The Latest Breaking News from British Rail

It was visited by thousands of commuters in its time

The Conservatives are on a TransPennine Express to nowhere, says the author and podcaster Christian Wolmar

Many return tickets cost just £1 more than singles – the result of an experiment conducted by British Rail decades ago

Driver-only operation and ticket office closures have been parked in the sidings

Lord Young of Graffham, a successful businessman who became a cabinet minister and was known as a favourite of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 90

Mark Harper says he intends to make a decision about the organisation’s future ‘at pace’

Conservationists hope spirit of late poet laureate’s 1970s protest will protect the Victorian station from ‘serious harm’

The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 and 1997 leading to 763 deaths. These figures were the highest compared with three other European countries.

Kieran says he's been threatened with various acts of violence on the job