The UK and Scottish governments agreed to a £10m feasibility study into progressing the line from Tweedbank onto Carlisle, via Hawick, in 2021.
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Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway has teamed up with award-winning Linlithgow Distillery to offer two special evening trips.
(Permalink) Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway Great Britain XVI Linlithgow Distillery

The fight for a train station in Winchburgh was taken to the doors of the Scottish Parliament this week.
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Network Rail has delivered a £1.3 million investment of platform works at Giffnock and Pollokshaws West stations.
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Jacqueline Starr, chief executive officer of Rail Delivery Group (RDG), marks a milestone for Darwin, the rail industry's official real-time train running information system. Darwin is 20 years old and at RDG we are celebrating this impressive milestone. But what is Darwin? And why should you care? Darwin is one of the most critical systems ...
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A further delay to one of the new Arran ferries built at Ferguson Marine has been revealed.
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The UK steam hauled tour is working its way back south from Inverness on its way to Edinburgh and on to London.
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An NC500 railway route has seen a visit from an extraordinary steam train, The Great Britain XVI.
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A train drivers strike will lead to almost three in four services being cut on Saturday on LNER, which operates intercity trains between London, York and Edinburgh. Members of the Aslef union will take industrial action for 24 hours on 20 April and also ban overtime during the weekend in a dispute over terms and conditions, separate to the wider pay row that has led to strikes at all national rail operators across England.
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Information panels with Makaton symbols that promote walks, trails, cycle routes, nature reserves and heritage attractions have come to six stations in Cumbria.
(Permalink) Cumbria Cycling Makaton Paths Walking

Ministers are looking to give troubled state-run ferry firm CalMac the right to run lifeline services in perpetuity, sparking a row amongst user groups.
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Talk of Elizabeth line order raised hopes over safeguarding future of Derby factory but staff are taking nothing for granted. It's strange at the moment: everywhere's so quiet. Its not good. Mick Waldram has worked at Alstom's sprawling train manufacturing plant on Litchurch Lane in Derby for 20 years, like his parents before him, and has watched in recent months as its six production lines have been gradually mothballed. I've been here 20 years and my brothers been here 20 years as well, Waldram says. My mum was the managing directors secretary, she was here 38 years, and my dad was a projects engineer who was here 36 years. We want to stay here. Me and my brother are not looking at leaving, we want to stay here if possible, do another 20 years. ...
(Permalink) Alstom Derby

Plans for a community hub, including a bakery and a cookery workshop space, on the grounds of Whitley Bay Metro Station have been submitted to North Tyneside Council.
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A former club venue in Ayr has been put up for sale with a price tag of £120,000.
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In parliament debates and council meetings we hear a lot about joined-up thinking and collaborative approaches and of course plans are always holistic and follow extensive consultation with stakeholders.
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A lack of progress in reopening a Highland railway station that was temporarily shut in a row over access, is worrying, say local politicians.
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Seven more trains per day will stop off in West Fife from June after ScotRail revealed timetable improvements.
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Network Rail is inviting people to attend three community drop-in events ahead of the opening of the Levenmouth rail link.
(Permalink) Cameron Bridge Leven Levenmouth Line Network Rail

Work is progressing well in the 4m project to provide step-free access at Anniesland station in Glasgow.
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Lifesaving defibrillators have now been installed at 87 ScotRail stations throughout the country, after the train operator completed the latest roll-out of new machines.
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GB Railfreight (GBRf) has extended its haulage contract with Network Rail. Effective from 1 April 2024, the contract is a two-year extension with an option for a third year.

GBRf will continue to provide critical services essential for the smooth operation of Network Rail’s engineering works and renewals. This includes the provision of possession trains and the movement of Network Rail wagons to support engineering trains, with up to 16 daily trains dedicated to network services.
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The Scottish Government will "leave no stone unturned" in securing a future for the troubled nationalised ferry fiasco shipyard, the wellbeing economy secretary Mairi McAllan has pledged.
(Permalink) Ferguson Marine

Rail union RMT has rejected a below-inflation 2024 pay offer from Network Rail of just 3.5 per cent today (Thursday April 18, 2024) at a time when MPs have handed themselves an uplift of 5.5 per cent.
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132 new homes - a quarter of which will be affordable - are set to be built.
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A fatal accident inquiry is to be held into the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a tram more than five years ago.
(Permalink) Edinburgh Trams FAI Fatal accident inquiry

LNER bosses said the firm will run more than 40 services between London, Edinburgh and West Yorkshire on Saturday, equivalent to 26 percent of its usual timetable.
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The new Belfast Grand Central Station is expected to open in the autumn.
(Permalink) Belfast Grand Central Belfast Great Victoria Street

In the Parliamentary debate on the cancellation of HS2 phase 2, Transport Minister Mark Harper claimed that what remains of HS2 will deliver a massive increase in capacity to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) by providing 250,000 seats a day. This figure was subsequently repeated by the Prime Minister and Rail Minister who advised ...
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Freightliner confirmed that ownership of the Coatbridge Terminal has be taken over by Russell Railroad Limited, a subsidiary of John G Russell, effective Freightliner confirmed that ownership of the Coatbridge Terminal has be taken over by Russell Railroad Limited, a subsidiary of John G Russell, effective immediately.
(Permalink) Coatbridge FLT Freightliner John G Russell Railfreight Russell Railroad Limited

Figures released by ScotRail to Labour's Katy Clark show just 80 of Scotland's 357 stations have toilets available for public use.
(Permalink) ScotRail Station facilities. Toilets

Martin Stewart, a talented Midlothian railway modeller based in Bonnyrigg, has built a highly detailed model of a typical station on the picturesque West Highland Railway to a scale of 1:76, the most popular scale for model railways.
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Ray Nolton, a resident of Dalgety Bay and member of the Scalefour Society's East of Scotland 4mm Group, has built a highly detailed model of a typical rail served Scottish industrial site, as it might have looked in the 1950s/60s, called Union Mills.
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The first phase of a £2.5m investment to improve three railway bridges in Glasgow's West End is complete.
(Permalink) Kelvin Viaduct Yorkhill Viaduct

A number of timetable improvements for customers in and around Fife and the Tay Cities are set to be introduced in June this year after more than 700 responses to a public consultation.
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The impressive grade-B listed Ayr Station Hotel was built in 1885 in the French-Renaissance chateau-style and was an integral part of the station with the travel centre inside the hotels north wing. In 2010, it was purchased by a Malaysian businessman who abandoned it after it closed in 2012 ...
(Permalink) Ayr Station Hotel

Robert Napier was perhaps the greatest of all Clyde shipbuilders.
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Road closures are in place on the Spine Road to allow for work to be carried out on the Northumberland Line rail project.
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Young pupils from Clifton Nursery and Primary School have taken their first train journey to enjoy lunch and activities at Appleby Railway Station thanks to the support of the Settle-Carlisle Railway Development Company. The children, aged three to five years old, have been learning about different kinds of transport, including trains. The train journey organised ...
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Scotland's Railway has today (Wednesday, April 17) published its Climate Ready Plan which sets out how the nations railways will respond to the challenges of our changing climate over the next five years and beyond.
(Permalink) Climate Ready Plan Network Rail

Save Britain's Heritage has reacted with concern to news that more of the former Station Hotel building in Ayr is to be demolished.
(Permalink) Ayr Station Hotel Save Britain's Heritage

Construction of the entrance to the new Cameron Bridge station will continue with changes to a nearby road layout from Monday (22 April).
(Permalink) Cameron Bridge Roadworks

Everyones favourite blue engine will return to Boness for three weekends this year and the first visit is next month.
(Permalink) Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway Days out with Thomas

In 1871, after a petition by the residents of Monikie, work started on a station in March of that year.
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Hundreds of thousands of commuters and day-trippers must have passed by the Christmas Truce Bench since it was installed in Central Station on VE Day two years ago.
(Permalink) Christmas Truce Bench Glasgow Central VE Day

Archaeologists excavating a 19th century fortress in Belgium made a surprising and mysterious discovery: a nearly 100-year-old train car originating from England.
(Permalink) Antwerp LNER

ScotRail is advising customers to plan ahead and expect some services to be busier than normal ahead of a packed weekend of sporting action.
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Rail union RMT called an urgent summit today (April 16, 2024) to save train manufacturing jobs at Derby and blamed rail industry privatisation as being the root cause of the threat to UK train manufacturing.
(Permalink) Derby RMT

Trains currently pass by communities along the Shore Road without stopping due to a lack of halts.
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John O'Dowd "reviewing my own departments Irish language policy and ensuring that it is line with the European Charter for Minority Languages".
(Permalink) Belfast Central Station Gaeilge Irish

Edinburgh rail passengers could soon be able to travel directly to Cardiff if new plans are given the go ahead to introduce open access services across the UK.
(Permalink) Cardiff Edinburgh Open access