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Transport secretary Grant Shapps announced £794m investment package over the weekend in two rail routes that closed 50 years ago, but campaigners have criticised the plans for relying on diesel engines

Rail electrification would bring many benefits and doesn't have to be expensive, argues Lib Dem transport spokesperson Baroness Randerson

Further investments have been announced in the Tyne and Wear Metro and Middlesborough train station, while the government's Bus Open Data Service also went live yesterday

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Tie-up will see first battery-powered trains hit the UK in a boost to government efforts to deliver greener rail travel

BREAKING: Following outcry over yesterday's announcement that Britain would leave EU-wide rail pass scheme, Britain's rail industry changes course

From January 2020 Interrail and Eurail ticket holders wil not be able to use their passes on UK rail network, sparking concern move could encourage more people onto planes

Move comes amid reports engineering firms have secured a deal that could see low emission hydrogen trains on UK tracks within two years

Alstom launched the world's first hydrogen powered passenger train in Germany last month, and it has a plan to bring green trains to the UK