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£50bn down the line, trains are worse than ever

19.11.09
Far from the grandiose promises of ministers and the Queen's Speech, there's a more simple statement that sums up the start of the day for thousands in the nation's capital... more

Clapham Junction is 'second worst station in country'

17.11.09
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Mr Balls takes a risk with schools cash bid

17.11.09
Just as a poll carried out for the BBC reveals a majority of the public would prefer spending cuts to raising taxes to get Britain out of the red, the Children's Secretary, Ed Balls, has applied for an inflation-busting boost to his own budget... more

Rail boss tells staff: Take the £12-a-head bus, the train's much too expensive

11.11.09
Senior rail boss orders staff to travel to a conference by coach because the train costs too much... more

Safety fears over railway cuts

05.11.09
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Rail staff cuts could lead to new disaster, warns union

05.10.09
Cuts in railway maintenance could trigger another crash on the scale of the Paddington disaster, union bosses warn... more

Safety row as Network Rail makes £1.5bn

03.06.09
Network Rail came under attack today for risking a repeat of the Potters Bar or Hatfield fatal disasters despite apparently being hugely profitable ... more

The trains now arriving... are a record 90% on time

26.05.09
Record numbers of trains are now running on time, as Network Rail reveals 90% annual punctuality for the first time since records began in 1992... more

Euston's £1bn makeover hits the buffers in credit crunch

24.04.09
A £1billion redevelopment of Euston railway station has been put on ice because of the economic crisis, it has emerged... more

Unions fear thousands of job losses at Network Rail

17.04.09
Unions fear Network Rail is drawing up plans for redundancies which could run into thousands... more

Network Rail promises £35 billion railway revolution

31.03.09
The head of Network Rail has promised the biggest expansion of the national railway system since the days of the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel... more

Network Rail boss 'needs Crossrail like a hole in the head', report claims

02.03.09
Britain's most senior rail chief has suggested he needs London's £16 billion Crossrail project "like a hole in the head", a secret report has claimed... more

Drivers trying to beat trains at crossings

09.02.09
Three motorists a week risk causing a serious crash by racing to beat the train at level crossings, Network Rail revealed... more

Safety fears as Network Rail cuts track work to save cash

23.01.09
Fears over more late and cancelled trains escalated as Network Rail announced it is cutting back on the amount of worn out track it replaces in order to save cash... more

Turnaround veteran for Network Rail

20.01.09
Transport: One of Britain’s leading industrialists is to head the board at Network Rail. Rick Haythornthwaite has been given the nod to succeed Sir Ian McAllister this summer ... more

Rail bosses face grilling over Euston failures

08.01.09
Network Rail bosses are in the dock over a string of failures which have brought Britain's busiest railway to its knees... more

100,000 stranded as rail line fails for third time in week

07.01.09
Britain's busiest railway was in meltdown with trains in and out of Euston brought to a virtual standstill... more

Darling’s licence to print money

07.01.09
The fact that the Government is prepared to consider printing more money to tackle the economic crisis, as we report today, is some indication of how far conventional measures have failed to relieve the credit crunch... more

Train users at daily risk as rail bosses 'dispute flaw'

23.10.08
Rail passengers are being put at risk of catastrophic derailments similar to the Potters Bar disaster, secret data from safety inspectors has revealed... more

Weekend of strikes hits National Rail

08.08.08
Rail union bosses have announced four days of strikes starting next Friday... more

Rail bosses reveal radical revamp plan for Waterloo

28.07.08
Waterloo station is set to be transformed, with the concourse sunk to the level of the Eurostar terminal... more

Record nine out of 10 trains arriving on time

06.06.08
At last some good news for commuters - nine out of 10 trains are now on time, the best performance ever... more

Rail upgrades at risk as budget is slashed by £3bn

05.06.08
Multi-billion plans to improve train services for London commuters were put "at risk" when Network Rail's budget was slashed by more than £3 billion... more

Network Rail told: Improve or face competition

03.06.08
The rail regulator has warned Network Rail that it will lose its monopoly if it does not put an end to trains running late and engineering works taking longer than scheduled... more

Commuters seconds from bridge disaster

29.05.08
An investigation has begun into how part of a bridge fell on to the main railway line into Liverpool Street station... more

Branson warns of more misery on key rail line

23.05.08
Sir Richard Branson has predicted further misery for rail passengers on the West Coast Mainline as the route undergoes a £8.6 billion upgrade... more

Bank holiday rail chaos on the way as stations and lines face shutdown

29.04.08
Hundreds of thousands of rail passengers face major disruption over the May Day bank holiday weekend with the closure of large sections of the mainline network... more

This is a railway unfit for the 21st century

25.03.08
Once again commuters returning from holiday face rail delays - yet fares keep going up. Now only a radical shake-up will give us the service we need, says one transport expert... more

Rail signal fiasco delays thousands

25.03.08
Thousands of rail commuters were delayed today when a vital signal was locked on red for more than two hours... more

Arise Sir Ian... and pay £14m for rail fiasco

28.02.08
Network Rail fined a record £14 million for the New Year travel fiasco - on the same day its chairman picks up a knighthood. ... more

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