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Passengers travelling with London Northwestern Railway (LNR) are being urged to check their journeys and plan ahead of industrial action.Members of train driver union ASLEF have announced their intention to stage strike action on Wednesday 8 May. No services will operate on any LNR route as a result. In addition, ASLEF members have also announced their intention to stage industrial action
Community rail projects have been given the green light thanks to funding from London Northwestern Railway (LNR).Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 have been made available via the “Your Community, Your Fund” scheme which offers support to projects which benefit both rail passengers and local communities.The scheme, funded by the Department for Transport, is aimed at inspiring people t
Passengers travelling with London Northwestern Railway (LNR) are being urged to check their journeys and plan ahead of industrial action next week.Members of train driver union ASLEF have announced their intention to stage strike action on Friday 5 April. No LNR services will operate on any route as a result. In addition, members of ASLEF have announced their intention to stage industrial
Passengers travelling on the West Coast Main Line with London Northwestern Railway (LNR) are being reminded to travel either side of the Easter with London Euston closed to all main line services across the bank holiday weekend.Due to major track upgrades by Network Rail, there will be no services between London Euston and Milton Keynes Central between Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April inclus
West Coast Main Line passengers are urged to travel either side of the Easter bank holiday weekend with London Euston closed to all main line services during major track upgrades.£13.4 million is being invested across Network Rail's North West & Central region including £7m to upgrade over a kilometre of track between Camden, Bourne End and Colwich Junction which will mean more reliable jo
A competition to name a Class 150 train on the Marston Vale Line to celebrate the reintroduction of the full rail timetable is now open. Operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) is looking for suggestions of names which celebrate people and places along the line between Bedford and Bletchley. LNR has also put a major ticket offer in place which represents a discount of up to 90% on the usual
A full rail timetable has resumed on the Marston Vale Line between Bletchley and Bedford today (Monday 19 February).A partial service has been running on the line since November 2023 when operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) introduced a replacement train fleet. Prior to that, rail replacement had been in operation on the line since December 2022 after the company which maintained the Cl
Network Rail has thanked passengers after completing major repairs to stabilise a railway embankment on the West Coast main line after storms and heavy rain caused a landslip between Coventry and Rugby on Sunday 11 February. The railway between London Euston and Birmingham reopened this afternoon (Tuesday 13 February) after rail engineers closed the line to secure the embankment allowing trai
A full timetable will resume on the Marston Vale Line between Bedford and Bletchley next week, operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) has announced today.A partial timetable has been in operation on the route since November 2023, with four services per day in each direction during weekday morning and afternoon peaks. Prior to this the line had been served by rail replacement buses since De
Passengers travelling on the West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and London are being urged to check their journeys on Monday due to disruption following a landslip near Rugby.Through Monday (12 February), one of the two tracks which connect Coventry and Rugby will remain closed while engineers cut back and clear vegetation from the railway embankment. This critical clearance work will hel
London Northwestern Railway (LNR) is warning passengers not to travel by train this weekend as the operator will be running no services due to industrial action.Members of the ASLEF trade union began an overtime ban on Monday 29 January, which will run to 6 February. As a result services are reduced on some routes. ASLEF will also take strike action on LNR on Saturday 3 February. The impact of
Passengers travelling with London Northwestern Railway (LNR) are being reminded to check their journeys and plan ahead of industrial action. Members of the ASLEF union, representing train drivers, have announced their intention to stage industrial action in the form of an overtime ban between Monday 29 January and Tuesday 6 February inclusive. In addition, members from ASLEF have announced the
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