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No trains at Birmingham New Street at Christmas due to major upgrades

Railways stock

Gas leak shuts rail route between two major UK stations

Services at London Euston will be disrupted (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Travel warning issued for West Midlands passengers heading to London

Essex train derailment

Essex train derailed at 77mph and driver reported seeing ‘kink’ in track – probe

A quiet New Street station in Birmingham this morning following England's overnight game against Mexico.

West Mids train passengers issued warning ahead of Bank Holiday travel

Burned out fuel wagons on a damaged railway line

Network Rail sues companies for £5m over derailment which caused oil spill

West Midlands Fire service chief fire officer Simon Tuhill speaking to members of the media near to the scene following a huge blaze in Stourbridge (Jacob King/PA)

Fire chief says Stourbridge fire will stay with him for a long time

A train carriage which derailed on the approach to Lewes station in East Sussex being lifted as part of the recovery operation

Lewes rail line to reopen in September as work under way to remove train

Network Rail is carrying out repair work

Breaking Snow Hill rail services hit by major disruption after Stourbridge fire

The derailed train

Lewes railway closed ‘for at least another ten days’ after derailment

Essex train derailment

Probe into two train derailments to ‘look at all possible causes and factors’

Second day of rail disruption caused by power outage

Trains disruption

Rail disruption expected into morning after power outage grinds trains to halt

Trains disruption

Rail disruption expected into morning after power outage grinds trains to halt

Departure board showing delays at Liverpool South Parkway station as an electricity supply failure at a communications centre caused major disruption to trains in the Midlands and north-west England

Electrical failure causes rail disruption in Midlands and north-west England

West Midlands Railway services will be reduced to one per hour due to hot weather

Rail passengers told of delays due to reduced service in Staffordshire

South east water staff hand out bottled water at a water collection point near Herne Bay in Kent

Troubled South East Water names incoming chief executive
John Halsall will take over from outgoing boss David Hinton after regulatory approval and a handover period.
Holly Williams, Press Association Business Editor

Bedford South train crash

Tributes pour in for train driver killed in crash as experts work to reopen line

The scene just south of the Elstow interchange between the A421 and the A6 in Bedford South after two East Midlands Railway trains were involved in a collision

Driver killed in train crash near Bedford named as family pay tribute

Bedford South train crash

King ‘greatly saddened’ after train driver killed and dozens injured after crash

Damaged train on rail tracks with police officers and rail workers

Train driver killed and dozens injured as two trains collide near Bedford

Damaged train on rail tracks

One dead and dozens seriously injured as two trains collide near Bedford

The fallen tree

Rail line reopens between Wolverhampton and Birmingham after tree fall

Road closures planned for work on Shrewsbury railway bridges

Railway expected to reopen tomorrow after Oxley train derailment

Line reopening delayed after derailment between Wolves and Shrewsbury

Wolverhampton-Shrewsbury rail: Disruption update after train derails

A picture has been released by Network Rail of the derailed train that has caused rail disruption.

Picture released of derailed train as rail chaos continues
A picture has been released by Network Rail of the derailed train that has caused rail disruption.
Isabella Boneham

Network Rail has issued a statement after a train derailed in Wolverhampton.

Network Rail confirms when railway will reopen after train derailed

Shrewsbury train station

Shrewsbury rail passengers warned of disruption ahead of major works

Buses to replace trains on Heart of Wales line later this month

Buses to replace trains on Heart of Wales line later this month

West Midlands railway stations reopen for first time in eighty years

Major train disruption for services running between Birmingham and Liverpool due...

Severn Valley Railway hosts major exercise to test emergency response plans at s...

Six-day shutdown on major train line to disrupt thousands of Easter journeys

Plan for ‘step free’ access at a Shropshire railway station outlined

Disruption cleared on train line at Albrighton after Network Rail staff coax hor...

Plus Severn Valley Railway ploughs the way and clears snow from railway lines for Net...

Storm Goretti: Reduced rail and bus services planned ahead of snow

Pigeon poo control work under Shrewsbury railway bridge delayed until next year

Train passengers warned of delays after tree blocks line in Chirk

Funds may be available for tree planting in Llandrindod Wells, groups told

Plus Road closures planned in Shrewsbury town centre for railway bridge inspections

Annual level crossing testing to close north Shropshire road with 19-mile divers...

Direct Shropshire rail link with London could be back on track as plans for serv...

Network Rail's 'unsympathetic' LED advertising board plan for Shifnal town centr...

Month-long disruption set for Wellington train station as buildings get a little...

Pigeon poo mess to be cleared in Shrewsbury during bridge clean-up and bird-proo...

West Midland train operator is nationalised

Repairs complete on Severn Valley Railway's catastrophic landslip - in time for ...

Rail link could see Telford become 'hub for London capital' say Shropshire town ...

Rail line remains shut after Leominster train crash as bosses work to 'restore s...

Network Rail issues level crossing safety warning as over half of people in the ...

Residents oppose plan for 52 homes on scrap yard site in Telford

Trainspotting social media star Francis Bourgeois backs Severn Valley Railway's ...

Tragedy ‘must never be repeated’ say families of track workers struck by train

Network Rail fined £3.75m after deaths of two track workers

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