July 24, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — A wire service reports that shareholders in Railtrack Group PLC, operator of Britain’s railroads, voted Tuesday to sell the financially distressed business to a not-for-profit company for 500 million pounds ($780 million). Stockholders are...
July 23, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — According to a wire service, a resurgent British labor-union movement, egged on by a new generation of radical leaders, is threatening a summer of strikes in what would be the biggest show of worker militancy in Britain in two decades. Prime Minister...
July 22, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — A wire service reports that Railtrack, the collapsed rail infrastructure company, will pay train operator Virgin 100 million pounds ($157 million) in compensation for failing to upgrade one of Britain’s busiest lines, officials said Monday. Virgin...
July 19, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — According to a wire service, a series of strikes and a swing leftward by several major unions have widened a rift between Britain’s working class and Prime Minister Tony Blair’s governing Labor Party. For decades, Labor was the party of the...
July 19, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — Police said Thursday they caught three boys, all under the age of 10, building a barricade on a high speed railway line between two major cities, reports a wire service. The boys, aged 6, 7 and 9, piled tires, tree trunks, traffic cones, concrete tiles...
July 18, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — Walking, riding bicycles and standing in overcrowded double-decker buses, hundreds of thousands of London commuters struggled to reach work Thursday during a 24-hour strike that closed most of the capital’s subway system, according to a wire...
July 18, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — According to a wire service, train drivers at a regional rail operator in northern England will hold three 48-hour strikes this summer in a dispute over pay, a union announced Wednesday. The walkouts by the drivers’ union Aslef on the First North...
July 2, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — After several fatal crashes in recent years, the government on Tuesday announced plans for an independent body to investigate rail accidents, according to a wire service. Until now, train disasters have been investigated by the railway inspectorate of...
June 28, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — The Wall Street Journal Online reports that Railtrack Group PLC said Thursday it agreed to a takeover of its rail network ( news – external web site) by state-backed nonprofit firm Network Rail. Railtrack, which was placed into administration last...
June 27, 2002 | Headlines, UK Railways
LONDON — Shareholders in the collapsed rail infrastructure firm Railtrack PLC will receive payment for their stocks as part of a buyout deal announced Thursday by Railtrack’s parent company, according to a wire service report. Railtrack Group said...
