All news on the topic: Transport

The first platforms at London’s new £4.3 billion Old Oak Common have been completed in a rare piece of good news for the troubled HS2 project.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on every aircraft Canada sells into the United States began with a favor for a wealthy friend who was trying to buy a private jet and could not.

A rail track defect existed in the area where a train derailed in East Sussex last week, injuring 30 people, investigators say.

A car was blown up by the Metropolitan Police after it was left outside King’s Cross St Pancras station this afternoon.

An update has been issued on the impact of the Lewes train derailment, which severely injured two people.

North Bridge is finally set to fully reopen after eight years of work, with all four traffic lanes and both pavements free to use.

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

Why is it so expensive to build infrastructure in Britain? One common explanation is that essentially we lack practice. For example, Britain has electrified its railways in fits-and-bursts. In the late 80s, Britain electrified over 400 kilometres of track each year.

Residents and councillors in Islington, north London, have been left “gobsmacked” at the £130,000 cost of a new zebra crossing in the area.

Another Andy Burnham cost-of-living announcement was at risk of descending into chaos today.

Loganair has temporarily scrapped flights across Scotland’s islands due to operational losses triggered by rising fuel prices due to the war in the Middle East

Extra-tall ticket barriers will be installed at railway stations to guard against fare dodgers in a new crackdown that hopes to recoup the £400million-a-year loss to evaders.

Electric vehicle (EV) owners will be taxed for driving abroad under Labour’s pay-per-mile plan.

Leaves on the line, flooding on the tracks and rails are too hot – they’re all reasons we’re used to hearing for delays on the train.

Councillors have backed initial plans to connect some of Shetland’s islands with undersea tunnels, which could be in place within eight years.

The head of a major airline alliance that includes Lufthansa and United has likened Heathrow’s third runway plans to an unaffordable luxury car as he urged the airport to cut back some parts of the “eye-watering” project.

Almost £24.4bn of government money went to private equity-run firms in year to April 2025, Guardian analysis shows.

Kenya has signed a $1.2 billion agreement with a Chinese state-owned construction company to expand and modernize the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), a major infrastructure project aimed at strengthening the country’s position as East Africa’s leading aviation gateway.

A train driver who died in a crash near Bedford went through a red signal moments before the collision, rail crash investigators have revealed.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander approved the £2.2 billion scheme in September, which would have seen the West Sussex airport move its emergency runway 12 metres north to accommodate around 100,000 more flights a year.

A “major incident” has been declared after a bus crash left dozens of people injured.

The Met Office today issued a rare red ’danger to life’ extreme heat warning for ’significant disruption to daily life’ as the UK faces road, rail and air travel chaos.