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'The dispute is not over but we have made sufficient progress to suspend the action next week' said Mick Lynch, general secretary of RMT

Basil Peterkin and Saliah Mehmet were jailed in 1977 for robbing the British Rail depot and protested their innocence to their graves, as the Court of Appeal today overturned their convictions

It's not just the privatised water companies taking us for fools, says Brian Reade, and people are desperate to be freed from these greedy companies that are happy to let us pay for their mistakes while they rake in the profits

Northern Rail says it has been playing composers such as Bach and Beethoven in railway stations and has already seen a dramatic fall in anti-social behaviour

This week in 1963, Dr Beeching wielded his axe that shut down more than half of Britain’s stations and closed 5,000 route miles of track - costing 67,000 workers their jobs

Wilston Samuel Jackson, originally from Kingston, Jamaica has been honoured with a blue plaque at King Cross Station in London after driving the Flying Scotsman and Mallard steam trains

Statues believed to be the first public artworks of black people in England have returned to Brixton rail station after they were initially unveiled 35 years ago