Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

The bank holiday getaway is likely to be a tricky one, with transport analysts predicting congested roads and the year’s busiest day so far for departing airports, while long-distance rail passengers dodge the start of more engineering work. Motoring organisations […]

The rollout of electric vehicle chargers across Britain is “patchy”, behind deadline and ignores the needs of disabled drivers, the parliamentary spending watchdog has found. A report published by the public accounts committee (PAC) warned that the charging points needed

Britain’s biggest festive getaway in years was set to start on Friday, as millions of people took to road, rail and skies to see thei loved ones over Christmas. Airports, train operators and motoring organisations have all forecast traveller numbers

The rail minister, Peter Hendy, has apologised for emails where he threatened to withhold contracts from a supplier whose engineer had publicly raised safety concerns about overcrowding at Euston station. Lord Hendy told an industry conference in London that the

An automated system that helps train wheels grip the tracks failed on one of the trains that crashed head-on in mid-Wales on 21 October, investigators have revealed. The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) said the westbound train involved in the

Ryanair’s profits have dropped by nearly a fifth, as lower peak-season fares met higher costs that the airline blamed partly on problems at Boeing. Summer fares were down by an average 7% as Ryanair cut prices to keep its planes

Transport group Go-Ahead has announced a £500m investment in up to 1,200 UK-built electric buses from Northern Ireland-based Wrightbus. The order is expected to support about 500 manufacturing jobs and create a new line at Wrightbus, based in Ballymena, Northern

As cyber-attacks go, it could have been worse. In Nightsleeper, the new BBC thriller airing just after Transport for London revealed its systems had been breached, passengers are locked aboard as a train seized by hackers hurtles dangerously towards the

The younger, tormented minister mulling his position before the Labour government granted Heathrow’s third runway in 2009 might have been greatly relieved to know that, 15 years later, not a shovel would have touched the ground. But now, returning to

Ryanair said it has reaped strong traffic growth after a summer when the airline’s fares were down 5% and passenger numbers passed 20 million a month. Shares in Europe’s biggest carrier rose on Tuesday, after the group chief executive, Michael