Stagecoach wins railway franchise
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Stagecoach is awarded a new seven-year contract to run services in the East Midlands.
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LEON, Spain -- The all-conquering US Postal squad left arch-rival T-Mobile trailing to win the opening team time trial stage of the Tour of Spain (La Vuelta) cycle race on Saturday.
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Rail Link claims a surprise victory in the prestigious Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday.
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Hong Kong's subway system has joined a British rail operator to bid for a commuter and high-speed train franchise in southeast England, it was announced.
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Virgin's high-speed tilting trains finally come into passenger service on the West Coast Main Line.
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More trains will run across south Wales and to London as part of a revamp of rail timetables from Sunday.
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Spain&#39;s Santander Central Hispano has claimed victory with its bid for Abbey National after HBOS, seen as the most likely rival suitor, backed out of the race.
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A trial of three hydrogen-powered pollution-free buses on routes in central London proves to be a "success".
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Troubled engineering and construction group Jarvis has bought itself a financial life-line by selling its 33% stake in the Tubes Lines underground consortium to Amey, part of Spanish construction group Ferrovial, for Â£150m.
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The first of Northern Ireland Railway's new fleet of trains has made its first journey from Portadown to Bangor.
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By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--Any fears that the 100-plus-year-old La Hacienda Restaurant and Inn would become yet another notch on a housing developer's belt have been laid to rest with the news that the onetime stagecoach stop is under new ownership.
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By Christopher Hope, Business Correspondent, and Harry Wallop (Filed: 22/11/2004). Phoenix Venture Holdings, the owner of loss-making MG Rover, has sold off the last remaining major piece of land at its Longbridge
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Shareholders in Marks &amp; Spencer yesterday voted overwhelmingly to accept the board&#39;s proposal for the largest tender offer made in Britain by a company for its own shares.
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WPP yesterday scored a victory for the big-is-best approach to the advertising business by winning a â¬1bn (Â£700m) Unilever account ahead of two smaller rivals.
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The UK&#39;s Financial Services Authority approved Santander Central Hispano SA&#39;s 9.4 billion-pound ($17.4 billion) takeover of Abbey National Plc, paving the way for Europe&#39;s biggest cross-border bank merger.
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Travel: A new route from Madrid to Malaga marks the final link in a luxurious rail trip from London to the Costa del Sol. Robin McKie puts it to the test
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Southwest Airlines emerged on Wednesday as the victor in the battle for the assets of ATA, the bankrupt low-cost carrier, beating a rival offer from AirTran and underscoring its