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More trains, more seats and quicker journeys as rail industry launches December 2025 timetable: LNER Azuma under electric wires

More trains, more seats and quicker journeys as rail industry launches December 2025 timetable

Sunday 14 Dec 2025

The rail industry has launched the biggest timetable change on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in more than a decade today (Sunday 14 December), as part of a wider set of timetable changes across the network.

All aboard! Railway 200’s exhibition train arrives at London Paddington: Paddington with Inspiration train at Paddington station

All aboard! Railway 200’s exhibition train arrives at London Paddington

Monday 8 Dec 2025
  • A special exhibition train celebrating 200 years of the railway arrived at London Paddington this morning (Monday 8 December) and will be open for visits until Saturday 13 December

 

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More trains, more seats and quicker journeys as rail industry launches December 2025 timetable: LNER Azuma under electric wires

More trains, more seats and quicker journeys as rail industry launches December 2025 timetable

Sunday 14 Dec 2025

The rail industry has launched the biggest timetable change on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in more than a decade today (Sunday 14 December), as part of a wider set of timetable changes across the network.

Passengers advised not to travel on Sunday and Monday in Cumbria due to extreme weather: A Northern train

Passengers advised not to travel on Sunday and Monday in Cumbria due to extreme weather

Saturday 13 Dec 2025

Rail passengers have been warned to expect disruption on Sunday in Cumbria and Lancashire as extreme weather is expected.

London's Charing Cross station remembers 120 years since tragic roof collapse: The Jones family in front of the plaque

London's Charing Cross station remembers 120 years since tragic roof collapse

Friday 12 Dec 2025

The lives of six people have been remembered at Charing Cross station, 120 years to the day since part of the station’s roof collapsed, as Network Rail unveiled a commemorative plaque.

Passengers urged to check before travelling in North West this weekend: Flooding in Cumbria cropped

Passengers urged to check before travelling in North West this weekend

Friday 12 Dec 2025

Rail passengers have been warned to check before travelling this weekend with extremely heavy rain expected.

Picture-perfect peaks: Network Rail plays key role in landmark project to remove pylons from views across Eryri National Park: Eryri photoshop demonstrating pylon removal visual by 2029-2 cropped

Picture-perfect peaks: Network Rail plays key role in landmark project to remove pylons from views across Eryri National Park

Friday 12 Dec 2025

Working in partnership with National Grid, a once-in-a-generation scheme is underway to improve the landscape around the Dwyryd Estuary, in Snowdonia, by re-routing power cables underground.

Safety reminder as timetable change means Sunday trains through village: Shiregate No.10 footpath Metheringham

Safety reminder as timetable change means Sunday trains through village

Friday 12 Dec 2025

Walkers, cyclists, motorists and horse riders are advised of timetable changes affecting level crossings through a Lincolnshire village.

£4m improvements announced for railway between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan: SCM Bridge of Allan

£4m improvements announced for railway between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan

Friday 12 Dec 2025

More than £4m is being invested in the railway line between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan at the beginning of next year.  

Cross-border train operators strengthen collaboration across Scotland’s Railway: LNER Network Rail-100

Cross-border train operators strengthen collaboration across Scotland’s Railway

Thursday 11 Dec 2025

A new team of railway colleagues have begun working in Scotland’s rail operating centre this week, bringing cross-border operators into the state-of-the-art control room for the first time.