

The Railway Magazine
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Britain's best rail title since 1897. Editor: Paul Bickerdyke




the Tyne and Wear Metro is so good and it's completely ridiculous that every big city in the UK doesn't have its own version













Rail ticket fraud. At last, a gaping loophole in the system will close, from Wednesday 1 April. Currently unscrupulous passengers buy an Anytime or Off-peak ticket, make the journey, and if the ticket isn't clipped or scanned they claim a refund, less £5. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

1/ Bedlington, the 6th and final station to form part of the £336.4m Northumberland Line project, reconnecting communities between Newcastle and Ashington to the rail network, officially opened today. But local politicans are adamant it won't be the last.






