UK train travel

Five years ago the firm was not even a competitor with National Express but now its services criss-cross Britain. It says its tech-savvy approach helps hugely

The start-up train company, which is partnering with Uber, is working with Siemens on new rolling stock

Petroc Trelawny, the presenter of a special programme about railways, admits he is more likely to ‘seethe internally’ than ask someone to turn down their speaker

Bringing railway operators under public ownership has not improved punctuality, but it has increased the number of timetabled trains

It’s been 200 years since the first railway journey and Simon Armitage has written a poem for the occasion. He is the latest in a long line of artists inspired by the locomotive

Record summer of overheating complaints prompts operator to respond to effects of climate change

Only 73 per cent of the luxurious, state-owned overnight trains arrived on schedule from April to June

Passengers in the Midlands and northern England will be able to ditch paper and mobile tickets by downloading an app with GPS technology

Home working means there are fewer passengers travelling with the train operator, which was brought under state control in 2022

Plans to upgrade to fibre-optic cable were shunted into the sidings, but if Whitehall committed to connectivity, the public finances would reap the benefits