Two Commonwealth Games-branded rescue locomotives are ready to swing into action and help broken down passenger and freight trains in the West Midlands.
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The number of passenger journeys on Great Britain's railways increased by 5.1% last year, continuing rails long-term increase, new figures have revealed.
The ORRs new report on regional rail usage revealed that 1,464 million passenger journeys were made across Great Britain in 2015-16 more than double the figure declared in 1995-96.
All regions except Scotland saw an overall annual increase of 3% in journeys to or from other regions, with Scotland's figures falling slightly due to exceptional growth during Glasgow's Commonwealth Games in 2014.
The same overall increase applied to journeys within regions which all saw an annual rise of 6.1% to 996.5 million last year, with only the North East showing a mild decline.
With the highest number of total journeys over 934.6 million, London was unsurprisingly the largest contributor to the overall change as over 11 million more journeys travelled to/from the capital last year (397.2 million), with journeys within London also increasing by 9.2% (537.4 million).
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Rail services between many of the major Commonwealth Games venues in Glasgow were experiencing severe disruption on Friday night. Visitors and residents travelling on the Lanark - Glasgow route were subjected to delays and cancellations throughout the evening.

The route takes in the recently-refurbished Dalmarnock Station, near to the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, Exhibition Centre, by the SECC, and Argyle Street, Bridgeton and Central Stations in the city centre.
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