Only weeks into the project of moving the Pennines thirty miles east, it has been decided to move them back again. However, due to the nature of the move, the Pennines will have to be completely moved thirty miles east before moving them thirty miles...
The Pennines, a range of hills that run down the back bone of England, are to be moved thirty miles east to make room for a high speed rail link between Leeds and London.
"High speed rail links need flat land," said engineer, Ray L Weigh. "The Pen...
The brand spanking new high speed rail link that will allow people in Manchester get to London in under an hour, even if they have to stop in Birmingham, has hit yet another snag.
Before a train even rolls along the rails, there are no trains.
The proposed high speed rail link between London and Manchester, with the shortest possible stay in Birmingham as is technically feasible, has been given the green light to be built, despite opposition.
However, protesters against the new rail lin...
The UK Government has today announced that a planned high speed train line between London and Birmingham will get the go ahead and will progress to the next stage in the planning process - the legal challenges.
PM David Cameron said, "I can proudl...
Some years down the line, a decision this week has been taken to nip two problems in the bud and solve the crisis of overcrowded roads in the UK and get the entire benefit system shut down simultaneously.
The current Minister of Transport announc...
The Government has announced today that following an increase in suicides across Britain's railways, train operators must now apologise to its passengers for the inconvenience it causes.
Under the new Acts Of God Act, MPs have decreed that because...
In this age of political correctness and lack of patience for one's fellow man, things seem to have dipped to a new low.
Barry Ludlow, 37, a high ranking executive in a city firm, was unceremoniously removed from a train on his way to work last Mo...
A local railway station has won a top award in a prestigious national competition.
Travellers love Upper Appleby-cum-Lower-Diggshollow station so much they voted overwhelmingly to make it Best Local Station in the Our Railway Stations Are Really N...
The Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire has voted 10 to 2 in favour of moving Huddersfield closer to London. The vote comes after a long public consultation that was largely supportive of the proposal, although some residents of the t...
Rail travellers in the U.K. are steeling themselves for disruption with the news that Arriva Trains will be striking in Wales and parts of England next week.
Although workers have been offered a 12% increase over the next 2 years, union sources cl...
Throckmortons was packed. There was a sale of hats on. I fought my way through the crowd, determined to avoid being taken for a fool, and to stick to my mission - the purchase of two storage jars for fruit-bottling purposes.
An hour later, alighting from the hansom at 221B Candlestick Maker Street with the new storage jars, a top hat, a sou'wester and a bowler, I was accosted by a thoroughly d...
A remarkable tale of survival against all the odds has emerged, amidst the absolute chaos that the UK's transport network has descended into.
A local man, Arthur Crapper, has been found sitting in the waiting room of the snowbound railway station,...
RMT union leader Bob Crow has caused raw anger by declaring his intention to ballot members for strike action on the London Underground for 29th April 2011, the date of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton.
A statement relea...
Following news yesterday that Network Rail and Jarvis Rail are being prosecuted over their roles at Potters Bar in 2002. The Government has been hastily preparing for the worst as it emerges that Network Rail could be subject to "Unlimited Fines" if...
Opinion: THE mainstream media today chose to focus on the massive threat the UK faced from Cyber-terrorists, instead of an impressive cornerstone of government policy that will slash the threat from real world terrorism and strengthen government coff...
British Rail workers have been working to rule in support of their latest 57% pay claim.
Workers have been arriving at work on time, not taking 'sickies' and driving trains at the correct speed whilst observing signals.
BR managers say that for...
National Railway Museum: The British Rail Union has today announced that it has been secretly balloting members for its first anti-strike.
An overwhemling majority of 98% of members have voted for the action which involves all railway staff member...