Nationalisation is when something - such as a service, company or an entire industry - is brought under the control and ownership of the state or government. From just after World War Two until the ...
How do you mark the launch of a new, faster passenger rail service? For one British operator, the answer was to hold a “speed dating” event matching singles from the two endpoints of ...
UK: The creation of Great British Railways provides a 'golden opportunity' to take 'a radical new approach' to tackle the boom and bust investment cycles, according to House of Commons Transport ...
The 6.14am service that runs each Sunday from London Waterloo station to Shepperton rarely carries many passengers. But this weekend, hundreds of rail enthusiasts will board that train, which meanders ...
London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway, both franchises of West Midlands Trains (WMT), are the latest ...
UK: The House of Commons Transport Committee has called for the government to provide more detail about how the rail industry ...
Trains across the UK are set to receive a distinctive red, white, and blue paint scheme, inspired by the Union flag, as part of the government’s ongoing rail nationalisation efforts. The state-owned ...
The U.K.’s new public railway is leaning on well-known, classic symbolism for its visual identity unveiled this month. Train liveries for the new brand will show a design of a stylized Union Jack flag ...
It is set to be a year of change for train services in the West of England. From Great Western Railway (GWR) returning to public ownership to work beginning on the long-awaited Portishead line - what ...
Transpennine Express joins LNER, Northern and Southeastern rail under the DfT’s control. Credit: AlanMorris/Shutterstock Ownership of the British railway system has been hotly contested since it was ...
Today marks 200 years since the world’s first passenger railway journey. On September 27, 1825, around 450 people made the 26-mile journey from Shildon to Stockton in the north-east of England on a ...
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