BIZARRE: 4 | Mind Blowing Facts

How do we solve this train chaos that’s pushing so many passengers into cars?

As the new year kicks off with yet more strike chaos, Iain Griffin argues job loss is not the way to look at introducing long-overdue automation in the rail sector

Evening Standard · Jan 5, 2023

HS2 launches latest jobs drive for next cohort to work on high-speed rail project

Forty roles are up for grabs in fields such as engineering and procurement on the huge infrastructure project

Birmingham Post · Jan 4, 2023

Union accuses government of blocking talks as another week of rail strikes begins

‘The government’s going to continue to work really hard to try and help bring the two sides together to get this resolved,’ says transport secretary Mark Harper

The Independent UK · Jan 3, 2023

Sunak claims workers are ‘tired of being foot soldiers in Mick Lynch’s class war’

Rishi Sunak said rail workers wanted a deal but the RMT was making ‘unaffordable’ demands

Evening Standard · Dec 18, 2022

ScotRail disruption to continue as rail workers to strike weekend before Christmas

ScotRail is running only 12 services in the central belt, Fife, and the Borders after Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members at Network Rail walked out on Friday

Edinburgh Live · Dec 17, 2022

Alternative ways to get home from town tonight during train strikes

Rail timetables for Greater Manchester have been crippled

Manchester Evening News · Dec 17, 2022

Train disruptions continue as railway workers hold 48-hour weekend strike

Network Rail and 14 train operators will run on a limited services as a result of the industrial action

Manchester Evening News · Dec 17, 2022

Rail strike continues as passengers face latest wave of disruption

Trains will start later than usual on Saturday and will finish earlier, while some parts of the country have no services

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2022

Transport for Wales agrees pay deal with rail unions

The news comes as the rail unions continue to be embroiled in a dispute with other train operators

Birmingham Post · Dec 16, 2022

Fresh strike causes more misery for rail passengers as bitter dispute continues

Talks between the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT), train company employers and Rail Minister Huw Merriman on Thursday failed.

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022