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MPs have quizzed Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander after national media reports of a rail nationalisation blunder that is claimed to have cost taxpayers £250 million.

Network Rail’s stockpile of rails will last a year despite any possible disruption in the supply from British Steel’s Scunthorpe Works.

South Western Railway is to use guards to close train doors at stations on its long-delayed fleet of Class 701 Arterio trains.

Government departments are widely expected to face budget cuts from June.

The tensions between local and central decision-making for rail.

Transport Select Committee publishes accessibility report and asks DfT for clarification on rail reform consultation.

Before last July’s General Election, we devised a seven-point manifesto for Britain’s railways. Richard Wilcock considers the progress on devolution.

The English Devolution White Paper and the government’s rail reform consultation are together proposing a major shift of power from central to local government.

Trio of operators decline to take part in government drive to hold firms to account.

Rail need a set of strategies that will allow an optimised deployment of rolling stock across the network for years to come, says Ian Prosser