The only though trains between West Yorkshire and Glasgow are being withdrawn on the orders of the Strategic Rail Authority with the flimsiest excuse.

Under the station platform canopy at Barnsley Interchange there now lurk various dogs, cats and other animal characters, waiting to surprise and amuse the unwitting passenger.

An ambitious plan to reopen 13 miles of railway in Scotland took a major step forward on 26 February 2003 in the Scottish Parliament.

Labour MP Emily Thornberry

Amtrak's City of New Orleans train at Kenner, Louisiana, in the 1980s
Picture by John Sita

One of the most exciting construction projects in Europe is quietly going ahead in Britain.

Elaine Holt is the new managing director of First Capital Connect which takes over Thameslink on 1 April

The Strategic Rail Authority agreed yesterday to pay £50million for hundreds of new trains to be stored in army depots for up to four years, because power supplies in southern England need to be upgraded to cope with them.

The Strategic Rail Authority is being urged to change its mind and reinstate freight grants which encourage traffic to switch from road to rail.

Timetables were re-drawn on the Mid Wales rail network after Railtrack failed to upgrade the line from 75mph to 90mph.

Co-op chief executive Pauline Green has called for the Government to turn Railtrack into a “com-munity-owned, multi-stakeholder co-operative business”.

Docklands Light Railway is planning a further extension to Dagenham Dock via Barking Reach at a cost of £150million.

The first of Britain's new breed of tilting trains entered service on 27 January 2003.

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.