‘It’s being treated like the Crown Jewels!’ Rod Stewart ‘charters seven shipping containers to bring his giant model railway back to the UK from the US’ Rod started started building the 124ft-long, 23ft-wide railway – a miniature replica of a 1940s US city – after moving to Beverly Hills in the 1990s It took him … Read more
A disused railway line above Camden could be set for a radical transformation into a garden walkway in the style of New York’s famous High Line. This latest green project in London’s eco-drive is hoping to turn three-quarters of a mile of tracks turned into a ‘park in the sky’ that stretches across the trendy … Read more
A disused railway line above Camden is set to be transformed into a garden walkway in the style of New York’s famous High Line. This latest green project in London’s eco-drive will turn three-quarters of a mile of tracks turned into a ‘park in the sky’ that stretches across the trendy borough 26ft above the … Read more
As a boy, Simon George loved watching the trains rumble past at the busy railway junction in a hamlet near his home. He spent long days during his school holidays in the early 1980s, from the age of 12 to 15, sitting on embankments or perched on footbridges over the tracks at Heaton Lodge Junction, … Read more
Driver, 38, is charged with dumping his damaged Ford Mondeo in middle of a RAILWAY TRACK before running off without raising the alarm Car left abandoned on a railway line in Kent in the early hours of Sunday morning Emergency services rushed to the scene to remove the vehicle from the tracks Pictures from scene … Read more
South Western Railway has plunged festive travel plans into more disarray after cancelling trains into London amid staff shortages caused by Covid. The rail firm said it would only run services between the Tier 2 areas of Exeter and Basingstoke, but not to the capital, which is under the harshest of restrictions, up to and … Read more
Rail travellers are likely to flout the five-day bubble window over Christmas amid fears of overcrowding, analysis reveals. Rail travel over the festive period will peak at 11am on December 23, on the day that coronavirus rules are relaxed, but thousands plan to travel before or return home afterwards. Some of the UK’s biggest stations will … Read more
Figures revealed that Berney Arms station in Norfolk served only 42 passengers in the past year, between April 2019 and March 2020.
The Welsh Government will nationalise its railways after last ditch talks with its current operator failed, it has been announced today. Welsh political leaders had been in talks with KeolisAmey about a possible bailout due to a fall in passenger numbers in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the negations have now fallen through. … Read more
The Welsh Government is today poised to nationalise its railways after last ditch talks with its current operator failed, according to reports. Welsh political leaders had been in talks with KeolisAmey about a possible bailout due to a fall in passenger numbers in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the negations have now reportedly … Read more