Railway services in part of Devon have been cancelled after a landslip forced a train line’s closure. National Rail said the incident had been reported between Crediton and Okehampton on the Dartmoor Line at about 01:40 BST. It said Great Western Railway train services running between Exeter St Davids and Okehampton had been suspended, with...
A Devon town will get a new railway station after a “significant victory” in winning funding. A campaign to build a new station on the main line at Cullompton has been going on for years and campaigners say it is key to unlocking the building of 5,000 homes nearby in the Culm Garden Village development....
Jane Douglas Senior Journalist BBC Campaigners outside Tavistock Town Hall, showing support for the reinstatement of the Tavistock to Plymouth rail link Rail campaigners are battling for £1.5m government cash in the upcoming Spending Review to make a business case for a railway link in Devon. TavyRail campaign group would like to see a five-mile...
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...
Several people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, police have said. The city’s fire department said 12 people were injured in the attack, but police later said there were no reliable figures for the number of victims. Hamburg Police said officers arrested...
Train services in Devon were temporarily suspended after a vehicle crashed into a railway bridge. It happened in Paignton at about 12:00 BST, a spokesperson for Great Western Railway (GWR) said. The line was blocked, leading to delays and some cancellations to services between Newton Abbot and Paignton, it said. GWR confirmed train services had...
A man shot dead by police officers at Milton Keynes railway station has been named. David Joyce, 38, was from the city and was killed on Tuesday after police responded to reports of a man with a gun at the station. It later emerged he was carrying a knife. Thames Valley Police said a single...
Andy Trigg BBC News, Buckinghamshire James Grant/BBC Officers said they did not believe there was further risk to the public “at this time” Police have shot a man dead outside a railway station after reports he was carrying a firearm. Thames Valley Police (TVP) said it was called with British Transport Police to Milton Keynes...
Live Review Stick In The WheelThe Railway, Winchester27 March 2025 ‘The Only Folk Band That Matter’ said Ged Babey reviewing Stick In The Wheel’s A Thousand Pokes album, parodying the famous Clash epithet, clickbait style. This annoyed some people. After seeing them live he stands by the statement but adds ‘…To Me’. You see, your trials...
Hattie McCann visits the site of a new railway station on the edge of Okehampton. Source link...
