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  • Celebrations at the launch of the £1 ticket promotion in February

    London Northwestern Railway: Bargain £1 ticket promotion extended on Marston Vale Line

    A special ticket promotion launched to celebrate the return of train services on the Marston Vale Line is being extended for a further three months, operator London Northwestern Railway (LNR) has announced today.
    Thousands of passengers have taken advantage of the promotional £1 single fare (50p for children) on the route, which runs between Bedford and Bletchley, since services resumed on Mond

  • Community projects given green light thanks to funding from London Northwestern Railway

    Community projects given green light thanks to funding from London Northwestern Railway

    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

  • London Northwestern Railway: Passengers reminded of Euston closure to main line services over Easter weekend

    London Northwestern Railway: Passengers reminded of Euston closure to main line services over Easter weekend

    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

  • London Northwestern Railway: ‘Travel either side’ advice for West Coast Main Line passengers this Easter bank holiday

    London Northwestern Railway: ‘Travel either side’ advice for West Coast Main Line passengers this Easter bank holiday

    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

  • London Northwestern Railway: Competition open to name train on Marston Vale Line

    London Northwestern Railway: Competition open to name train on Marston Vale Line

    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

  • Rail users and members of Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership with Iain Stewart MP and Mohammad Yasin MP at Bletchley Station

    London Northwestern Railway: Full timetable resumes on Marston Vale Line

    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

  •  Passengers thanked after West Coast main line reopens following emergency landslip repairs

    Passengers thanked after West Coast main line reopens following emergency landslip repairs

    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 Class 150 train on the Marston Vale Line.

    London Northwestern Railway: Full timetable to resume on Marston Vale Line as £1 tickets launched

    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

  • The landslide at Church Lawton, in Warwickshire

    Passengers urged to check before travelling as landslip causes travel disruption between Birmingham and London

    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 issues warning to fare evaders after thousands fined

    London Northwestern Railway issues warning to fare evaders after thousands fined

    Bosses at London Northwestern Railway (LNR) have issued a warning to fare evaders after new figures released today revealed the company issued thousands of fines for non-payment last year.
    The warning comes one year after the national Penalty Fare for ticketless travel increased to a minimum of £100 in a bid to cut fare evasion.
    In 2023, LNR and sister company West Midlands Railway issued a

  • Rail industry announces positive findings of long-term University of Cambridge research project into staff safety and body-worn cameras

    Rail industry announces positive findings of long-term University of Cambridge research project into staff safety and body-worn cameras

    Rail industry and the University of Cambridge announce findings of multi-year research project around body-worn cameras for rail staff Research shows that staff wearing cameras decreases assault rate by nearly 50 per cent and has “a substantial impact on court outcomes” Body-worn cameras have a powerful impact in stopping assaults from happening, by acting as a visible deterrent Rail industry pla

  • Major signalling upgrade on the West Coast main line over four days in January to kick off the New Year

    Major signalling upgrade on the West Coast main line over four days in January to kick off the New Year

    Network Rail is completing an £85million investment into the signalling on the West Coast main line between Rugeley and Colwich on Sunday 14 and from Saturday 20 until Monday 22 January.
    During that time, the section of the railway between Rugby and Stafford will be closed so engineers can connect the new signals that have been installed in stages since 2017. The work has involved upgrading:

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