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Category: Network

Virgin Trains signs off in style with video featuring Mr Blobby

21st November 2019 Shannon Butcher Network, News, Video

With the end of the Virgin Trains franchise taking place at 01:59am on December 8 after 22 years of running trains between London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh, they’re going out with a bang!

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Eurostar marks 25th anniversary with first ‘plastic-free’ train

14th November 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News, World
Eurostar

Eurostar is operating a train with no single-use plastics to mark the 25th anniversary and will plant a tree for every service it runs.

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London to Glasgow passengers choose rail over air

11th November 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News
London to Glasgow passengers choose rail over air

The proportion of people travelling between London and Glasgow by rail rather than air has reached a record level, according to Virgin Trains.

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HS2 ‘will not solve the problems facing rail travellers today’

9th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News
HS2 should be scrapped according to a free market think tank.

HS2 should be scrapped in favour of upgrading existing rail routes, according to a free market think tank.

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No official lookout on tracks before rail workers killed, interim report finds

2nd October 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News
Port Talbot rail accident

Two rail workers were killed by a train while there was no official lookout in place, a report has found.

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5 facts you may not know about the ‘Azuma’ train

2nd October 2019 Ben Stockdale Diesel, Electric, Network, News, Video

LNER launched its first passenger services on the East Coast Main Line on May 15, using the Hitachi-built Class 800 ‘Azuma’ express trains as part of a rolling programme to replace both its Class 91 and Mk4 and HST fleets.

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Six people a month risking lives to cross tracks in Essex

1st October 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News
People-on-the-tracks-at-Grays-level-crossing-in-Essex

Over six people a month are putting their lives at risk by walking across tracks at a level crossing in Grays.

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UK railway news round-up

27th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Metro, Network, News

This week we cover Stephenson’s Rocket returning to the National Railway Museum, a senseless attack at a tube station in London, a Caledonian sleeper service strike and a UN report that claims hundreds of miles of coastal railways are at risk of flooding by 2100.

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Merseyrail strikes called off as union claims progress in talks

26th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News

Strikes planned on Merseyrail in the long running dispute over guards on trains have been called off so talks can continue.

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RMT boss warns of more strikes following re-election

29th August 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News
Mick Cash

The leader of the biggest rail workers union has followed up his re-election with a warning that a wave of strikes and other forms of industrial action will go ahead.

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