News that the Strategic Rail Authority is to consider a new high speed line between London, the North of England and Scotland is exciting.

Building on its established graduate recruitment programme, Porterbrook Leasing is looking for applicants to join its 2003 programme.

Rail users in Wales are dismayed that the Welsh Assembly has dropped key rail schemes from its official Transport Framework.

The plan to rebuild the railway from Penrith to Keswick in the Lake District has been making progress thanks to a helicopter.

Digging has started in Hackney, east London, on the ventilation shaft for the £3.3billion second phase of the Channel Tunnel fast link.

After a series of handouts to road hauliers and the road lobby in general, the Government has at last done something to help railfreight.

American President George Bush's refusal to ratify the Kyoto treaty was a "declaration of war on the environment" according to Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer.

'People power' really does work, as the Totnes Rail Transport Group (TRTG), a member of Railfuture, has shown. Last week TRTG persuaded First Great Western to back-track on their plan to cut station staff on Sundays, after taking the case to the Strategic Rail Authority.

The Government is throwing money away on ever-more expensive road-building projects

Politicians are backing an organisation which has stimulated many ailing railways by co-operation and enthusiasm.

Campaigners are calling for action now to ensure that we get a National Railcard

After years of waiting, there are signs that part of the East-West rail link could be given the go-ahead.

Audiences at the National Theatre are being "provoked" by a play about rail privatisation.

Bad drivers are bad for our health and safety.

South Korea's first high speed train service has begun operation.

New brake blocks should make freight trains less intrusive at night.

A project to separate local from long-distance trains near Grantham should improve services on the East Coast main line.