Fare bargains

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 03 of Oct, 2006 09:22 BST - (2901 Reads)
Rail fares in Britain are much too high and are preventing the rail network playing a proper role in reducing road traffic.

Rural railways

Author: railwatch - Published Thu 28 of Sep, 2006 17:09 BST - (2769 Reads)
A ten-point programme to improve rural rail services has been issued by rail experts.

London freight

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 26 of Sep, 2006 15:01 BST - (3152 Reads)
The rail director of Transport for London - Ian Brown - will be the key speaker at a conference to look at the potential of rail freight for London.

Make it happen

Author: railwatch - Published Sat 23 of Sep, 2006 19:48 BST - (3228 Reads)
Virgin Trains managing director Chris Green is one of the speakers at the Railfuture rail user groups conference in London on 5 October 2002.

Victory No 1

Author: railwatch - Published Thu 21 of Sep, 2006 23:22 BST - (3300 Reads)
The Cambridge to St Ives Railway Organisation (CAST.IRON), which aims to open Britain's first Community Commuter Railway, has won its first major victory against Cambridgeshire County Council which wishes to destroy the railway to build a largely unwanted guided busway on the Cambridge to St Ives railway.

Trans-Pennine rail

Author: Ray King - Published Mon 18 of Sep, 2006 11:30 BST - (7493 Reads)
Two of SELRAP's patrons, Gordon Prentice MP and David Curry MP, shake hands on the trackbed on the border of their two constituencies, also the border of Pendle and Craven District Councils and also the present border between Lancashire and (North)Yorkshire.

Freightliner losses

Author: railwatch - Published Mon 11 of Sep, 2006 13:27 BST - (2707 Reads)
Freightliner is blaming ‘unprecedented disruption’ to the rail network following the Hatfield crash in October last year for its £7 million loss,announced on Monday 11 September.

MPs on track

Author: railwatch - Published Mon 04 of Sep, 2006 13:27 BST - (3049 Reads)
MPs, lords and bishops visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the Esk Valley Line on 3 September 2003.

Super rail

Author: railwatch - Published Mon 07 of Aug, 2006 13:59 BST - (3030 Reads)
Expansion for the Leeds light rail scheme is being considered even before work really gets under way on the original project.

Reasons to be angry

Author: railwatch - Published Wed 02 of Aug, 2006 11:27 BST - (2571 Reads)
The world premiere performance of The Permanent Way will take place at the Theatre Royal, York, in November 2003.

Eurostar offer

Author: railwatch - Published Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:17 BST - (2822 Reads)
Eurostar stepped in this week to help BA passengers worried by the uncertainty of a strike threat by airline staff at Heathrow.

Cast iron

Author: railwatch - Published Wed 19 of Jul, 2006 11:09 BST - (2673 Reads)
The Cambridge and St Ives Railway Organisation has launched an appeal for volunteers and funds in its quest to reopen the railway in stages … and received a pledge of £100,000 within an hour of the proposals being published.