3 h. ago Watch: Delivery rider throws water to trapped train passengers

Watch: Delivery rider throws water to trapped train passengers  BBC

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10 h. ago Just Eat delivery man branded 'hero' after 'rescuing' stranded train passengers

Train passengers hoping to spend the day at the beach got stuck on a bridge and were left sweltering in yesterday's heat – but fortunately, respite came in an unlikely form.

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26 h. ago Evacuated London train passengers forced to walk along tracks on hottest day of year

Evacuated London train passengers forced to walk along tracks on hottest day of year  The Guardian

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27 h. ago Just Eat driver tosses water to evacuated London train passengers ‘slowly cooking’ in heatwave

Just Eat driver tosses water to evacuated London train passengers ‘slowly cooking’ in heatwave  Metro.co.uk

Society

28 h. ago Thameslink passengers evacuated after being 'trapped on train with no air con' in scorching heat

Nearly 1,800 passengers had to be freed after a train became stuck at Loughborough Junction

Society

29 h. ago Major evacuation as 1,500 passengers ‘trapped on train for 2 hours with no air con’ in sweltering heat...

Major evacuation as 1,500 passengers ‘trapped on train for 2 hours with no air con’ in sweltering heat...  The Sun

Society

3 d. ago Moment passenger threatens to 'break train manager's face' as LNER releases shocking bodycam footage showing tirades of abuse

Dramatic video filmed on a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) service on the night of March 16 showed the man confronting the member of staff at the onboard café bar.

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3 d. ago Eurostar passengers see dozens of train services cancelled or delayed

‘Ventilation cut off, no communication, it’s getting hotter,’ one customer says

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4 d. ago The Platform Trap: Mallorca makes life miserable for the unsuspecting rail passenger

Train Talk: the island needs to encourage more holidaymakers to use the excellent metro system

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5 d. ago ‘The railway that got the world on track’: a walk through 200 years of history in County Durham

A new trail follows the 26-mile route of the world’s first passenger train journey on the Stockton and Darlington RailwayIt was as strange a sight as you could stumble upon in the English countryside. As a muggy summer’s day began outside Shildon, Durham – rain threatening, bees drowsy in the hedgerows – I found myself standing on an embankment, surveying two rows of colossal stone teeth jutting through the earth. It looked as if someone had buried a sleeping giant.“You wouldn’t believe it by looking at it, but this is one of railway history’s most amazing feats,” my companion, rail expert Richie Starrs, said as we gazed down at the molars beneath our feet. A closer look revealed they were abandoned rail sleepers, laid out between the hawthorns and along which coal wagons were once pulled uphill by steam traction locomotives. “This is the Brusselton Incline, a section of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway. Nationally, it’s a story that’s not well known, but it’s one we’re ...

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1 week ago Inside the new £400m UK train line that will never be used by normal passengers

The new £400million project, in the mountains of Neath Port Talbot, will have miles of railway tracks and station platforms - but it's not for everyday passengers

Economics

1 week ago Europe's 'longest' train journey between two beautiful countries is 1,075 miles

The Snälltåget train takes passengers on a scenic adventure, beginning in Malmö, Sweden and arriving at Innsbruck, Austria, a mere 22 hours and 1,720 km later

Politics

1 week ago Train passenger plea issued in search for man who vanished a month ago

Police believe William Shine may have travelled to Machynlleth on May 9

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1 week ago At least 5 killed as passengers fall off overcrowded train in India

Incident occurred when passengers hanging from open doorways of Pushpak Express collided with others doing the same on a train approaching from the opposite direction

Events

1 week ago Moment 'fare dodger' is warned he could be committing fraud after only paying for short part of his journey

The train passenger was stopped by a revenue protection officer at the barriers at London Waterloo station after arriving on a South Western Railway (SWR) service.

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2 w. ago The place in Scotland where 94 per cent of people travel by ScotRail

The train operator says even just talking about improvements boosts passenger numbers

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2 w. ago Disabled train passenger is forced to move so Coronation Street stars on way to Soap Awards could have their own private carriage

Passengers were denied access to their allocated seats by Avanti West Coast staff on Saturday so the TV stars could sit together and have a carriage to themselves.

Events

2 w. ago Police investigate hate crime after passenger called 'woman from Taliban' on Cardiff to Bristol train

The woman was travelling with her family on a service south Wales from Wales to London and asked another passenger not to sit on the table. What happened next left them shocked

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3 w. ago Russia says blasts led to deadly train crashes in regions bordering Ukraine

Investigators say ‘explosions’ caused two bridges to collapse, triggering derailments and at least seven deathsRussian investigators said they believed “explosions” had caused two bridges in the border regions of Kursk and Bryansk to collapse overnight, derailing trains, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens.In Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, a road bridge collapsed on to a railway line late on Saturday, derailing a passenger train heading to Moscow and killing at least seven people. A rail bridge in neighbouring Kursk also collapsed overnight, derailing a freight train and injuring the driver, officials said. Kursk also borders Ukraine. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Seven people killed and dozens injured after two bridges collapse just hours apart in Russia

In the most devastating incident, a bridge came crashing down onto railway tracks in the Bryansk region, directly in the path of a moving passenger train.

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