Mobility News

Thursday 6th August 2026

New stumbling block for East West Rail over staffing

A proposal for for trains on East West Rail to be staffed by a driver and a customer service inspector have failed to break the deadlock between the Department for Transport and the RMT, which has been opposing plans to use driver-only trains between Oxford and Milton Keynes Central.

Rail News

Touring Shropshire – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly…

I love Shropshire. It’s the largest inland County in England and features such delights as Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Market Drayton, to name but three. It is also a decent study in how market towns and rural communities are served by public transport, when a lot of green fields mean a lot of subsidised buses. The […]

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