DRS) is delighted to announce that their charity open day returns later this year. The open day shows behind the scenes at one of the UK's leading rail freight operators and is an event for all the family. Visitors will get to look around the company's maintenance depot in Carlisle, sit in ...
(Permalink) Carlisle Kingmoor DRS Direct Rail Services Kingmoor Open Day Carlisle Kingmoor TMD: Looking through the DRS shed at Kingmoor during the open day on 11 July 2009, with 66431 standing at the head of the line. |
Ferry sailings resume from Ardrossan harbour after three days of operating out of Troon.
(Permalink) Ardrossan Harbour Brodick Troon Ardrossan Harbour: Calmac 'MV Caledonian Isles' loads for the return sailing after battling a strong wind and extremely rough sea to reach her berth at Ardrossan Harbour on arrival from Brodick Pier on Arran in June 201 ... |
Crossroads Station was built beside a level crossing on Clepington Road when trains rumbled along the tracks.
(Permalink) Crossroads Crossroads: The building at Crossroads station seen in 2010 in a view looking east across the former trackbed. Opened 1832 and possibly closed around 1853, although the line remained open until 1861 when the Loch ... |
The bus struck a low bridge near Fauldhouse station on Monday morning.
(Permalink) Bridge strike Fauldhouse Fauldhouse: Pre-electrification view from the new footbridge at Fauldhouse on 31st August 2016. The Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway passed under the tracks of the Cleland and Midcalder Line just abou ... |
Avanti West Coast's Feel Good Field Trips initiative has taken 2,500 pupils on days out by train - marking its halfway milestone.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Feel Good Field Trips |