Lexiteers, happily aped by Nigel Farage, claim that EU rules prevent nationalisation. This is simply wrong, as any reading of the law would reveal.

Brussels says offer is 'strictly time-limited'

A 44-year-old man has been arrested after Eurostar trains from London were suspended because of a protester draped in a St George’s flag.

Note found after attempted sabotage read: 'We will bring this country to its knees if we don't leave'.

Police are investigating attempts to sabotage rail lines after two devices bearing pro-Brexit slogans were planted on train tracks.

Police are investigating two pro-Brexit "sabotage" attempts to disrupt Britain's rail network. Home-made short-circuit devices were found clipped to railway tracks in Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire last week.

Two "malicious" devices were left on railway tracks in a pro-Brexit sabotage attempt, police have said.

The delay to Brexit has brought one unexpected travel bonus for 18-year-old British citizens: the chance for a free rail ticket to “experience Europe’s diversity, better understand each other and learn more about Europe”.

The UK’s second-biggest steel production company has been left in need of an emergency loan because of the failed Brexit negotiations. British Steel, which employs 5,000 people across the UK, is said to be in talks with Whitehall for a £100 million loan after it got frozen out of an EU-wide carbon trading scheme.

IPPR thinktank rebuts claims that a leftwing Labour government’s hands would be tied by Brussels. / Britain could triple state aid spending to industry without breaching EU rules, according to a study that compares government subsidies to promote economic growth across Europe.

The UK’s train operators are to pull out of the Interrail scheme, which has allowed unlimited train travel across Europe for a fixed price for almost 50 years.

SNP MEP Alyn Smith has warned Scots may be priced out of travelling around Europe after the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) announced Britain will be leaving the Interrail and Eurail schemes.

After an express turnaround, rail guru says: ‘Many, many people young and old will appreciate this for years to come’.

The sale of British Steel to Chinese firm Jingye could be scuppered by French intervention.

39th Report of Session 2017-19 - published 21 May 2019 - HL Paper 355

Campaigners say direct links between capitals could significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Senior Tory Simon Hoare suggests ‘putting the hallucinogenics down’ and making the protocol work

A LOCAL heritage railway has discovered that the movement of goods between Britain and Northern Ireland is not going full steam ahead post Brexit.

Post-Brexit trade disruption and ongoing congestion are causing critical build-ups of containers at UK ports, according to the latest data from Container xChange.

Since the Brexit, a shift of volumes has been observed to Ireland, and rail is taking the benefit. In Ireland as well as in Europe, seabound cargo is reaching the hinterland by train. And the volumes continue to increase, judging by the number of vessels going out.

A busy rail freight line that ran cargo directly from Dublin Port to Ballina in Co Mayo for local businesses such as Coca-Cola has been suspended because the port is so clogged up following Brexit.

Regular rail freight services between Dublin Port and the intermodal terminal at Ballina in the north-west of Ireland have been suspended. The extraordinary cause is a backlog of cargo in the port, which operators blame on congestion in the wake of Brexit. The matter has been the subject of debate in the Irish parliament, and widely reported in Irish media.

"Bloody EU, promoting international train travel to save the planet," Best For Britain said.

Be that down to Brexit, suppressed world trade, supply chain issues or the political climate, Britain seems to be falling out of the overland picture, opened with such enthusiasm almost exactly four years ago.

Surely we can do better than sticking British flag logos onto German-owned, Japanese-made trains?