A new appeal to make rail fares in rural areas more affordable has been made to the Strategic Rail Authority.

Rail campaigners around Britain are preparing for the Railfuture Rail Users conference on Saturday 1 November 2003.

Rail fares in Britain are much too high and are preventing the rail network playing a proper role in reducing road traffic.

A ten-point programme to improve rural rail services has been issued by rail experts.

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.

Virgin Trains managing director Chris Green is one of the speakers at the Railfuture rail user groups conference in London on 5 October 2002.

Green hero Sue Kedgley

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.

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 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, lords and bishops visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the Esk Valley Line on 3 September 2003.

Expansion for the Leeds light rail scheme is being considered even before work really gets under way on the original project.

The world premiere performance of The Permanent Way will take place at the Theatre Royal, York, in November 2003.