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FirstGroup protests – and shareholders suffer

Rail commuters were hit by a number of rush-hour delays today, with services to three major airports affected.

Hundreds of Sri Lankans took to the streets today to demand that the government halts a plan to impeach the country's top judge and to condemn what they claim is the intimidation of the judiciary.

More than 170 passengers were left stuck inside a London Tube train for nearly an hour and around 100,000 more faced disruption as delays hit one of the capital’s most important Underground lines this morning.

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Anti-terror officers are investigating the theft of a cargo of munitions from a freight train.

Compensation measures for residents affected by the London-Birmingham HS2 high-speed rail project will go “significantly beyond statutory requirements”, the Government promised today.

Horses competing in dressage events at the Olympics plus teams of athletes from Uzbekistan, France and Sweden all travelled to London by Eurotunnel in the third quarter, seeing revenues on the under-the-sea train line rise 13 per cent to €275m (£225m).

The billionaire Reuben brothers have begun talks with US investor Cohen & Steers over the future of New York-listed leisure group Orient-Express.

The Olympics helped boost revenues of Channel Tunnel company Eurotunnel this summer.

It is being dubbed the Great Train Snobbery or simply – and perhaps predictably – ticketgate.

Will high speed rail benefit anyone other than fat-cats?

A woman has been grabbed off the street and raped as she walked home from a railway station, police said today.