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Rail industry

January 2025

  • Avanti West Coast trains at Euston station

    Rail passengers face disruption from Avanti strikes every Sunday until June

    Train managers on west coast mainline to take action from 12 January to 25 May in dispute over rest-day working
  • Mick Lynch

    RMT union boss Mick Lynch announces retirement

    Firebrand leader says he is proud union stood up to ‘wholesale attacks’ on rail industry by Conservative party

    • Consumer champions
      My disabled mother paid £500 to travel near an Avanti accessible toilet … and it was closed

    • What are my rights if wintry UK weather has disrupted my travel?

    • Regulator forces HS1 rail line to cut charges in push to open up route to Eurostar rivals

December 2024

  • John Smith stands next to a circular sign with two long arrows pointing north and south, with a GB Railfreight logo and a Sunderland football club badge in the centre

    Observer business profile
    Green light: the boss of GB Railfreight with an eye on the environment

  • An Avanti West Coast train at Euston station in London in 2022

    Rail passengers face disruption as Avanti train managers strike

  • The six stand in front of Taunton railway station

    From dream to reality: Go-op, Britain’s first cooperative railway

  • Railway tracks with lots of red lights showing

    Train passengers in Britain still facing record number of cancellations

  • Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours. We try out the new service

  • Just 2% of some key trains on London to Manchester line run on time

  • Britain braces for big Christmas getaway amid weather and travel warnings

  • HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work

  • Cost of HS2 could pass £80bn as estimated bill jumps 15% in a year

  • Northumberland line reopens, carrying its first rail passengers since 1964

  • Christmas rail travel could be disrupted by crew shortages and engineering works

  • Eurostar the worst-performing rail service in Europe, campaigners find

  • Hitachi’s £500m train deal secures hundreds of jobs at UK factory

  • Rail renationalisation should reduce delays but may not cut fares, says UK minister

  • South Western Railway to become first train operator nationalised under Labour

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