Alongside levelling the tax playing field and reforming fares, the RDG has also called for greater incentivisation to switch freight from road to rail, a rolling programme of electrification, ….

[A]t first the slightest suggestion of approach drove us into the scullery in heart-throbbing retreat.

The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.

However, the principal industries (light industry, electricity production and others) suffered a continuous decline and ... less in December, 1997 than a year before. ln 1998, rates of industrial tangibly slowened down […]