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Brighton’s Electric Railway – The seaside line that sparked a transport revolution
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To the untrained eye, Brighton’s Volk’s Electric Railway may appear to be just another seaside tramway, a relic from the resort’s Victorian heyday. However, it is no less than Britain’s first electric railway, and the oldest in the world to be still running, and therefore of paramount international importance. Magnus Volk did not invent the…
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Network Rail admits health and safety failings over fatal crash
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Network Rail has admitted health and safety failings over a rail crash that claimed three lives.
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Network Rail due in court over fatal crash
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Network Rail is due in court over a train crash which claimed three lives in 2020.
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10 exciting steam galas taking place in the UK this autumn
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The year might be starting to wind down, but there’s still plenty of excitement to be had on the heritage railway lines this autumn – here are some events taking place up and down the country over the next couple of months.
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Great Beeching Survivors
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While banner-waving protestors who gathered outside stations on the last day of services on their local line may have felt that they were wasting their breath against a Government ‘one size fits all’ policy, that the consultation procedures were purely academic, and that the Labour government which pledged to reverse the cuts re-engaged on that…
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Cheers to the Great Central Beer Festival
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The Great Central Railway’s annual beer festival takes place over four days this week.
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More than 680,000 responsed to consultation on ticket office closures
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More than 680,000 responses were submitted to a consultation on proposals for a widespread closure of railway station ticket offices, Transport Focus and London TravelWatch have said.
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44 percent of trains delayed or cancelled in first half of 2023
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More than two out of five train services in Britain during the first half of the year were delayed, new figures show.
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Hundreds gather at demonstration against rail ticket office closures
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Hundreds gathered outside Downing Street as part of a demonstration against plans to close ticket offices in railway stations on Thursday.
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Police officer hit by train while helping distressed man dies
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A police officer who was hit by a train while trying to save a distressed man on the tracks has died, Nottinghamshire Police said.