The Department for Transport has improved its management of rail franchises following the collapse of West Coast intercity deal in 2012, but new risks are emerging due to delays and the rising costs...
Rail users will pay for failures to effectively plan investments in the network, which has led to “staggering and unacceptable” cost increases on the Great Western electrification project...
The government’s £757.1m sale of its stake in cross-Channel rail operator Eurostar did not cover the costs of public sector investment in the company and was driven by a desire to sell prior to the...
A leading rail operator has called for the current franchise system to be scrapped on some lines and replaced with licensing regime that could raise money for taxpayers.
A government review is considering reforms to the state-owned rail company, including possible privatisation. There are a number of options that the study must consider.
Plans to build 11 new platforms at Euston station as part of the High Speed 2 scheme have been set out by the project developers as part of a regeneration of the site.
Most rail fares are to rise by 1% in 2016 after the Retail Prices Index figure for July 2015 was published by the Office for National Statistics today.
The government has reiterated its commitment to a new high speed TransNorth rail link, despite rail electrification projects in the region being scaled back.
Network Rail has been fined £2m after being found to be in breach of its licence by the rail watchdog following disruption to services in both London and Scotland.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has scaled back the government’s £38bn rail investment programme, suspending electrification work in the North and Midlands.
Regulators have launched an investigation into the performance of government-owned Network Rail after finding it had failed to meet a series of targets in its multi-billion pound upgrade programme.
Costly failures such as the government’s botched award of the West Coast mainline franchise will continue unless there is an ‘honest appraisal’ of the skills gaps in the civil...
A decision by the Department for Transport to centrally procure trains for the East Coast, Great Western and Thameslink lines has left taxpayers bearing all the risk of a £10.5bn programme, the...
