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Train Travel Woes? Strike Ballot Result Due (SkyNews )
Train passengers could face severe disruption over Easter if workers decide to hold the first national rail strike in 16 years.

Train Chaos Threat As Workers Vote For Strike (SkyNews )
Train passengers could face travel chaos over Easter after signal workers voted to hold the first national rail strike in 16 years.

Simon Calder: What's the truth about travel? Don't ask me (Independent)
Truth can be elusive, especially in travel. Take the Stansted Express: its timetables have often been compared to works of fiction, but now the creaky old train link to London Liverpool Street has finally been accelerated. "Train to London, 35 minutes," brags the sign at the ticket desk. So how has National Express East Anglia cut 10 minutes from the fastest journey time?

Ask Tom: travel dilemmas answered (Guardian Unlimited)
Lonely Planet's Tom Hall answers your questions on worldwide travel. This week: making the most of a New Zealand break and Morocco with a toddler in tow I'm going to New Zealand to perform in April, I have about five or six days there before I have to base myself in Auckland for the shows. I'm planning to go on my own, and want to get the most out of the South Island in those few days. What ...

Air and rail strikes threaten travel plans and Labour hopes (Daily Telegraph)
Strikes by British Airways staff and rail workers threaten to throw the travel plans of millions of people into chaos.

Rugby supporters face travel chaos (Belfast Telegraph)
Around 1,200 rugby fans face travel chaos on Saturday after a cross-border rail service from Belfast to Dublin was cancelled due to a dissident republican security alert. Related Stories Corrie star charged over crash Parliamentarian may face charges Abuse and celibacy 'not linked' Boy charged over screwdriver death Girl rescued in trafficking raid

Consumer: How to keep the cost of train travel down (Yorkshire Evening Post)
New high speed trains will cut travel time but how will the creation of super fast track transport affect fares? Sophie Hazan looks at how you can keep the cost of train trave

Rugby supporters face travel chaos (Press Assoc. )
Around 1,200 rugby fans face travel chaos on Saturday after a cross-border rail service from Belfast to Dublin was cancelled due to a dissident republican security alert.

Consumer: How to keep the cost of train travel down (Leeds Today)
New high speed trains will cut travel time but how will the creation of super fast track transport affect fares? Sophie Hazan looks at how you can keep the cost of train travel down. (15/03/2010 12:16:13)

Talks fail to calm train strike fears (Daily Mirror)
Crisis talks held to avoid a national rail strike ended last night raising fears of travel chaos at Easter.