On June 18, Anasse Kazib, a French railway worker, trade unionist and socialist leader will stand trial for the charge of “apologia for terrorism.” His supposed crime? Tweets posted to the social media platform X in support of the Palestinian people in rejection of Israel’s campaign of genocide. France concedes that Kazib has no ties...
Maria Cassidy & David Deans BBC News Getty Images The new line is set to cost £6.6bn but no tracks will be laid in Wales There is anger that a multi-billion pound project to build a railway line between Oxford and Cambridge has been classed as an England and Wales project. The £6.6bn line will...
Rail users in the South West say they will be watching “with interest” to see what changes could be delivered after South Western Railway was renationalised. SWR was brought into public ownership on Sunday and the Department of Transport is now responsible for it until the Great British Railways is created later in the year....
Sean Dilley & Molly Stazicker Transport correspondent & transport producer PA Heidi Alexander making a speech this week in front of a train carriage with the new GBR logo South Western Railway (SWR) has been renationalised, making it the first train company to transfer to public ownership under Labour. The first nationalised service, from Woking...
Gov. Newsom of California is determined to see the high-speed rail system completed or at least started, but the bad news just keeps rolling in like a freight train (pun intended). Newsom is in the process of pushing for next fiscal year’s budget and as part of that process he has announced a plan to...
California Governor Gavin Newsom kicked off this year by symbolically putting the first spikes into California’s long-delayed high speed rail line. Like everything else about this project, the event was a bit misleading. The track being laid in January was not track for an actual high speed train but a siding that would eventually allow...
The rail minister has admitted using his mobile phone while driving a vintage double-decker bus through London at rush hour. Lord Peter Hendy was behind the wheel of the old Routemaster for a charity event when he was spotted texting a friend, as first reported by the Sunday Times. A spokesperson for Lord Hendy said:...