Transport and Logistics Network
If you’ve ever been at a railway station in rush hour, you’ll know that it can be hell on earth. Massive crowds, platform changes, people with enormous suitcases – all these and more could make anyone wish to become a hermit.
There’s at least one stati…
A number of train services across Cambridgeshire will experience heavy disruption this bank holiday weekend as further industrial action takes place. Rail strikes will happen on Saturday (August 26) as the long-running dispute over work conditions and …
A woman who was found injured on the train tracks in Ely[1] yesterday (August 16) was taken to hospital. British Transport Police were called to a section of the line just after 6pm, following reports of a person on the tracks.
Once officers got there …
Liverpool FC have confirmed that the Kop and Anfield Road Stands will have safe standing areas after the safety certificate was approved for the new season, representing around 13,000 of the capacity.
The move will now see the introduction of safe stan…
While Cambridgeshire is set to get more railway stations over the coming years, it still has far fewer than it used to. Work continues apace on Cambridge South and elsewhere in the county Cambourne and Tempsford are set to get new stations as part of t…
Essex residents have been told not to travel today by rail unless your journey is essential after a tree fell onto the railway, striking a train and blocking two lines. Greater Anglia services are suspended between Manningtree and Ipswich.
The train se…
Trains have been cancelled this morning (Tuesday, August 15) on the London to Norwich line after a tree fell on the line in Suffolk. Greater Anglia services throughout Norfolk and Suffolk are heavily disrupted after the incident, which happened between…
Mid Suffolk[1] Light Railway (MSLR) has announced its full programme of events for the end of the summer.
Suffolk[2]’s only standard gauge heritage railway, located in Stowmarket[3] and known as the ‘Middy’, offers steam trains and other attractions ev…
Anne Martin, whose family has owned Great Eastern Models, on Plumstead Road, Norwich[1] for more than 36 years, said since lockdown, a record number of people had been ditching outdoor hobbies[2] in favour of “cozy activities” like model building.
Fami…
Network Rail has confirmed that a number of track upgrades will be taking place on lines travelling through Cambridge and Peterborough[1]. This will involve replacing nine sets of 40-year-old points on either side of Stowmarket Station.
The old wooden …