London travel news LIVE: Minor delays on the Metropolitan and Waterloo and City line
Commuters look set for a relatively trouble-free start to the week with few problems being reported on the Tube early on ...
How Sir Nigel Gresley Class A4 steam locomotives were built for speed
Sir Nigel Gresley’s Class A4 steam locomotives with their distinctive wedge-shaped front end made their first appearance 90 ...
Paris train services slowly resume after WW2 bomb defused
An unexploded World War Two bomb found near Gare du Nord station in Paris was defused on Friday after trains to and from the ...
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Why now is the time to build new oil pipelines: 'We've got to get our act together'
One June day in 1996, three years after he became prime minister, Jean Chrétien made his way to a recreation centre in Fort McMurray, now the gritty northern Alberta heart of the oil sector, sitting ...
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Network Rail to host events for Oxford locals explaining long-running project
Network Rail is putting on a series of events in Oxford, to inform residents about the long-running improvement project by the city’s station. Botley Road, one of the main ... put you at the heart of ...
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Virgin eyes train routes from UK to EU capitals
Businessman Richard Branson's Virgin Group is seeking to raise 700 million pounds ($905 million) in a bid to launch a rival ...
British Rail wasn’t all bad. Sixty years after the brand launched we should remember its marketing successes
The railways were nationalised under the 1947 Transport Act and managed by “British Railways”. Back in the 1950s, the railway had a poor reputation. As one survey respondent described, the railway was ...
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New Great British Railways logo to be unveiled in bid to ‘restore pride’ in railways
A new Great British Railways logo that will “restore pride” in the British train network is set to be unveiled in May on the first trains to be nationalised under the Labour government.