Essential reading for today's rail enthusiast
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Alex Bestwick
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The estimated cost of building HS2 between London and Birmingham has soared to as much as £66.6 billion, MPs heard.
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Rail Express Editor Richard Clinnick talks us through what to expect in the new issue when it is released next week!
Infrastructure failure has disrupted services at the second busiest rail station in the UK for the third day in a row.
Hattons Model Railway has announced that it will cease trading, and launched a closing down sale.
Regulated rail fares in England will rise by nearly 5% in March, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.
Many passengers found their journeys disrupted on Thursday as Storm Pia battered parts of the UK, with gusts hitting 115mph.
All Cross-Channel rail services were suspended on Thursday due to an unexpected strike in France, disrupting tens of thousands of journeys.
Transport Secretary Mark Harper has set an “ambitious” target to grow rail freight by at least 75% by 2050.
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A system harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to deter deer away from railway lines.
HS2 scrapped, ticket office closures, rail strikes and Flying Scotsman’s centenary – it’s been quite the year. Join us as we take a look back over 2023’s biggest stories in the world of British railways.
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