by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
Worcestershire County Council has published their Rail Investment Strategy which documents a vision of the development of rail services as part of their Local Transport Plan 4. As to be expected the plan concentrates on an improved London service via the Cotswold Line...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
FirstBus, operating as First Worcester, has returned to Herefordshire. The operator who withdrew from Hereford City and closed their garage there in 2015, has won a number of Herefordshire Council contracts in the Ledbury Area. From September they will be taking over...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
London Midland has lost the West Midlands Rail Franchise. The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that the new franchise has been awarded to a joint venture between Abellio (Netherlands Rail) and Japanese partners (East Japan Rail & Mitsui). This is the...
by Will Frecknall | 14 Aug 2017 | News
1 Daily Telegraph published news that ‘Whitehall backlogs have caused the Government to miss its own deadline for awarding a major rail contract (West Midlands Franchise)’. Later reports indicate that London Midland have been given yet another extension although...
by Will Frecknall | 24 Apr 2017 | News
Our previous chairman Professor Les Lumsdon is closely involved in developing an innovative railway based walking trail. Following a feasibility study, the go-ahead has been given for implementing this new exciting project. Trail in the Making will start in the old...
by Will Frecknall | 24 Apr 2017 | News
Most of you will have seen and or experienced the mighty upheaval outside Barrs Court Station as contractors drive through the Hereford City Link road as part of Herefordshire Council’s all singing, all dancing roads policy to help solve Hereford’s transport problem....
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