His nickname sprung from his time cycling the seven-mile journey to Westminster, followed by his family's appearance on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bikes by train.
Rail services hit by delays after a train derailed and caught fire in Salford have returned to normal, Northern Rail said.
London Underground is to be prosecuted by the rail regulator over a runaway engineering train.
The separation of the rail network from train operating companies, by contrast, has not.
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Rail finance is under acute strain because the rail regulator has reduced access charges paid by the train-operating and freight companies.
Rail services have been severely disrupted by the weather, with train cancellations by several operators.
The team travelled by coach and rail to Paris on Tuesday, took a train to Bordeaux from Paris on Wednesday and then flew to the Spanish city of Madrid.
In North Yorkshire, a driver escaped uninjured after his car was hit by a train when it skidded on snow and onto rail tracks at a level crossing near Selby.
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Five new platforms, an elevated railway, a new station entrance and a new train depot are among the improvements laid out by Network Rail.
Rail services in the north west continue to be disrupted by the derailment of a train in Salford.
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While all of these improvements are greatly needed, funding high-speed rail piecemeal and state-by-state instead of as a federal project means that train and track technology may differ.
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Federal officials have narrowed their probe into the cause of a May 17 derailment and train crash in Connecticut, saying a cracked rail joint where the first train slid off the tracks had been repaired by maintenance workers last month.
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Maintenance firm Tube Lines and Scheerbau, the train's owner, are also to be prosecuted by the Office of Rail Regulation.
In France, rail operator SNCF is preparing for increased competition by launching the first ever low-cost, high speed train.
The signalman was distracted by a phone call and thought the train had passed in January last year, the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) found.
Anthony Smith, of consumer group Passenger Focus, said passengers would be pleased to see Network Rail and the train companies "planning together to keep investing to meet key passenger priorities as shown by Passenger Focus research".
Better rail links between North and South Wales and Wales and the rest of the UK have been called for by passengers and train staff alike for years.
Railtrack is considering its response to a highly critical report, commissioned by the rail regulator, which accuses the company of lacking firm investment targets and failing to address the concerns of train operators about inadequate capacity.
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