Five highlights from the early May Bank Holiday upgrades We successfully delivered 550 upgrade projects over the early May Bank Holiday. The entirety of our work was worth £70m and provided essential railway upgrades for you and our freight partners. Here are five of the highlights from this huge scope of work. 1. … Continued
Joseph Locke was just 17 when he took part in pioneering work that set out the birth of the modern passenger railway. Locke was born into a family of colliery managers on 9 August 1805. His planning for the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the North of England – under the leadership of engineer George … Continued
We just completed more than £100m of vital railway upgrades and maintenance projects over the this Easter weekend to give you better journeys across Britain. Our teams carried out 600 projects around the country between Friday 2 and Monday 5 April 2021. They included vital improvements to give you better and more reliable train services for … Continued
Striking images taken by our helicopter have highlighted the impact of Storm Christoph in the past week. Our dedicated Air Operations team is surveying the railway as floodwaters recede across the North West after Storm Christoph. Initial signs show railway lines left submerged in recent days in Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria have little or … Continued
The railway has undergone huge changes in response to coronavirus, to keep vital services running for key workers and freight operators and ensure people using the railway and working on it can stay far enough apart from each other. However, we are doing everything we can to continue our day to day work for everybody … Continued