Passengers travelling on the Medway Valley line are being advised to plan ahead as essential maintenance work triggers a reduced service during the final week of 2025. From Monday, 29…
A targeted policing operation over one of the year’s busiest shopping weekends led to multiple arrests, drug seizures, and the enforcement of a dispersal zone in Sittingbourne town centre. Increased…
Getlink, the operator of the Channel Tunnel, has officially frozen all future UK rail investments, citing a “tripling” of its tax burden that renders new projects economically impossible. The decision…
Library image British Transport Police in duty More than two-thirds of parents and grandparents fear their children or grandchildren will be victims of robbery while using the London railway network,…
British Transport Police has reported a man from Kent, who converted a staple gun into a deadly firearm and tested its firepower in a field, has been jailed, following a…
Library image British Transport Police (BTP) is stepping up protective security measures across the rail network, including key routes through Kent, following the “horrific” terrorist attack at Bondi Beach, Australia,…
Eurotunnel in Cheriton It’s understood the owner of the Channel Tunnel, Getlink (formerly Eurotunnel), has announced the cancellation of all future rail investments in the UK, citing an “unparalleled” and…
The Armistice Day excursion pulls into Folkestone West Photo: Ray Duff A newly restored locomotive, saved and rebuilt just miles away in Kent, made its debut on the Armistice Day…
Eurostar – Library Image – Susan Scott – SCOPIX Hopes are soaring in Ashford following a pivotal announcement by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which has been hailed…
Library image: SCOPIX – The 19th century passenger luggage train van, built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, is returning to Dover’s historic Cruise Terminal 1 (former Marine Station)…
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