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From Victorian feats of engineering to cutting edge contemporary designs, we've ranked the UK’s most eye-catching railway ...
The company will forge more than 337,000 tonnes of track in a deal safeguarding its future for the next five years.
Strikes, overcrowding and failures. British railways are in a bad way. After cuts to its flagship HS2 high speed project, experts say it’s not likely to get better.
The move is expected to safeguard thousands of jobs at the Scunthorpe plant and reinforce the UK's manufacturing sector.
Railway bosses who own the UK's 'rolling stock' have existed since the Tories' controversial privatisation of British Rail in the 1990s – but is this system really working for every day Brits?
Great British Railways is launched, after a fashion – but what happens next? ... “It’s the right decision, at the right time, to take the brakes off the UK economy and rebuild Britain.
Two months after being saved by the government, British Steel's Scunthorpe plant is celebrating securing a five-year contract from Network Rail to supply 337,000 tonnes of long and short rail ...
WHEN the railways were privatised 25 years ago, Prime Minister John Major said that it was to stimulate competition on the tracks. Now, as the model they used to break up the railways is falling ap… ...
Great British Railways: What powers will the new body have and will it cure our love-hate relationship with rail? Britain’s first publicly accountable body for the industry since 2006 will own ...
Trains on UK railways now almost entirely state-owned – by foreign countries. Extensive state-ownership exists among UK rail operators, it just doesn't involve the British state ...