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At least three dead as two passenger trains collide in Egypt’s Nile delta

Two passenger trains have collided in Egypt’s Nile delta, killing at least three people, two of them children, authorities have said.The crash happened on Saturday in the city of...
Children

Scottish opposition pushes Swinney on free school meal and flat-rate rail fare cuts

Opposition parties in Scotland have urged John Swinney to reverse unpopular cuts to free school meals and flat-rate...
Australia news

Sydney trains delays: services cancelled across network after urgent repairs to broken rail at Central station

Urgent repairs were causing extensive delays and cancelled services across the Sydney train network on Monday morning, which...
Heritage

It’s a scandal that the Great Central Railway was ever shut | Letters

I congratulate all the people, most of them volunteers, who’ve worked so hard to restore parts of the...
Books

Harry Potter fans boo as King’s Cross ends back to Hogwarts tradition

Disappointed Harry Potter fans booed after an annual announcement at London King’s Cross railway station did not happen.People...

LNER train driver strikes called off after successful union talks

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A series of weekend strikes by train drivers on LNER from Saturday has been called off, their trade union Aslef has announced. Passengers travelling between...

Ex-Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson forced to ‘crawl off’ train

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Tanni Grey-Thompson, the former Paralympic athlete, has spoken of her anger after being forced to drag herself off a London North Eastern Railway (LNER)...

The Guardian view on the future of public transport: time to invest and think big | Editorial

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Following the general election, the National Audit Office (NAO) released a report that offered a tragicomic epitaph to successive Conservative governments’ spectacular mismanagement of...

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