| Road Transport | Olof Persson to replace Gerrit Marx as CEO of Iveco Group starting from July 2024
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The Board of Iveco Group N.V. (EX…
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The LMS-Patriot Project has moved the chassis of the new-build The Unknown Warrior locomotive to a new assembly base at Tyseley[1] Locomotive Works in Birmingham[2].
The move came about because the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust[3] wanted the ch…
East Lancashire Railway[1] has adopted a battery-electric locomotive built in 1944 from Manchester[2]’s Science and Industry Museum.
The eighty-year-old loco was transported to Buckley Wells’ locomotive depot on 30 October to have its missing battery c…
The M62 was closed in both directions by police on Sunday afternoon (October 22) after an ‘aggressive bull’ had escaped.
Armed police attended the incident with police helicopters circling overhead, as the motorway was shut off between J20 and J19 near…
There are long queues on a section of the M62 in Greater Manchester this afternoon after both carriageways were shut following animals getting into the road. All traffic was stopped by police just before 4pm today.
Pictures show huge queues on both car…
There are loads of great Bonfire Night events taking place in Greater Manchester this year.There will be no Manchester council-run Bonfire Night events again this year, but there are plenty of other public events taking place across Greater Manchester,…
Downing Street has called it the ‘recast’ of HS2[1]. The end of the line for high-speed rail to Manchester[2] was announced on Wednesday (October 4).
Rishi Sunak said his government now wants to make sure the multi-billion-pound scheme is part of a ‘bl…
Rishi Sunak desperately tried to quell criticism of his decision to axe HS2’s northern leg by announcing the £36billion earmarked for the Birmingham to Manchester scheme would instead be pumped into other transport schemes.
Projects identified in the 4…
A link road between the M62 and M60, new Metrolink lines to Heywood, Wigan[1] and Bolton and billions to fix potholes have been promised by the government.
Following the news of the second leg of HS2 being scrapped[2] on Wednesday (October 4) the gover…
The Government has pledged to extend the Metrolink line to Manchester Airport – where it has already existed for almost nine years.
Following the news of the second leg of HS2 being scrapped[1] on Wednesday (October 4) the government has instead announ…
Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent
30 August 2023 at 0:21 pm
Rail unions have raised fresh safety concerns over the closure of ticket offices ahead of a protest on the eve of the final day of consultation on the controversial plans.
All three ma…
Both National Highways North West and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) said that at around 2.20pm, emergency services were called to a crash.
The incident happened on the M62 westbound between junctions 21 and 20, near the border betw…
Chris Hayter Transport defied the economic downturn to deliver a rise in both revenue and pre-tax profits last year. The family firm, which is based in Witney, Oxfordshire, has depots in Witney, Skelmersdale and Heywood, Lancashire and has opera…