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These are the busiest rail travel days you need to avoid this festive season

Passengers can enjoy an uncrowded trip on 24 and 31 December as well as New Year’s Day – as long as the line is open

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Controversial Liverpool Street station redevelopment decision delayed until next year

Further details added to redevelopment plans that include 19-storey tower over UK’s busiest station

Evening Standard

Sheriff’s apology as she says inquiry venue to be fixed as soon as possible

Sheriff Lesley Johnston said there is a ‘lot of work’ going on to determine the venue for the Stonehaven rail crash FAI.

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'They are blaming my son': Parents of boy hit by train at pedestrian crossing slam 'distracted by phone' report finding

Jaiden Shehata, 11, was struck by a train as he walked to school near Kenley, south London, on January 23

Evening Standard

Major south London train station to be transformed in bid to tackle overcrowding

Wandsworth Council has shortlisted three options to improve Clapham Junction station, one of the UK’s busiest

Evening Standard

Engineers move derailed Avanti West Coast train

The 11-carriage train came off the tracks on the West Coast Main Line near Shap, Cumbria, at about 6.15am on Monday.

Evening Standard

Train horror: Schoolboy killed on level crossing in south London was 'probably distracted by mobile phone video'

Investigation finds six ‘near misses’ had been documented at the same crossing in the previous five years

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Boy who died after being hit by train at crossing ‘was distracted by phone’

Jaiden Shehata was walking to school when the accident happened at about 8.03am on January 23.

Evening Standard

Investigation claims boy hit by train at crossing ‘was distracted by phone’

The site does not have warning lights or barriers

The Independent UK

Train customers warned not to travel north of Preston after derailment

The 4.28am Avanti West Coast service from Glasgow to Euston came off the tracks near the village of Shap, in Cumbria, on Monday morning.

Evening Standard

Four people hurt as train derails after hitting landslide at 80mph

Eighty-seven people, including 10 members of staff, were on board the 4.28am service from Glasgow to Euston when it came off the tracks in Cumbria.

Evening Standard

Warning of ‘days of disruption’ after high-speed train ‘hits landslide’ at 80mph and derails

Nearly 90 people were on board the 4.28am service from Glasgow to Euston

The Independent UK

Picturesque Welsh railway reopens after £1.4 million revamp

Storms have forced more than 500 days of closures on the line over the last 10 years

The Independent UK

Rail chaos across UK this weekend including London, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh routes

Exclusive: East Coast Main Line passengers face two-hour rail-replacement bus journey

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Swan sparks rush-hour disruption at Scotland’s busiest railway station

Network Rail said it had caught the ‘culprit’ forcing delays on Glasgow passengers.

The Independent UK

Swan sparks delays and cancellations at one of UK’s busiest train stations

Network Rail said it had caught the ‘culprit’ causing the disruption

Evening Standard

Drones and AI-powered CCTV: Inside the battle to stop trespassers causing chaos on London's railways

Revealed: how BTP and Network Rail are fighting back against a problem that causes more train cancellations and delays than signal failures

The Independent UK

London Underground signalling: How does it work and what can go wrong?

Exclusive: After a week of Northern line chaos, Simon Calder explains how the Tube’s communication systems work

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Rail line to reopen in Oxford as part of ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’ project

Two new stations are to be built in Oxford as part of the development

Evening Standard

Travel chaos on London trains after cable theft at railway junction

The incident is being investigated by British Transport Police and is expected to cause disruptions on Sunday

Evening Standard

First rail operator to be renationalised apologises for disruption

Passengers on South Western Railway have suffered delays and cancellations on some of the country’s busiest routes.

The Independent UK

RMT warns of pay dispute at Network Rail

Workers have suffered years of below-inflation wage rises, says the union.

The Independent UK

Railways get first national clock design in 51 years

The design has the railway’s double arrow motif integrated into the clock face.

Evening Standard

Inside Britain's biggest-ever trains refurb: £100m project to keep 300 London commuter trains on track for another 15 years

Southern’s entire Electrostar fleet now has phone-charging points and better wifi

The Independent UK

Cow stampede at train station causes delays across Wales

Passengers watched as the trespassing cows trotted away from the railway and onto the platform

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