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RAIL reports on the huge reduction in passenger numbers,
operators suspending services, and engineering projects
being placed on hold as Government-introduced lockdown
takes hold of the rail industry during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• EXCLUSIVE: Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris deliver a heartfelt thank you to the rail industry

• Ticket sales down 98%

• Franchising placed on hold for six months

• Emergency timetables introduced

• Tube overcrowding criticised

• Jobs safe, but Hull Trains stops running services

• Freight identified as key for UK during virus outbreak

• Bombardier and CAF suspend assembly at UK factories; Hitachi to carry on for now

• Labour launches alternative rail White Paper

• Direct Awards for Great Western Railway and Southeastern

• Varamis Rail plans long-distance electric freight trains

• Shocking trespass picture revealed by Network Rail

• Bi-mode the future for rail freight, says Government report

• Government report hints at electrification being back on the cards

• SWR pay rise offer

• End of locomotive-hauled trains in Anglia

• How the railway coped with past pandemics

• Behind-the-scenes at the Werrington dive-under project

• We visit HS2’s Curzon Street site - home to the world’s oldest roundhouse