The rules shake-up will boost £45bn plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail – a network of rail upgrades designed to provide faster connections across the whole of the North of England – sources believe, ...

Plans to extend high-speed rail across the north of England have been delayed further and will not now be announced by the prime minister at the Labour Party conference next week. The BBC understands ...

LEEDS, England — How do you mark the launch of a new, faster passenger rail service? For one British operator, the answer was to hold a “speed dating” event matching singles from the two endpoints of ...

Andy O’Donnell’s evening commute along the Preston to Manchester airport railway line from his office near Buckshaw Parkway, a station in Chorley, to home in Heald Green, a suburb of Stockport, should ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson’s U.K. government said it will take the troubled Northern Rail franchise back into state ownership ...

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps stated that the Northern rail franchise could collapse due to financial issues. Credit: Northern Northern Rail is in financial trouble and could collapse within months ...

In May this year, Northern installed 621 new ticket vending machines across its network, under a comprehensive modernisation scheme. Credit: Northern Rail. Northern Rail in the UK has reportedly shut ...

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