Freightliner renamed locomotive 90040 as The Railway Mission at a ceremony in Crewe. It is the first locomotive to carry Freightliner’s refreshed branding after the CMA CGM takeover, and Freightliner also donated £1,000 to Railway Mission.
Chiltern Railways said it will run over 90% of services on 12 November despite RMT industrial action, with some Birmingham, Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa services reduced or suspended. The operator also said all East West Rail services will have two staff on board.
At Wandsworth Town station, piling for new lift shafts has been completed as part of a £19.8 million step-free access upgrade. The island platform is back in use, and the station is expected to become fully accessible in summer 2027. The project is funded by the UK Department for Transport and Wandsworth Council.
Freightliner has introduced a new logo after CMA CGM completed its acquisition of the UK intermodal business on 29 January 2026. The deal covered rail and road operations, inland terminals and the Freightliner brand, while heavy haul, Rotterdam Rail Feeding, and operations in Poland and Germany were excluded.
Alstom said first-half revenue rose 3% to €9.3 billion and orders rose to €11.0 billion, but it cut its 2026/27 outlook. The company cited technical issues and testing requirements on the Coradia Max platform and revised margins on selected rolling stock projects.
Wensleydale Railway in Yorkshire received free track design support from TECS Ltd, which surveyed Leeming Bar yard and Bedale station curve and offered to complete design work for a yard reconfiguration and track relay.
Summer Suites is a freehold serviced apartment project in Johor Bahru by Connoisseur Properties, about 850m from JB CIQ and the future Bukit Chagar RTS Station. The 44-storey tower has 748 units, smart-home features and more than 20 facilities, with completion targeted for 2029.
Bala Lake Railway in North Wales will run two Santa steam trains on 12–13 December 2026. Pre-booked passengers will travel from Llanwchllyn to Bala Pen-y-Bont and visit Santa’s Grotto; children receive gifts and adults get a hot drink or cherry.
Maersk is launching a twice-weekly intermodal rail service between Haparanda on the Swedish-Finnish border and APM Terminals Gothenburg, with plans to increase frequency to six round trips per week. The electric rail link will move containerised freight from northern Sweden and Finland to Gothenburg for onward ocean connections, including Asia.
Opinion piece on the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), saying the project is approaching a defining moment in Malaysia’s infrastructure development and discussing benefits for passengers.
RailStock Finland has ordered 21 additional Stadler FLIRT electric multiple units, expanding a programme launched in 2022. The four-car trains will be built at Stadler’s Siedlce plant in Poland for Finland’s broad-gauge network and winter conditions, bringing the total fleet under the programme to 41 units.
Opinion piece argues that ECRL’s high cost, loan burden and limited ridership or cargo capacity make its financial return doubtful, and says its value should be judged by wider economic spillovers rather than operating profits.
Bay Area voters are backing Measure RTM, a 14-year transit sales tax for operators including BART, Caltrain and AC Transit. Preliminary results suggest it will prevent BART’s planned 2027 station closures and major service cuts, though BART still says a structural funding gap remains.
The European Commission approved €29.3 million in German state aid for a new intermodal freight terminal at Stolberg Hauptbahnhof near Aachen. The terminal, part of the Euregio Railport project, is planned to open in 2035 and handle 740-metre freight trains, supporting rail freight flows to and from Benelux ports.
VIA Rail will provide free train travel for young patients and families to six children’s hospitals in Ontario and Quebec under a three-year partnership with Canada’s Children’s Hospital Foundations. The program builds on a similar London, Ontario collaboration launched in April 2026.
Danish State Railways awarded ELL a EUR 26.35 million lease contract for up to 12 Siemens Vectron AC locomotives for regional and long-distance passenger services. The contract includes maintenance, spare parts and availability support, with initial entry into service expected from December 2026.
Hanoi has signed EPC turnkey contracts for five driverless metro lines, Lines 1, 2, 8, 10 and 14, totalling about 253.5 km. The programme targets GoA4 automation, CBTC, depots, and digital delivery tools, with completion planned for 2030.
British Transport Police released an image and appealed for information after a fight involving three people and weapons at Worthing station in West Sussex on 11 October 2026. Two men, aged 18 and 22, have been arrested and charged.
Northern is supporting the Poppy Express on trains in Yorkshire, with volunteers selling poppies to raise funds for the Royal British Legion ahead of Remembrance Day. Free travel is also being offered to veterans and military personnel for remembrance services on 8 November.
Paul Middleton returns with a new five-episode Steam Train Diaries series on More4 from 12 November. The programme visits several heritage railways, including North Yorkshire Moors Railway, where bridge repairs are under way and locomotive Omaha is being converted from coal to oil.
Transport for Greater Manchester will start redeveloping Bury Interchange later this month in two phases. The first phase includes a new footbridge, lift access to Metrolink platforms, platform resurfacing, canopy replacement, and upgrades to lighting, signage, CCTV, passenger information displays and ticketing facilities.
The Polar Express train ride will return to South Devon Railway from 27 November to 23 December, with themed journeys, characters, entertainment, and visits to Father Christmas. Tickets are expected to sell quickly.
UIC will hold the 5th Global FRMCS Conference on 24–25 November 2026 in Paris. The event will cover FRMCS technical developments, V3p specifications, large-scale testing under FP2 MORANE 2, and global deployment challenges for next-generation railway communications.
CFL multimodal launched an intermodal rail service between Bettembourg-Dudelange and Wrocław on 20 October 2026, operating four round trips per week. It also increased its Bettembourg–Lübeck service from three to four weekly round trips after recent operational disruption.
MCMC is testing internet coverage along the 378km Phase 1 East Coast Rail Link route from Gombak to Kota Baru, including 16 stations and tunnels, ahead of the Dec 12 launch. Maxis, appointed by MRL as the 4G infrastructure provider, has presented its implementation plan.