Crime

A man thought to be posing as a rail employee to steal bicycles from stations across the north of England is wanted by British Transport Police (BTP). Officers have said the man, who wears an orange high-visibility vest or yellow...

A train has been seriously damaged after striking a concrete boulder which had been deliberately left on a track between Sheffield and Huddersfield. Although no passengers were injured, British Transport Police (BTP) have described the incident on September 23 as...

Six railway detonators have been stolen from a line in Sunderland - this follows a teenager who lost the sight in his right eye after stealing detonators from a depot in Essex. Police believe the detonators were stolen from the...

On May 8, 1975, a man was struck and killed by a train at Mile End Tube station. To this day his body remains unidentified - and he's not alone. Since 2010, British Transport Police officers have been looking into 55...

CrossCountry Trains has offered a £5,000 reward to find those responsible for throwing a wooden pallet off a bridge and into the path of an oncoming train. The windscreen of the train was smashed in the incident on August 25,...

Two men have been jailed for a total of 10 years after carrying out a series of violent assaults on London's Tube trains. Tyrone Harris, 29, of Shelley Way, Colliers Wood, and Frankie Spink, 25, of Garratt Lane, Tooting, threatened,...

Translink has staged a graphic re-enactment of a track collision to warn pedestrians and motorists about the dangers of trespassing on the railways. There has been a rise in reports of children and young people playing on the railway lines...

Police are looking for a man who poured a bottle of urine on a female passenger as she sat waiting for her train to depart. The victim had sat down beneath an open window on the 20.46 Plumstead to Greenwich...