Trains are running again between Horsham and Dorking (Main) this morning, after more than two weeks of disruption caused by a landslip. The route was closed on 27 January after the slip at Ockley had left two lines hanging in the air. The soil had given way along a nine-metre section of embankment leaving the lines unsupported in a ‘rotational failure’. Network Rail attributed the slip to heavy rain, following a wet winter.

Fares on ScotRail will be frozen for 12 months, following a similar freeze south of the border. First Minister John Swinney said it was part of his government’s ‘resolute focus on the cost of living’. Peak fares have already been abolished on ScotRail routes. The freeze has been welcomed by the TSSA union, although it called for the SNP government to be replaced by a Labour administration.