Reid: known as Bob Reid II after succeeding another Sir Robert Reid (no relation) as British Rail chairman - Tony Prime Sir Bob Reid, who has died aged 91, chaired British Rail from 1990 to 1995 after ...

After 30 years of privatisation Britain’s railways are in a disastrous state. When British Rail was privatised by the Conservative government in 1993, after decades of deliberate underfunding, they ...

Transpennine Express joins LNER, Northern and Southeastern rail under the DfT’s control. Credit: AlanMorris/Shutterstock Ownership of the British railway system has been hotly contested since it was ...

As well as Greater Anglia, the Department for Transport Operator (DfTO) now runs TransPennine Express, LNER, Northern, ...

Britain extended state support to keep its rail network moving during the pandemic, providing private train companies with less lucrative temporary contracts ahead of a shake-up of the way the system ...

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“Britain’s railways are broken.” So says – or said – the transport secretary, Louise Haigh. Her social media assessment of the dire state of the rail industry, made six weeks ahead of the general ...

The UK’s rail minister has ordered train companies to urgently hire more train drivers, saying he is “concerned” by a looming shortage. Rail minister Peter Hendy said train operators needed to step up ...

Chris Grayling has insisted he does not want to privatise Network Rail - despite bringing private companies into the running of a new rail line. Speaking about plans to re-open the Oxford-Cambridge ...

ATHENS, April 26 (Reuters) - Greece is considering breaking up its railway and selling the right to operate some routes to different companies, in an attempt to maximise proceeds from the ...

Last month’s announcement that the government will scrap phase two of the HS2 rail project, set to run from the West Midlands to Manchester, felt like another nail in the coffin for Britain’s ...