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Testing at speed of ETCS OBU has been successfully completed for the train which provides the largest inter-city fleet on the ECML.
On Saturday 6 September 2025, a UK Railtours charter - The Industria Ditat - visited the 13,000 m² Alstom Transport Technology Centre as it traversed rare track across the British network on its journey between Hertfordshire and North Wales.
Alstom will be opening its Glasgow Traincare Centre to the public on Sunday 12 October to celebrate the historic depot’s 150th anniversary.
A specialist HS2 engineering team is preparing to move a 112 m long, 1,631 tonne steel structure over a section of Lawley Middleway - part of Birmingham’s ring road this August.
In January 2025, Virgin Group announced that it planned to order “a dozen high-speed trains to challenge Eurostar’s ‘monopoly’ in the Channel Tunnel”.
DB Cargo UK has started work on the fitment of ETCS OBUs to nine of its Class 66 locomotives.
Eurostar announced that from 15 December 2025, it will operate five direct trains daily in each direction, offering passengers even greater flexibility and convenience when traveling between the UK and the Netherlands.
Alstom announced that the latest exhibit confirmed for The Greatest Gathering is Eurostar Class 373 power car 3999.
The new Piccadilly line trains will begin operating in the second half of 2026.
The Royal Train will be decommissioned ahead of the current contract expiring in March 2027.
On 27 June 2025, Getlink has introduced a refreshed Group brand identity and revealed a new brand architecture for its entities.
Eurostar has announced positive year-end results and growth for the third year running, alongside brand-new destinations the business intends to serve with its new trains.
Maritime Transport, the UK’s leading provider of integrated road and rail freight logistics, has launched a new rail freight service connecting DP World Southampton with its Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) at SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton (SLPN).
On 29 May 2025, HS2 has revealed the first section of platform to be installed for Britain’s new high-speed railway.
The construction of two parallel viaducts that will carry HS2 trains over the M6 near Birmingham Airport has taken a major step forward, with the first section of structural steelwork now complete.