The Latest Breaking News from Nigel Harris

Rail is on track for managed decline, with fare rises only part of the problem

The Man Who Pays His Way: Increasing unreliability and more expensive tickets will drive passengers away

The Independent UK · Dec 23, 2023

Allotment holders who have been on Bridgend site for decades face eviction

The group of allotmenteers from Bridgend hope to get confirmation of a new site before they have to leave their old one

Wales Online · Jul 7, 2023

NT coroner finds Finke Desert Race safety measures 'entirely inadequate' prior to 2021 spectator death

The inquest found Nigel Harris, 60, died from multiple blunt force injuries after being hit by a competing trophy truck in 2021.

ABC News · Jun 5, 2023

‘The railways aren’t fit for purpose’ – so what do ministers propose?

Train Talk: What the passenger wants is clear – now the government has to deliver

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023

HS2 will go to Euston after all, chancellor confirms

‘I don’t see any conceivable circumstances in which that would not end up at Euston,’ Jeremy Hunt says

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

Jeremy Hunt: No ‘conceivable circumstances’ in which HS2 stops short of Euston

The Chancellor made the comment amid reports plans for the high-speed railway could be downgraded again to save costs.

The Independent UK · Jan 27, 2023

Cancelling HS2 to Euston would be 'height of folly', rail group says amid fears for Birmingham-Manchester leg

Chancellor insist scheme will happen; one analyst says 'If you’re flying into Heathrow, you don’t want to go to Southend'

Birmingham Post · Jan 27, 2023

Wales fan in Tenerife ‘deflated’ by Iran defeat but determined to enjoy holiday

Nigel Harris, 60, said it would have cost him and his wife ‘seven or eight thousand pounds’ to go to Qatar.

The Independent UK · Nov 25, 2022

Staff shortage and heavy rain blight weekend train journeys

The National Rail Awards 2022, scheduled for 15 September, have been postponed due to strikes by Aslef and RMT

The Independent UK · Sep 2, 2022

Finke Desert Race committee members refuse to give evidence at coronial inquest into death of Nigel Harris

The Northern Territory Coroner has described the silence from Finke Desert Race committee members as "extraordinary" at a coronial inquest into the death of a spectator.

ABC News · Aug 25, 2022