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 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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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 should be scrapped in favour of upgrading existing rail routes, according to a free market think tank.
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Two rail workers were killed by a train while there was no official lookout in place, a report has found.
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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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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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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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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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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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