In 2023-2024, Merseyrail had 8,429 train cancellations, jumping to 10,314 in 2024-2025. ... Mayor Rotheram has said he is considering a new operating model for Merseyrail.

The train operator company that formed to run Merseyrail’s network could be given the chance to extend its contract. In 2003, a concession was awarded to a joint venture of Serco and then ...

Look inside the full-scale mock-up model of the new fleet of trains ... we've listed the 13 biggest differences we saw n the new train models. 1. Free Wi-Fi. While Merseyrail does already offer ...

Merseyrail is a cash machine for its private operators, Serco and Transport UK. Since 2003, they’ve taken over £212 million in dividends out of the railway. That is money which should have gone back ...

Train strikes: Southern Rail, Merseyrail and Northern Rail passengers face fresh industrial action, says RMT union. Labour manifesto vows to end moves towards driver only operation ...

Merseyrail's battery-powered trains may have been introduced too soon, a leading railway journalist has said. There have been repeated problems with the new publicly owned fleet of Swiss-built ...

A train operator has two weeks to give "cast-iron" assurances that guards will be retained or risk dispute, rail union RMT has said. Merseyrail plans to introduce a new fleet of 52 driver-only ...

Rail workers in Liverpool have been given a 7.1 per cent pay rise in a deal which will pile pressure on train companies ahead of the second day of nationwide strikes.