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Tickets pleas! A need for change • Would a ‘Fare Britannia’ pass ever work in the UK?

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New study urges investment in West of England line

Rail freight fights for paths in timetable recast

LNER kicks off S&DR 200 celebrations with ‘Darlington’ Azuma

FirstGroup reveals more details for Paignton open access services

Prosser sets up safety consultancy

Open access firms confident over new bids

Consultation begins on Fawley’s ‘cheaper than £45 million’ open access service

Landslip shuts line at Gobowen

Beams installed for HS2’s A46 box

Swietelsky Babcock Rail acquires HNRC operations

Remodelling and resignalling moves Cambridge South opening closer

Siemens secures HS2 contracts

East Kilbride line shuts for wiring

Walls refreshed at Stoke station

DfT monitors XC as training backlog reduced

Bradford stations receive upgrade

Union to ballot over Hull Trains driver dismissal

RMT leader Mick Lynch to retire

HGVs strike Midlands railway bridge three times in four days

Cost of Docklands Light Railway’s delayed new trains nears £1 billion

Javelin stuck in Ramsgate siding

Camden road bridge replaced

Class 37 employed on monitoring duties

Northumberland Line attracts thousands in first month

Plan for pay-as-you-go in Manchester in early 2026

TfL awaits approval for Bakerloo Line upgrade

‘66’ recovered and in for repairs

Tyne & Wear Metro bids to overcome setbacks

Third platform for Salford Crescent

New WCML bridge to be installed in January 2026

Southeastern Class 376s to receive mid-life refresh and new blue livery

Project to improve track flaw detection

£100 million refresh for Victorian wrought iron bridge

No decision on crash ‘158s’ as new trains accepted

GWR-bound Class 175s on the move

Northern Class 150 heads for repairs

Electrostars begin Southern switch

Class 66 named

Electric multiple units on the move

RHTT Class 68s back off-lease

Penultimate ‘66’ in GBRf traffic

Coaches at WSR for filming job

NR’s Oxford rail project branded as “shambolic”

Regional News

More LNWR ‘350/2s’ in store

‘Bob’ nameplates

News in pictures • If you have taken a photograph that tells a railway story, please send it to rail@bauermedia.co.uk.

A critical year for HS2’s prospects beyond Birmingham • With HS2 under the spotlight at two Parliamentary committee hearings in December, PHILIP HAIGH examines the plans for a reset in 2025

An open invitation for open access? • Ministers appear to have backed the latest open access deal guaranteeing private operation within a nationalised railway. PETER PLISNER analyses the latest news and the state of play

Open access operations: is the government for or against?

Modern Images Special

Railway heritage on the ‘at risk’ radar • Much is being done to conserve historic rail structures,...