England

Rail fares will be frozen nationwide for the first time in three decades, with the chancellor and the transport secretary unveiling a budget move that they said maintains prices on season tickets, peak return fares for commuters, and off-peak returns between major cities.

The United Kingdom’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch has opted not to undertake a full investigation into the August collision of a train load with a footbridge on the Dean Forest Railway in Gloucestershire.

Britain’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch has opened an inquiry into a Nov. 3 derailment near Shap, Cumbria, after a Glasgow Central–London Euston passenger train hit a landslip and left the rails.

British Transport Police said they are leading the investigation into Anthony Williams, 32, and are linking five knife incidents across two days that culminated in a multiple stabbing on a London North Eastern Railway Doncaster–London King’s Cross train near Huntingdon.

The United Kingdom government was expected to introduce legislation today to formally create Great British Railways.

The U.K.’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch is calling for new level-crossing safeguards after an 11-year-old was struck and killed by a passenger train at Bourneview footpath crossing near Kenley, south London, in January.