SCOTLAND's transport minister Mr Humza Yousaf was shown mock-ups of new sleeping cars at a warehouse near Edinburgh on June 30 by Mr Peter Strachan, managing director of Caledonian Sleeper.
BRITAIN's secretary of state for transport Mr Patrick McLoughlin launched Great Western Railway's (GWR) new fleet of Hitachi class 800 inter-city trains on June 30 with an inaugural trip on a bi-mode set from Reading to London Paddington.
A £9m project to replace 66 separate passenger information systems with one national system called Darwin was launched across the British railway network on June 28.
MTR Corporation has pulled out of the competition for Britain's West Midlands franchise, leaving just two shortlisted bidders in the running.
A total of 57.9 billion urban public transport journeys were made in the European Union (EU) in 2014 according to a study released by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) on June 20, its highest level since 2000.
MTR Corporation and FirstGroup announced on June 16 that they will form a joint venture to bid for Britain's South Western franchise after the arrangement was approved by the Department for Transport.
THE new West Midlands Combined Authority centred on Birmingham, Britain, is drawing up plans through Transport for West Midlands, which comes into force this month, to expand the rail network under a £4bn 10-year transport investment plan.
FIRST Group announced on June 8 that its subsidiary Great Western Railway has finaised an agreement with Porterbrook Leasing to lease 37 new four-car Bombardier class 387 Electrostar EMUs, in addition to the eight sets already on order.
BRITISH Steel, which was formed following the purchase of Tata Steel's Long Products Europe division by Greybull Capital in May, has launched a new premium-coated rail called Zinoco.
THE opening of an extension of the Wolverhampton - Birmingham Midland Metro light rail line to Birmingham New Street station finally took place on May 30 following track remedial works which had forced the postponement of the original opening scheduled for May 22.
