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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discountsGet Simon Calder’s Travel emailThe train drivers’ union, Aslef, has announced the next round of industrial action[1] in its long and bitter dispute with 14 English …
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Northern Rail has released 5 million cut-price tickets in a four day flash sale this week. 1 million 50p adult fares are on offer until Thursday (September 7) on a number of routes, including from Cheshire stations.
The firm has also released four mill…
Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the worldSign up to our free Morning Headlines emailThe British train stations with the worst cancellation rates have been revealed, including at least three stations in Manchester…
Richard Clinnick witnesses the arrival of the first Class 93 and provides all there is to know about the new tri-mode locomotive.
No. 93001 stands at Worksop on July 1, having just been unloadedfrom the road transport that had brought the locomotive f…
Concerns are continuing to grow for a teenage boy last seen five days ago, who police say uses trains to ‘travel around the country’.
Rhys Blake, 15, was last seen on Wednesday August 16 at 3pm in the Ruskin Road area of Crewe. It is believed he was we…
Work involved excavating 14,000 tonnes of earth, building a 140 metre retaining wall and moving a 2,600 tonne bridge deck 130 metres into place under the South Staffordshire freight railway.
The work was carried out during a 10 week blockade. It was co…
Everyone from royalty and heads of state to rappers, world-class footballers and film stars has sat behind its hand-stitched leather steering wheels, sharing the experience that comes with owning an icon of the motoring world.
Bentley has the desirabil…
HS2[1] has finished building a bridge at Streethay near Lichfield[2] in Staffordshire[3].
The bridge was built by HS2[4]’s West Midlands[5] civils contractor, Balfour Beatty VINCI, and designed by Mott MacDonald as part of a Design Joint Venture with S…
Britain has endured its fair share of doomed prestige projects, said Larry Elliott in The Guardian[1], but “as white elephants go, HS2 is in a class of its own”. Since the high-speed rail link got the formal parliamentary go-ahead in 2012, it has becom…