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Sunday, 29 September 2019

BBC News

• Rain causes railway mudslide and travel disruptionRail services are disrupted and events cancelled as heavy rain sweeps across England and Wales.

Leeds Live

• Live updates as heavy rain causes mudslide on train tracks and major flooding across West YorkshireTrain services have been cancelled after a significant mudslide

Other Regional Press

• Buses to replace trains on stretch of Weymouth-Waterloo line next month Buses will replace trains between Poole and Dorchester South next month.

Other News Sources

• The London Underground line that was built in secretBack before we had the lovely unified TfL we enjoy today, various cut throat railway businesses fought for control of London’s transport network.
• Residents concerned about 'excessive' cutting of vegetation and trees by rail lines in BathThey say Network Rail is going too far when it cuts back greenery as part of its safety works
• The eerie train graveyard found by urban explorer near GrimsbyOld British Rail carriages and locomotives abandoned at secret location in north Lincolnshire
• Bury St Edmunds MP Jo Churchill backs teenager's call for more carriages on Greater Anglia trainsA teenager’s campaign for better rail services has inspired Bury St Edmunds MP Jo Churchill to call on Greater Anglia for improvement. Oscar Hedge, 17, said carriages on his daily commute to Cambridge are overcrowded to the point of being ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘dangerous’.