Transport and Logistics Network
A few weeks ago, we asked our readers to tell us about their experiences of what should, on the face of it, be a relatively straightforward task: taking a bike on a train in the UK. After we were bombarded with responses – which ranged from unbridled p…
A pensioner who took a replacement rail service bus from Gloucester Railway Station[1] has described an “absolutely horrendous” experience after being put on a double-decker. With nowhere secure to store luggage, passengers were forced to keep their su…
Two transport firms, one based in Sutton Coldfield[1], have been hit with fines totalling more than £2 million after a depot manager was killed by a reversing lorry in Birmingham[2]. The horrific death took place at The Haulage Group Ltd, then known as…
An irate Audi driver told police he gets ‘so many tickets for parking on a pavement’ in his £80,000 RS6 – but doesn’t believe he should. Soho Road Police issued another penalty in Handsworth[1] today.
Police said the Handsworth driver told them that as…
Wolverhampton’s 164th Mayor has pledged to ‘move forward together’ from tough recent times following his election. Councillor Dr Michael Hardacre was sworn in as the city’s[1] new civic leader while his wife Lynn Plant became the Mayoress at the first …
Mourners will bid their final farewell to an ‘angel’ who was killed in a horror crash. ‘Precious’ Aishwarya Nagar[1] was pronounced dead at the scene of a collision in Coleshill Road, Tamworth[2].
Three others were also injured and taken to hospital wh…
Construction Work on the HS2 site just outside Euston station (Mark Thomas / Alamy Stock Photo)
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HS2 is in danger of becoming a national humiliation. Writer and consultant John Oxley argues that it is part of a growing trend of blocke…
West Mercia Police gave an update this morning following the collision between a red Vauxhall Astra and a white and green DAF lorry on the A458 at Middletown, which also left the two adult drivers with serious injuries.
The woman who was driving the ca…
A stretch of smart motorway only recently opened at a cost of up to £330 million must be scrapped and returned to how it previously operated, according to an MP who insists it is unsafe for drivers. All new smart motorways have been cancelled amid safe…
A woman and a two-year-old child have been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries following a crash involving a lorry in Powys. Police are appealing for information following the serious collision on the A458 at Middletown near Welshpool and …