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Speaking to reporters on Thursday afternoon, the RMT union’s general secretary said scheduled rail strikes would go ahead after what he said was a ‘positive meeting’ with the transport secretary, Mark Harper. ‘If we called off the strikes, we’d never get a settlement,’ said Lynch, adding: ‘We did that two …

Last week Lonely Planet’s annual Best in Travel list included the Istanbul-Sofia Express as an essential journey for 2023. The overnight service restarted in April this year, after being suspended in early 2020. When introduced in 2017, it was a successor of older night-train services, including several incarnations using variants …

Members of a union that primarily represents freight rail conductors have narrowly voted down a tentative labor contract, their union said Monday. If the two sides cannot reach another tentative agreement by early December, the rail workers could strike — an outcome that industry officials have estimated could cost the …

By the time you reach Aarhus on the train from the south, there is a sense of having penetrated deep into Jylland, the long Danish peninsula whose name is often rendered as “Jutland” on English and German maps. At Fredericia, a one-time garrison town on the east coast, the overhead …

Lagos State Government began test-running the Blue Rail Line today, October 14.   The Blue Rail Line is a 27-kilometre rail line that traverses from Okokomaiko to Marina.    The project started in 2012 and test run has now begun.   Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had said in August that the trains will be …

The man on the slow train through the Swiss Jura is keen to connect. When I mention that I have just travelled from Scotland, he leans forward and confides: “I can understand how they feel up there. We had to fight for our independence from Bern.” The Jura region’s vote …

The Lagos State Government has taken delivery of new trains from Milwaukee, United States, for its Redline rail project, a 37-kilometre intracity railway system.   The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed this on Tuesday, September 27.   Omotosho said the delivery was in line with …

There appears to be a real union movement around the nation with teachers unions, nursing unions, and now the railroad unions exercising their labor muscles with picket lines forming from coast to coast. So far, the railroad is still chug-chug-chugging along, but for how much longer? The White House is …

Avignon is a natural way station for travellers from Britain and northern Europe bound for the Iberian peninsula. It’s a place for choices. Fast or slow? Travellers in a rush to reach Spain head for the Gare TGV, which opened in 2001. It is a good way south of the …

The monumental facade of Helsinki’s main railway station has an elegant symmetry. Four giant, granite men, each one holding a lantern, are there to greet me. It is before seven on a quiet Saturday morning and I am here on an eastbound mission, heading for the only passenger railway in …