Rail services through Shropshire were disrupted after a man died when he was hit by a train.

Bus operator Arriva Midlands this afternoon announced it is withdrawing a number of services from this Sunday.

Sunday and weekday evening bus services have been axed or scaled down along 11 routes in Shropshire, transport bosses have confirmed.

Train companies running services in Shropshire could be fined in future if carriages are found to be overcrowded.

Arriva Trains Wales today confirmed it has no plans to run a direct rail service from Shropshire to London.

Arriva today announced plans to raise single bus fares in Shropshire – with 30p added to some journeys. Passengers in Shrewsbury, Telford, Bridgnorth and Oswestry will be hit.

A planned third weekend of rail strikes which would have caused major disruption for passengers in Shropshire and Mid Wales has been called off — as fears were raised of air traffic chaos across Europe this Easter.

The latest in a series of walk-outs involving Arriva train drivers will go ahead this weekend after talks broke down between the company and the workers’ union Aslef.

Arriva today said it was considering making a claim against Shropshire’s two main councils after being forced to fork out thousands of pounds fixing buses damaged by potholes.

Shropshire bus provider Arriva Midlands is to reduce the number of journeys made by some services in the county in a bid to cut costs, it was announced today.

Five bus routes in the Telford area are to be withdrawn and several others changed from this weekend in a massive shake-up of services announced by Arriva Midlands.

A bus service which drops off and picks up children from outside a Telford school is being withdrawn because it is not “commercially viable”, it was revealed today.

Bus prices in Shropshire are to rise by 20p for day saver tickets while the price of passes will also rise, Arriva Midlands said today.

Wrekin Tory candidate Mark Pritchard says he hopes the £1.59 billion takeover of bus and rail firm Arriva by German operator Deutsche Bahn will bring an end to overcrowding on a service running through Shropshire.

A train company which put in a bid to run a direct service from Shropshire to London has had its application turned down by rail regulators.

Bosses at Arriva Midlands have splashed out £2 million on a state-of-the-art fleet of buses serving passengers in Shropshire.

Shropshire bus provider Arriva Midlands has announced a reduced timetable over the Christmas and New Year period.

Letter: I have been travelling on the buses this year visiting my disabled wife Edna in the PRH, Telford.

Letter: I thought I would catch the bus this week to go to my voluntary job. The normal computer information boards are no longer working and I was advised to consult the new timetables.

Bus passengers across Shropshire are having their tickets sent to their mobile phones in a scheme said to be the biggest of its kind in the world.

Residents are celebrating after it was agreed that a Shropshire bus service which had been cancelled would be reinstated.

Letter: In September I telephoned the Arriva hotline to register my dissatisfaction with the revised bus services, only to be told it was nothing to do with them and advised to forward my views to an address in Luton.

A train service between Shropshire and Wales has been branded the “sardine express” by a county MP.

Bus firm Arriva today unveiled a raft of planned improvements to services across Shropshire – including new vehicles, extra pick-up times and extended routes.

Daniel Kawczynski has met Arriva Trains Wales managers to urge them to spruce up Shrewsbury’s station for the town. He met the firm’s commercial director Mike Bagshaw.

An investigation has been launched after passengers were trapped on a train near Wellington for more than four hours.

MP Owen Paterson has urged Arriva Trains Wales to look at improving its current services before expanding to provide a direct route from Mid Wales and Shropshire to London.