Senior executives at Network Rail are at loggerheads with the organisation's chairman, despite an internal investigation that has cleared the chief executive, Iain Coucher, of allegations that he abused his position at the expense of taxpayers.

Britain is set to be taken to the cleaners by a plague of companies raking in money as a direct result of government cuts, economists have warned.

There is a great responsibility on the ITF and its affiliated unions to defend transport workers in difficult times, using our collective resources as effectively as possible, delegates were told in the Strong Unions – Sustainable Transport debate at Congress.

Passenger numbers on the Severn Beach railway line jumped by almost 17 per cent last year.

A runaway train went through six stops on a 13-minute journey on London's Tube with other trains having to be cleared out of its path.

Rail passengers face the biggest rise in ticket prices since the industry was privatised in the mid 1990s after the Government refused to rule out higher-than-usual fare increases.

BCC tells Transport Secretary to avoid "hasty and ill-conceived cuts" or risk putting economic growth at risk.

Union leaders have raised the threat of industrial action in the railway industry unless urgent assurances are given on safety in the wake of the inquest into the Potters Bar train crash.

Trains in and out of Reading station were badly affected on Friday Rail authorities say they will be stepping up their efforts to stop thefts after thousands of passengers were delayed on Friday.

Bristol City Council is inviting bus companies to bid to run every single journey it helps pay for – in a move that could end First's dominance.

BRISTOL City Council should know whether it can swap bendy buses for a light tram system by the autumn.

Rick Haythornthwaite, the Network Rail chairman, has vowed to investigate claims that the company's outgoing chief executive Iain Coucher enjoyed "lavish pay and perks" at the taxpayer's expense.

If you need evidence that, as this newspaper has been claiming since the election, the Con-Dem coalition is conducting an overt class-war offensive against working people, you don't have to look much further than its emerging social housing policies.

Unions will be urged to organise national days of protest and co-ordinated industrial action against the Government's public spending cuts during the TUC's annual conference next month.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has agreed to join Morgan Stanley and private equity group 3i in a bid for the high-speed railway linking London with the Channel Tunnel, Abu Dhabi's National newspaper said.