England says goodbye to long-serving HSTs
The last High Speed Trains ran in England on Saturday, when GWR operated four-car ‘Castle Class’ sets in Cornwall between Plymouth and Penzance. The career of the HSTs has spanned almost half a century. HSTs began running on British Rail’s Western Region in 1976, and were then used on other routes which included CrossCountry as well as the West Coast, Midland and East Coast Main Lines.
First railways to join Manchester's Bee Network namedThe Mayor of Greater Manchester named the first railways which will join the region’s Bee Network next year, as he unveiled a Northern Class 323 electric unit in promotional Bee Network livery at Manchester Piccadilly.
National Passenger Survey replaced by new statisticsThe results of a new four-weekly survey of passengers which has replaced the National Passenger Survey have been published by the Rail Delivery Group. The twice-yearly National Passenger Survey was launched in 1999 and ran until 2020, when work on it was halted by the Covid pandemic. The replacement Rail Customer Experience Survey started in July, and gathers views from passengers over four week periods.
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