Accounts of train travel across the country convey what happens when promise meets reality
Travel chaos caused by cabling fault and breakdowns left thousands of passengers stranded
Opposition PRI accuses ruling party of presiding over graft after 13 killed when passenger train careers off tracks
Timelines and funding remain unclear for proposal that has been promised for a decade
Planned £100mn overhaul of train station will seek to end ‘holding pen’ experience for passengers
Labour had pledged to make the network a priority
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Officials said season ticket holders on some of Britain’s busiest routes would save hundreds of pounds annually
Eurotunnel said expected tripling of levy makes planned freight investments untenable
Railway company adapts to increasing Russian strikes on stations, depots and power lines
Europe wrestles with crumbling bridges, narrow tunnels and red tape as it plans how to move an army eastward
A house that was at the centre of the 19th-century rail revolution can now be yours for the weekend
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
Brussels launches €345bn high-speed rail plan to compete with planes
Jakarta is in restructuring talks with Beijing as flagship ‘Whoosh’ railway project racks up losses
Government decision over East London depot access heralds end to 30-year cross-Channel train services monopoly
Granting access to Temple Mills depot breaks Eurostar’s monopoly on London-Paris route
European Commission works on military mobility proposals if Russia continues its aggression beyond Ukraine
Company has applied for ‘open-access’ licence to run trains between London and Rochdale
Trade union says productivity calculations are flawed and change would enable more investment
New fleet from Alstom will allow group to extend routes to Geneva and Frankfurt
Britain’s most troubled rail project forced to postpone work connecting new line with the north
Three train operators defeat legal claim that they charged passengers twice for part of their journeys
New entrants could revitalise and expand rail services from London to continental Europe
Peter Hendy said he is ‘concerned’ by a looming gap left by retiring workers
