There was a time when to take a British rail journey was to receive a ticket barely changed since Victorian times — a small cardboard rectangle printed with the destination through which the inspector ...

This week’s round-up of business news from the UK railway industry.

By Andy Bruce MANCHESTER, England, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Britain on Tuesday committed to a new rail infrastructure programme ...

The interchange will not have any trains running through it on certain upcoming dates.

Across Europe, governments are pushing travelers to choose trains over planes — but when rail tickets cost far more than budget airline seats, that’s a tough sell. Inflation in the United Kingdom rose ...

The UK Government is failing to meet its own targets to decarbonise rail in the country, according to a new report published by the Railway Industry Association (RIA). The progress report, released on ...

Britain’s worst rail firms are cancelling more than 700 trains a day as passengers face travel chaos this Christmas. Travellers have been warned of limited services, replacement buses and multiple ...

Govia, the Train Operating Company (TOC) responsible for a large network of services in London and the South East of the UK, awarded £62.3m ($79m) in dividends to shareholders in 2023. The figure, ...

Building new railways is an expensive business. Even in ideal circumstances, carving a new route through the landscape costs millions of dollars per mile and can take decades to complete. If you want ...

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Last month’s announcement that the government will scrap phase two of the HS2 rail project, set to run from the West Midlands to Manchester, felt like another nail in the coffin for Britain’s ...