Aerial view of first ECML ETCS train (717007) leaving Welwyn Garden City // Credit: Network Rail Over the bank holiday, a huge step was taken in the £1.4 billion East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP).

WASHINGTON - Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have asked the Federal Railroad Administration to waive cab-signal requirements that otherwise would restrict where UP’s 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 could ...

Digital in-cab signalling has been used by passenger trains on the East Coast Main Line for the first time.

Network Rail, the UK railway infrastructure manager, has announced the completion of digital in-cab signalling tests on the East Coast Main Line. The digital signalling trials are part of the £1.4bn ...

GTR can now run its Class 717 fleet using Level 2 European Train Control System digital signalling. Credit: Govia Thameslink Railway. UK-based train operating company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the third day of a Cheyenne, Wyo., to Denver trip, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 whistles past a feed mill a few miles south ...