What will passengers notice has changed? Nothing, except that one train has been repainted with the putative Great British Railways logo and will therefore look a bit different.

Project Reach, a partnership between Network Rail, Neos Networks and Freshwave, will see an end to some of the worst signal blackspots on the major rail arteries of Britain as the companies team up to ...

Plans for the government’s flagship rail reform body, Great British Railways (GBR), risk reviving the failings of the past if urgent changes aren’t made, a leading think tank has warned. A new ...

In the 1990s a Conservative government dismembered British Rail, which had run the railways since nationalisation, and embarked on a radical programme of privatisation.

The plan comes ahead of an industry-wide consultation on the Rail Reform Bill, which aims to establish the Great British Railways (GBR) as the governing body for passenger rail — a process that ...

Firstly, history and legacy. In the early 1990s, British railways were at their most commercial and just about breaking even from a financial perspective, albeit on rather limited available capital.