📢 Great news - work is underway to restore Newquay's second platform. With other Mid Cornwall Metro upgrades it will mean hourly Newquay-Par trains from 2025, extending to Falmouth from 2026. @cornwallcouncil Department for Transport GWR Network Rail Western midcornwallmetro.com/2024/09/work-u…

Revealed👀! Enhanced designs for #Birmingham Curzon Street Station. Improved features include additional cycle parking, better accessibility, rain gardens with seating, and a more passenger-friendly internal layout. Learn more: gloo.to/FvrE

NEW: ASLEF members have voted YES on the offer to end our national pay dispute. The vote to accept was 96.6%, with a turnout of 88.5%. Thank you to everyone who has offered support and solidarity, and thanks to our members for their commitment and strength.

Today we put an end to the longest strike in the history of our railways, which cost our economy and the taxpayer more than £1bn. This clears the way for vital reforms which will modernise our railways. This Labour Government will always put passengers and taxpayers first.

The Railway 200 team are in Darlington today at the unveiling of S&DR200’s festival programme. Alongside this, we are pleased to launch an interactive map of activities and the launch of our toolkit. You can read the full press release here: ow.ly/7rtF50Tq4T8 S&DR200

We've ended the longest national rail strike in recent history. Now we can get on with delivering publicly-owned rail and root-and-branch reform, which will modernise our railways. Read more about our transformative plans in today's Standard👇 standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

🎊 Children's Competitions - Winner Showcase 🎊 A big congratulations to all the children who took part in our Rail Safety Week 2024 Children’s Competitions, and special applause to our winners! Find out more here ➡️shorturl.at/y0oBx #RSW24 #BuildingSafetyTogether

Opening of the new Bakerloo Line entrance at Paddington today

Noel Dolphin In the October Modern Railways , of course. On sale next week.

It’s World 🚗 Free Day - and it’s another first from London North Eastern Railway! To underline our commitment to more sustainable travel we’ve named a train ‘Our Planet’ - and the livery has been applied using a partially bio-based material, the first train in the UK to do so.  ❤️🌍

Gordon Dudman #Marcher Henry F-H I do some analysis of Class 90 vs Class 66 energy cost in Modern Railways published this week.

Neil Williams See the October Modern Railways published this week for Mk4 ride vs Mk 3. Never found Mk 3 jiggly in over 4 decades of riding. Mk4 excellent at 140 mile/h!!

Interesting mix of traction at Newark this morning... East Midlands Railway (EMR)'s present and future with the Pride liveried '170', Aurora No 810001 about to start its day's testing on the ECML, and a Class 47 Thunderbird loco

Arrived at Edinburgh to find newly named London North Eastern Railway Azuma No 801204

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Heading to Inverness with London North Eastern Railway on the Highland Chieftain, surely one of the most iconic through services on the network

Two generations of high-speed train passing at Aviemore

Back on the London North Eastern Railway Highland Chieftain this morning - great to chat with the crew about the service and to hear about LNER's support for RASASH - Rape and Sexual Abuse Service Highland through the Customer and Community Investment Fund. And the weather much better than forecast!

Copies of a special edition Modern Railways proving very popular at the Lumo and Hull Trains exhibition stand in #Liverpool

Heated agreement with this! I never understood why some stations got the complicated water fountains and others didn't...