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First electric-only freight train firm Varamis Rail starts moving parcels
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The UK’s first electric-only rail freight operator has started moving parcels between Scotland and the Midlands.
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Train companies make ‘best and final offer’ to resolve rail dispute
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Train operating companies have made a “best and final offer” to the biggest rail workers union in a bid to break the deadlocked dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.
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Calls to nationalise TransPennine Express after ‘one of the worst days yet’
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Ministers must nationalise TransPennine Express following “one of the worst days yet” for passengers, according to Labour.
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Britain’s Got Talent stars are heading to East Devon
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Dinomania from Britain’s Got Talent is returning to Seaton Tramway in February.
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Celebrating the world’s first locomotive works
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Special events are being held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the opening of the world’s first locomotive works, Stephenson’s works in in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Train drivers announce two more strike days in February
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Train drivers are to stage fresh strikes in early February after a pay offer has been rejected.
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Celebrity steam locomotive to visit NNR
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Visitors to the North Norfolk Railway will have the opportunity to travel on special trains hauled by No. 60163 Tornado.
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Minister hails ‘extraordinary’ HS2 bridge
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HS2 minister Huw Merriman hailed the “extraordinary feat of engineering and architecture” as he inspected construction of what will be the UK’s longest railway bridge.
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Train passengers warned of major disruption after ‘huge’ landslip
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Major disruption is expected after a main railway line collapsed in a “huge” landslip which left one track hanging in mid-air.
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Managing director to leave Severn Valley Railway
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The Severn Valley Railway has announced that its managing director is leaving.