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Rescue teams from the RNLI and HM Coastguard launched an urgent search after a person was reported in the water during Storm Jocelyn which has hit the UK with 71mph winds

The West Lancashire town of Skelmersdal had its rail service cut when town planners tore up the rails in 1956 - locals have been waiting for a train ever since

Some major rail operators are late more than half of the time, according to new data on passenger rail performance, while others see high numbers of cancelled trains

Websites such as Trainline promote split fares, which cut travel costs by using more than one ticket for a journey, while most machines do not

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

Mystery shoppers discovered that fares purchased online were cheaper around three-quarters of the time, and on average, same day journeys cost a hefty 52% from machines at stations than online

The Margate-based company saw shares move higher in early trading as a result

Despite being the same size as Bulgaria or Hungary, Iceland seemingly has no need for any train stations or railway lines to ferry the 300,000 people who live there around

LNER is scrapping Off-Peak and Super-Off-Peak fares on journeys from London King’s Cross to Newcastle, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Edinburgh and vice-versa, replacing them with a new semi-flexible fare called the 70min Flex

A yellow warning is in place for snow and ice across Scotland, much of northern England and parts of north Wales until midnight on Tuesday, as well as for Northern Ireland until 11am

The abandoned tunnels buried beneath the Pennines between West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester were said to have hosted Satanic rituals and black magic in the 1980s

The project for Brent Cross West station cost more than £400million to complete in northwest London - and became the first new mainline station to open in the capital for ten years last month

The 28-year-old was caught hacking his colleagues emails, posting abuse online and tricking Subway customers into calling the Waterloo control room to make food orders

HS2 boss Sir Jon Thompson admitted that the line between London and Birmingham could now cost up to £66.6billion and said the budget for the project was set 'too early'

A decommissioned 118ft Air India aircraft was being transported from Mumbai to Assam when it became wedged under the archway on the national highway in Jalukbari

The beach town in Somerset is misunderstood by most of the country - but locals in the area are flocking there because of its affordable houses, beautiful beaches and well-connected transport links

Despite services being regularly haled by engineering works, Network Rail staff has taken almost £40million in bonus payments - including an average £35k payout for top bosses

A woman who died when she was hit by a car in Pangbourne, Berkshire, is believed to have lived in the £2.5million home with her adult children, according to neighbours

Jennifer Hicks was last seen partying in a bar to welcome in 2024. But two days later the 33-year-old was found dead near a train track, and authorities are trying to understand what happened

Storm Henk has brought winds of almost 100mph to the UK along with torrential rain causing two 'danger to life' flood warnings as more miserable weather batters Brits

Shildon is located a mere thirteen miles from Durham and close to Middlesborough, and it features green spaces and easy access to lots of urban areas

The Tories have been accused of failing to deliver on a manifesto commitment to reopen railway lines and train stations closed under the Beeching cuts in the 1960s

The UK and Ireland are set for a wet and windy end to 2023 with several weather warnings in place as travel chaos has left tens of thousands stranded and 'significant snow' could hit parts of the country

Rizwan Javed, who works on the Elizabeth Line in London, has 29 suicide intervention commendations and is among hundreds of unsung heroes celebrated in the New Year Honours List

Other milestone moments include the first flight of a commercial jet airliner in 1958, and the opening of the Channel Tunnel, in 1994