ENGLAND cricket legend Stuart Broad CBE today joined South Western Railway (SWR) to celebrate the rollout of the Arterio fleet, officially naming one of their trains the Nighthawk in London Waterloo. The former One Day and Twenty20 captain unveiled the Nighthawk a short trip up the line from Vauxhall, home to the Oval cricket ground […]
South Western Railway has dedicated one of its trains to the D-Day Story Museum in Portsmouth to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings Local school children, South Western Railway colleagues, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Royal Navy sailors, and others attended the special event at Portsmouth Harbour station For its journey to Portsmouth, the […]
Network Rail is thanking customers for their patience whilst engineers carried out reliability upgrades between Hounslow, Staines and Windsor & Eton Riverside to support the reliable running of the railway and South Western Railway services. The railway reopened and services resumed as planned this morning (Tuesday 16 January) following three days of upgrades from Saturday […]
South Western Railway is refurbishing parts of the iconic Art Deco style Richmond station in South West London South Western Railway, Network Rail and the Railway Heritage Trust are funding a small programme of improvements with hopes of more refurbishment in the future The station’s entrance will be transformed and customer toilets will also be […]
SWR is the first Train Operating Company to use new form of cutting-edge technology to improve station accessibility myEyes app uses Near Field Technology to guide customers with sight loss around stations Three-month trial taking place at Vauxhall and Putney stations In an industry first, South Western Railway (SWR) has embarked on a trial of […]
Network Rail engineers will be working on tracks near Salisbury station on 18 December, meaning buses will replace South Western Railway and Great Western Railway trains between Salisbury and Andover/Romsey/Southampton until early afternoon. The work will complete repairs to the track at the junction outside Fisherton Tunnel in the city, damaged in an incident in […]
