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City Spy: Virgin faces a battle in Great North rail race

28.09.09

RAIL veteran Ian Yeowart is rattling the couplings of Virgin Trains by launching an all-new Great North Western Railways company on Virgin routes into Euston... more

GNER gets back on the rails with new train services

24.09.09

New, cut-price train services are to be launched out of Euston to the north of England in the first ever challenge to Virgin Trains' monopoly on the West Coast Main Line... more

Rail firms ‘picking pockets’ with 50% rise in car park charges

15.09.09

Rail bosses were condemned for raising station car parking charges by up to 50 per cent to offset January's small cut in rail fares... more

West Coast trains still running late

03.08.09

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City Spy: The rail truth is hard to track down

17.07.09

The bickering between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic continues. BA chairman Martin Broughton ridiculed Sir Richard Branson this week for the Virgin knight’s call for the Government not to bail out BA... ... more

West Coast line complaints soar

09.07.09

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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

And if you’re planning to get away at the weekend...

21.05.09

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Fenhalls plays fast and loose with valuations

17.04.09

Sibir, the London-listed Russian oil company, continues to excite much City chat. Two former directors are being sued over loans given to one of its largest shareholders and there's talk of BP's Russian joint venture lining up a bid.... more

Virgin train passenger revenues hit the buffers

16.03.09

Virgin Trains users have voted with their feet as the main inter-city service from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow became the first rail company to admit to falling passenger revenues... more

MPs grill rail bosses over fare rises

05.02.09

Rail chiefs faced a barrage of criticism after appearing before MPs to be questioned about inflation-busting fare rises... more

Snow havoc returns to roads and we’re running out of grit

05.02.09

Heavy snow showers swept across central and southern England again, causing travel disruption and a fourth day of school closures... more

Branson has eye on the East Coast Line

03.02.09

Transport: Sir Richard Branson has begun lobbying to take control of train services out of King’s Cross and win Virgin Trains a monopoly on fast intercity trains to the North and Scotland... 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

Second day of chaos on Ł9bn West Coast railway line

06.01.09

The West Coast Main Line - just reopened with new timetables after a Ł9 billion rebuild - is in chaos for the second successive day... more

Is there a family more dysfunctional than Gavin and Stacey's? Yes - mine

23.12.08

The week before Christmas in London is a frantic round of partying, meeting friends for cocktails and catching zeitgeist plays (last weekend I saw Hare, Pinter and the Portobello Panto with gorgeous James Corden)... more

700 National Express jobs axed as rail passengers stay at home

17.12.08

Transport: More than 700 jobs are to go at National Express as the train, coach and bus company reported a downturn in travelling by the public.... more

Ł2 fuse brings Ł9bn upgrade of West Coast line to a halt

15.12.08

The West Coast Main Line was brought to a halt by a Ł2 fuse, only hours after it reopened following its Ł9 billion rebuild... more

Rail fares from Euston set to treble

08.12.08

Thousands of long-distance rail travellers from Euston will see their fares treble under the cover of timetable changes being introduced next week... more

Club that aims to give Eton’s boys an edge

04.12.08

Forget the Bullingdon Club. Forget too, these troubled times. Eton College has started its own club for those keen to get on, credit crunch or not: The Stockbroking Society... more

Stagecoach jolt as City job axe culls commuters

03.12.08

Transport: Stagecoach admits that its commuter train services have become a victim of the financial crisis and the loss of up to 100,000 London jobs... more

Rail lines to shut for at least four days at Christmas

17.11.08

Londoners face transport chaos over Christmas as large sections of the Tube and rail network shut down... more

City job cuts ‘to hit Go-Ahead

23.09.08

Transport: Go-Ahead group shares are set to come under pressure because it appears most exposed to the financial downturn... more

Welcome to Southwold, the new Islington-on-Sea

21.07.08

Londoners' holidays in the past were simple, predictable affairs. Now, in a more liberated age, our leisure options have blossomed, and even the politicians are catching on... more

Insulted and assaulted by a Virgin bureaucrat

14.07.08

Late last night, in the middle of Birmingham, I was physically assaulted, called a f***ing c*** and a prick, and left stranded after the last train back to London had gone... more

Fuel-price strategy is paying off for Arriva

26.06.08

Arriva, in line with all its rival UK passenger transport companies, reports soaring revenues as Britons get out of their cars and on to buses and trains... more

Good weekend to stay at home

22.05.08

Bank Holiday travellers face severe disruption caused by rail and Tube engineering works, an estimated 18 million motorists on the road and blockaded Channel ferries... more