Just outside the county town of Shrewsbury, UK, workers pace the elevated halls of Severn Bridge Junction – the largest operational mechanical signal box in the world. Since 1904, it has provided safe ...

The signalling update is part of Belgium’s railway operator’s efforts to modernise infrastructure to meet current passenger and freight demands. Credit: Solutions30 Belgium’s national railway ...

An accessible, reliable public transport network plays a huge part in every community, and last year, the UK’s Department for Transport recognised the crucial role rail can play to ease isolation for ...

Modernisation of signalling systems will see 80% of old style mechanical boxes in the UK taken out of use over the next 10 to 15 years. Historic Scotland and rail operator Network Rail said the survey ...

A signal box in Surrey will soon direct its last train after more than 130 years of service - but it is far from being consigned to the history books. The Grade II-listed signal box at Haslemere still ...

Alstom, in an effort to reduce its debt load and negative cash flow position, on April 19 formalized a binding agreement with Knorr-Bremse AG, parent company of New York Air Brake (NYAB), to sell its ...

History has been made this weekend as the final steam train was signalled through the railway by signal boxes in Farncombe, Petersfield and Haslemere. Ashley Hillier signalled the final steam train ...

The semaphore signals at Manea were the last in use on the Ely to Peterborough line (stock image) A railway historian says he believes the traditional semaphore signals removed from a rural railway ...