The row over Luton council's plan to junk the intact - but disused - rail line to Dunstable and build a guided busway on it has entered a new phase with the local MP suggesting that both busway and light rail could be accommodated.

The Government and the Strategic Rail Authority were urged today to introduce a national railcard.

The payment to Railtrack that was brought forward by the Government (described in our latest news feature ‘£7.5bn rail boost’) is good news to Railfuture.

The work of Friends of Handforth Station was recognised at the Rail Oscars award ceremony in London on 24 March.

The largest information technology contract ever awarded by Britain’s rail industry will allow train operators to divide up the revenue from ticket sales between them more efficiently.

Forty years after a rail line was condemned to die by Dr Beeching, it is celebrating a new lease of life.

A new not-for profit company called Network Rail is expected to take over Railtrack plc's responsibility for maintaining Britain's railways from July this year.

A Compass Tours railtour

Bristol Temple Meads station

Picture by Rail Link Engineering, project managers and designers of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Britain’s busiest railway line, which usually carries 650,000 people a day, is still closed after a train derailment 47 days ago.

Berlin's new Hauptbahnhof

This revised timetable booklet is available

The railway track is still in place and needs only standard remedial work to be of operational standard. This picture was taken at Over in 2003.

An alliance of 14 national environmental organisations, including the Railway Development Society, is launched today to try to stop the Government taking the road to ruin.