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Passengers evacuated Westminster Tube station due to smoke from electrical room
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Westminster underground station has reopened following the evacuation of 100 tube passengers due to billowing smoke coming from an electrical room.
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London flash floods cause tube and road closures
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The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering northern areas of England until 10 pm following the overnight flooding in London, causing significant closures on travel services.
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Book of the Week: Diesel Dawn 4
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This account is intended to give an overview of the types of first-generation Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) trains and railbuses that could be seen on BR from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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Hornby: A Model World steams onto Yesterday this October
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UKTV’s new series, Hornby: A Model World, showcases on Yesterday this October, with the well-known manufacturer opening its doors to reveal the lengths their designers and engineers go to create perfectly scaled down locomotives.
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Dry ice pellets to blast leaves off train tracks
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Dry ice will be blasted onto railway lines across northern England in a trial aimed at removing leaves more efficiently than current methods.
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HS2 tunneling machine completes first mile under the Chilterns
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The first 2,000 tonne tunnelling machine passed the one mile mark this week during the construction of the first tunnels for HS2.
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Network Rail announces £25m investment for critical Wales and Borders transport link
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Details revealed of a multi-million-pound plan to rescue a railway line increasingly ravaged by climate change and extreme weather.
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RAIB release report into Hampshire near miss
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into a near miss with a member of staff at Rowlands Castle station in December last year.
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Train firm stripped of franchise over failure to declare £25m of taxpayer cash
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Train operator Southeastern has been stripped of its franchise after failing to declare more than £25 million of taxpayer funding, the Department for Transport (DfT) has announced.
