Closure

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RDG presses ahead with ticket office closure plan

After a year of unsuccessful negotiations with the RMT union, the Rail Delivery Group looks set to impose widespread ticket office closures in England.

11 Jul

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Bank branch closure for upgrade…

A large section of London Underground’s Northern Line Bank branch will be closed for 17 weeks from mid-January, Transport for London has confirmed.

15 Nov

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Weymouth-Bristol to shut for 16 days

A 16-day closure will be required for what Network Rail describes as “major surgery” for the Weymouth-Bristol line.

20 Oct

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Cancelled Trains at Cleethorpes

Trains serving Cleethorpes will be cancelled over the weekend of September 25-26 to enable vital footbridge work.

15 Sept

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Springburn Works to close next year

Introduction of new rolling stock given as reason for closure of historic Scottish works

18 Mar

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Springburn Works to close

180 jobs at risk as historic Scottish workshop set for closure

17 Dec

40169 heads a Monk Bretton-Middleton Towers empty sand train past Twenty Feet River during the last week of the line’s operation in November 1982. MARK BRAMMER.

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A lost line... and a lost opportunity

Thirty-five years after the March to Spalding line closed, freight operators are still lamenting its loss. PIP DUNN explains why the route was closed

27 Jan

An aerial view of the major landslip at Eden Brows, which looks set to keep the S&C severed well into 2017 while Network Rail carries out extensive repairs. NETWORK RAIL.

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Landslip could close section of S&C until late 2017

Concern that the Settle-Carlisle Line will remain partially shut into the latter half of 2017.

17 May

Some £288 million is being spent to modernise the Glasgow Subway, much of which was built in 1896, making it the world’s third oldest underground railway. STRATHCLYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSPORT.

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Glasgow Subway to shut for a month for tunnel work

Subway services in Glasgow are to be suspended for approximately four weeks from Saturday July 2, to enable modernisation work.

9 May

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Cheshire lines to close for bridge works

Network Rail' £17 million refurbishment of four bridges and two viaducts in Cheshire, requires 11-day closure of Crewe-Manchester and Sandbach-Northwich lines.

1 Jan