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It is now over 200 years since the world’s first steam railway locomotive made its maiden voyage along a primitive plateway in South Wales – in 1804 Richard Trevithick’s high-pressure steam locomotive successfully hauled a loaded train a distance of nine miles at an average speed of two mph.
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A Government minister has insisted the HS2 railway line “is being built” following reports that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are in talks about scrapping the project’s second stage.
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Network Rail has been fined £6.7 million after admitting health and safety failings over a rail crash that claimed three lives in 2020.
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Network Rail has admitted health and safety failings over a rail crash that claimed three lives.
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Network Rail is due in court over a train crash which claimed three lives in 2020.
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More than 680,000 responses were submitted to a consultation on proposals for a widespread closure of railway station ticket offices, Transport Focus and London TravelWatch have said.
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More than two out of five train services in Britain during the first half of the year were delayed, new figures show.
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Hundreds gathered outside Downing Street as part of a demonstration against plans to close ticket offices in railway stations on Thursday.
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A police officer who was hit by a train while trying to save a distressed man on the tracks has died, Nottinghamshire Police said.
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Engineers, clerical and production staff at a railway supply company will start a four-day strike on Tuesday in a dispute over pay.
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