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Rail industry

August 2024

  • ‘It’s not until we hit the Hunter Valley with its duplicated tracks that the Xplorer achieves a constant speed, and we pulled into Sydney’s Central station just before 5pm.’

    The rural network
    Regional trains in NSW are old, slow and half-empty – but I still enjoy the ride

    Michael Burge
  • An LNER train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh

    Aslef train drivers announce 22 days of strike action on east coast mainline

  • temporary yellow barriers cordon off the platform gates at waterloo beneath the huge black and gold electronic info board.

    Aslef train drivers reach deal that could end rail strikes after two years of chaos

  • A train moving on tracks by a sea wall.

    Minister warns CrossCountry about ‘dire’ service amid reduced timetable

July 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Reeves must guarantee HS2 runs to Euston, spending cuts or not

    Nils Pratley
  • Artist impression issued by HS2 of an early visualisation of its trains

    HS2 reveals £2bn in costs linked to Sunak’s downgrade of line

  • Passengers at the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras station in central London.

    Further Eurostar cancellations hold up Paris 2024 passengers

  • The Gare de Lyon train station in Paris.

    French rail network hit by arson attacks before Olympics opening ceremony

  • West coast fares could rise to incentivise people ‘to not travel by rail’, UK watchdog says

  • Is the UK resilient enough to withstand a major cyber-attack?

  • The Guardian view on the king’s speech: a new era of state intervention begins

  • Labour to hold talks with Aslef over rail strikes next week

  • Scotland and Westminster join forces on vaping, rail and renting reform

  • Unions hail UK’s rail renationalisation bills as a return to ‘public service’

  • Labour summons bosses of worst-performing train operators to meetings

  • Royal Mail to stop using its own freight trains after almost 200 years

  • ‘We’ll move fast and fix things’: the big transport issues for Labour

June 2024

  • Debris from a Norfolk Southern freight train lies scattered and burning along the tracks

    Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows

    Rain and snow samples from Wisconsin to Maine and North Carolina after crash show highest pH levels over last decade
  • Commuters arrive at Waterloo station during the morning rush hour.

    Rail season ticket use in Great Britain falls to record low

    Number of rail trips using season tickets now 13%, down from 34% before the pandemic
  • a bullet train passes through a city

    ‘The time is right’ for US to catch up on high-speed rail, says British Amtrak exec

    With half a dozen US rail projects in the works, Andy Byford thinks Americans will soon clamor for 200mph train lines
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