Train Manager becomes new Employee Director at Avanti West Coast

Conference brings together Community Rail Partnerships and stakeholders from across West Coast Main Line. 

Avanti West Coast has asked its customers to only travel with a reservation.

Tilting Ale is being served on Avanti West Coast services after it was brought back by popular demand.  

Britain’s most iconic train fleet is to undergo a major refurbishment that will create scores of high-skilled engineering jobs and secure hundreds more roles throughout the UK.

First Trenitalia, whose new Avanti West Coast rail service starts on Sunday 8 December, has today awarded a contract worth more than £350m to Hitachi Rail to provide and maintain 23 new intercity trains (135 carriages), to be built at its County Durham factory.