Website where neighbours rail against everything from badly parked cars to mysterious smells

Sylvia is rather concerned about a suspicious character she has seen lurking in our neighbourhood. ‘He is wearing a high-vis jacket and carrying one of those litter pickers,’ she reports. ‘I approached him and he told me to mind my own business. Something’s just not right.’ Unless there’s a new type of conscientious criminal who … Read more

Rail passengers will be hit by above-inflation price rises tomorrow

Commuters and frequent travellers in England and Wales will be hit by above inflation fare rises from Monday.     Rail passengers in England will see ticket prices increase by around 2.6 per cent while those in Wales will face a similar increase. Meanwhile in Scotland, the Government is implementing smaller rises of 1.6 per cent and … Read more

Flexible rail season tickets that can be used for just two or three journeys per week

Flexible season tickets will be offered to commuters by June as part of Government plans to get workers rushing back to their desks. The tickets can be used for two or three days per week to fit with a phased return to full time office working – and are set to save save commuters several hundreds … Read more

Network Rail boss says he’ll scrap summer maintenance works if leisure trips soar

Network Rail boss vows to scrap weekend engineering works this summer if leisure trips soar after Covid lockdown Weekend rail closures could be scrapped if leisure travel surges after lockdown  Network Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy predicts weekend demand could surge  To avoid disruption maintenance and upgrade work could move to weekdays  By Milly Vincent For … Read more

Network Rail boss vows to scrap weekend engineering works this summer if leisure trips soar

Network Rail boss vows to scrap weekend engineering works this summer if leisure trips soar after Covid lockdown Weekend rail closures could be scrapped if leisure travel surges after lockdown  Network Rail chairman Sir Peter Hendy predicts weekend demand could surge  To avoid disruption maintenance and upgrade work could move to weekdays  By Milly Vincent For … Read more

And the next stop is… in 200ft! Man recreates rail junction into Britain’s biggest model railway

As a boy, Simon George loved watching the trains rumble past at the busy railway junction in a hamlet near his home. He spent long days during his school holidays in the early 1980s, from the age of 12 to 15, sitting on embankments or perched on footbridges over the tracks at Heaton Lodge Junction, … Read more

Dog owner slams Network Rail after Jack Russell was hit by train and left on tracks for three nights

A dog owner has slammed Network Rail after he dog was left lying on tracks for three nights after being hit by a train.  Georgina Hart was walking her 10-year-old pooch Toto on Tuesday when the dog ran off from Exwick playing fields, near Exeter. When she failed to return, Georgina decided to go home … Read more

Swampy speaks from inside tunnel on THIRD day of HS2 rail link protest

Swampy, the leader of Euston Five tunnellers holed up below London protesting HS2, admitted today ‘I never thought I’d do this again’. The veteran activist, 48, is among the gang currently hiding in the ground campaigning against the £98billion high-speed railway. He has been underground with Dr Larch Maxey, 48, and Scott ‘Scotty’ Breen, 47, … Read more

Two rail lines shut in 1960s will reopen as transport officials pledge £800million

Two rail lines shut in 1960s will reopen as transport officials put £800million towards Bicester-Bletchley and Newcastle-Ashington projects Department for Transport said £760m will support next phase of East West Rail Reinstates services between Bicester, Oxfordshire and Bletchley shut in 1968 £34m boost is also going to old line between Newcastle and Ashington  By Daily Mail … Read more

Half of all rail services may be cut due to ‘ghost trains’

Half of all rail services may be cut due to ‘ghost trains’: Routes could be slashed again amid predicted slump in passengers during third lockdown An emergency timetable would be introduced in a bid to cut service levels   Aim is to reduce number of so-called ‘ghost trains’ which carry no passengers  Expected number of services … Read more