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HS2 station awarded outstanding rating for environmental design
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HS2’s west London station has been awarded an outstanding score for its environmental design.
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West Coast Railways can resume Jacobite train services, says safety body
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The train service featured in the Harry Potter movies can resume after being granted a temporary exemption to a safety rule.
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What’s inside the September issue of Rail Express?
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Welcome to the September edition of Rail Express, and High Speed Trains are dominating the news.
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From the archive: The Andover and Redbridge Railway
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The story of The Andover and Redbridge Railway (The Sprat and Winkle Line), written by John Moreton, first published in The Railway Magazine in January 1910.
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Storm Antoni blocks 100 miles of railway
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Storm Antoni saw 78mph winds hit the UK and trees blown down – blocking 100 miles of railway between Exeter and Penzance.
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Colleagues visiting every London station to fundraise for boy with cancer
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Colleagues are visiting every London Tube and railway station to raise money for a train-obsessed four-year-old boy to receive life-saving cancer treatment abroad.
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HS2 ‘unachievable’ according to major projects body
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The HS2 programme has received an “unachievable” rating by the official infrastructure watchdog.
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National Railway Museum Opens Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery
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The National Railway Museum’s largest new gallery in more than a decade has opened to the public today after five years in development.
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Ticket office closures consultation extended
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A consultation on ticket office closures which was due to end today has been extended to September 1, the Rail Delivery Group has announced.
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New book tracks the global history of the early days of the iron railway
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The Coming of the Railway is the first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway. Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution – one that would truly change the world. In…
