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The Office of Rail and Road has just announced the approval of all the open access passenger train service applications for the East Coast Mainline for December 2025 except the the Hull Trains application for new services between London King’s Cross and Sheffield which the ORR rejected. This is...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/wrexham-shropshire-midlands-railway-updates.258172/page-20#post-7363072 I do see a potential political issue with not having a direct train service between Shrewsbury and London. Shrewsbury Railway Station is operated by the...

This is the ORR press release rejecting the three WCML open access applications (WSMR, Lumo Rochdale, Virgin).

For this reason I consider it was most unwise for the Department for Transport to write the following letter to the Office of Rail and Road dated 20 June 2025 which the Office of Rail and Road have just published on their website. The Office of Rail and Road must make the decisions on all Open...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/aslef-lner-drivers-to-strike-every-sat-sun-for-3-months-from-31-aug.272451/page-11#post-6901411 So how is Great British Railways going to work?

mods note - split from here Sorry but I do not agree with this revamp, Reading West Station is a bottleneck on a section of track that is used by freight trains between Southampton and the Midlands, Cross Country trains from the Midlands and the North of England to the South Coast and GWR...

https://www.southernrailway.com/westcoastway West Coastway: proposed timetable changes