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Category: Metro

Report warns ‘forensic focus’ needed to deliver Crossrail

4th February 2021 Sam Hewitt Electric, Metro, News
Crossrail

A “forensic focus” is required to complete Crossrail within its revised budget and timescale, an inquiry has found.

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WATCH: 360-degree virtual tour of Farringdon Elizabeth line station

7th January 2021 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News
WATCH: 360-degree virtual tour of Farringdon Elizabeth line station

Crossrail has introduced an innovative way to give the public a tour around the Elizabeth line station.

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Thameslink returns to Tube map after 22-year absence

16th December 2020 Sam Hewitt Metro, News
Thameslink

A major rail line is returning to London’s Tube map 22 years after being removed.

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Rail fares in England to rise above inflation for first time since 2013

16th December 2020 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News
Rail fares rise above inflation

Rail passengers will be hit by an above inflation fares rise for the first time in eight years, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced.

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Crossrail gets £825 million more Government funding

1st December 2020 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News
Elizabeth Line - Crossrail

London’s delayed and over-budget Crossrail project has been given £825 million more Government funding.

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Colour scheme for new £362m Tyne and Wear Metro fleet revealed

17th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Metro, News
Tyne and Wear train fleet

Nexus has revealed the colourful design for Tyne and Wear Metro’s new £362 million train fleet.

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Tube services hit by strike linked to dispute over timetable changes

21st February 2020 Shannon Butcher Metro, News

London Underground drivers are starting strikes on Friday in a dispute over timetable changes, causing travel misery for passengers.

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UK railway news round-up

27th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News

This week we cover Stephenson’s Rocket returning to the National Railway Museum, a senseless attack at a tube station in London, a Caledonian sleeper service strike and a UN report that claims hundreds of miles of coastal railways are at risk of flooding by 2100.

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UK’s oldest train fleet to be replaced

17th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Metro, News
The Railway Hub

The UK’s oldest train fleet is to be replaced through a £26 million investment into the Isle of Wight’s railway, the Government has announced.

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Tube drivers vote for industrial action in noise dispute

11th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Metro, News

London Underground drivers have voted to take industrial action in a dispute over the level of noise on the Tube. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) on the Jubilee, Central, Northern and

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