Reopening the Leamside Line has been removed from the initial list of projects for Rishi Sunak’s Network North programme just 24 hours after the announcement.
Paying off contracts previously awarded for cancelled HS2 sections will cost hundreds of millions of pounds, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has indicated.
A County Durham railway station has been found to be older than first thought and is now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station, new research has discovered.
A rail passenger has described his “insane” 11-hour journey from Preston in Lancashire to Edinburgh which ended at 3.30am after a “ridiculous” taxi ride.
It would be “irresponsible” to keep putting money into the HS2 project in the face of rising costs, a Cabinet minister has said as Rishi Sunak reportedly considered scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the route.
