Contracts have been awarded by Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) to operate the final round of Bee Network services in Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and remaining parts of Manchester and Salford from 5 January 2025 – at which point all buses…
Work to electrify Oldham bus depot and enable charging for a new fleet of modern zero emission buses for the Bee Network has been completed.
As part of the Bee Network, buses in Greater Manchester are being brought back under local control for the firs…
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A journalist arrested by Hertfordshire Police for filming Just Stop Oil protests has made it into a clip featured in his documentary.
Police officers in Hertfords…
Nick Thomas-Symonds said he believed that Azhar Ali, who claimed the country had allowed Hamas to inflict its October 7 attack, had fallen “for an online conspiracy theory.”
The Labour hopeful has apologised after he was recorded suggesting in a meetin…
Further service changes are being introduced on parts of the Metrolink network to improve reliability while repairs to a cracked rail near Victoria tram stop continue.
Exchange Square tram stop will reopen to provide a more reliable and punctual servi…
An ‘In Conversation With the Mayor of Greater Manchester’ will kick off Place North West’s crucial update on transport and development in the region. Mayor Andy Burnham joins a robust speaker line-up, which also features Transport for the North, Avanti…
“Last-minute getaway trips” could be disrupted due to wet and windy weather in the run-up to Christmas, the RAC has warned.
A number of yellow weather warnings for rain and wind are coming into force from Saturday 23 December until Christmas Day mornin…
Christmas getaway disruption is continuing with long queues for cross-Channel journeys, motorway closures and train cancellations.
The Port of Dover in Kent said it is taking about 90 minutes to process cars.
It attributed the delay to a surge in deman…
As the Telegraph & Argus reported earlier[1], emergency services were called to a three-vehicle collision on the eastbound stretch of the M62, close to junction 23, at 8.55pm yesterday.
A person was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Ano…
A teenage boy has been left injured after being ‘hit by a truck’ on a busy main road in Rochdale[1] on Tuesday evening (December 5).
Emergency services, including police and paramedics, raced to the incident on Oldham[2] Road (A671) at the junction wit…
The number of dangerous attacks on trains operated by Northern[1] is down almost 90 percent in the last 12 months, with the number of recorded incidents at just eight.
Last year, the number was 69[2].
The statistics relate to trains being struck by obj…
This new figure, down from 69, shows there were just eight incidents in the last year, which Northern said was a success of their CCTV.
The statistics relate to trains being struck by objects thrown from bridges, railway embankments and stations or tho…
Date published: 01 December 2023
Photo: Sheila Rayner
Snow on the railway line at Slattocks
Early feasibility work is currently being carried out for a planned railway station at Slattocks.
The station would become the sixth railway station within th…
Last Tuesday, 9 November, passengers arriving at Manchester[1] Victoria station were welcomed by comedian and professional greeter Troy Hawke to thank them for choosing rail travel for their journeys and to pass on the message that everyday acts like t…