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Cash Boost

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 25 of Jun, 2002 19:48 BST - (2796 Reads)
The Association of Community-Rail Partnerships (ACoRP) has awarded nearly

Ticket check

Author: railwatch - Published Mon 17 of Jun, 2002 20:53 BST - (2778 Reads)
Central Trains has employed an extra 24 staff to provide permanently staffed barriers at Birmingham New Street station.

Reopening success

Author: railwatch - Published Wed 12 of Jun, 2002 10:34 BST - (5785 Reads)
A reopened rail line is going from strength to strength, nine years after trains started running again.

Misleading busway

Author: railwatch - Published Wed 17 of Apr, 2002 15:07 BST - (2804 Reads)
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld three complaints on 10 April 2002 against Luton Borough Council, ruling that an advertisement about the guided bus planned for the Luton-Dunstable rail line contained factual inaccuracies that meant it was misleading.

Strategic thinking

Author: railwatch - Published Fri 05 of Apr, 2002 16:05 BST - (3003 Reads)
The Strategic Rail Authority has appointed an outsider to a newly created strategic planning post.

Bus con trick

Author: railwatch - Published Thu 21 of Mar, 2002 13:52 GMT - (2617 Reads)
A transport expert has labelled the guided bus scheme proposed for the Cambridge-S Ives line a

Railcard protest

Author: railwatch - Published Wed 20 of Mar, 2002 19:37 GMT - (2613 Reads)
Supporters of Transport 2000 and Friends of the Earth plan a protest on Thursday 21 March 2002 aimed at saving the Network Railcard.

Fares shocker

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 05 of Mar, 2002 15:39 GMT - (2682 Reads)
Train operators are trying to further undermine the value of the network railcard, after attempting unsuccessfully to abolish it completely.

Rail future

Author: railwatch - Published Sat 02 of Mar, 2002 17:56 GMT - (2567 Reads)
The 21st century promises to be the railway century. Roads are facing increasing congestion in most industrialised countries, as well as continued, and growing, opposition to the use of car and construction of new roads for environmental reasons.

Rail safety

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 26 of Feb, 2002 21:02 GMT - (3023 Reads)
A global railway day will be held on Tuesday 26 March to highlight the need for safe and successful rail networks.

Mersey first

Author: railwatch - Published Tue 12 of Feb, 2002 18:20 GMT - (2832 Reads)
The Strategic Rail Authority has handed over responsibility for overseeing the Merseyrail franchise to the local passenger transport authority.

Rail freight revival

Author: railwatch - Published Sun 20 of Jan, 2002 20:47 GMT - (2651 Reads)
The first commercial freight train for 20 years ran out of Portbury docks, near Bristol, this month carrying 1,200 tons of imported coal along the recently reopened Portishead line.

Way forward

Author: railwatch - Published Sat 19 of Jan, 2002 11:25 GMT - (3271 Reads)
Railfuture members are helping to draw up lists of small rail improvement projects, in response to a request from Transport Minister John Spellar.

Link to Europe

Author: railwatch - Published Fri 11 of Jan, 2002 13:57 GMT - (2610 Reads)
Work began last year on the final section of the Channel Tunnel fast link from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras.

A group with heart

Author: railwatch - Published Mon 31 of Dec, 2001 12:02 GMT - (2763 Reads)
Travelling by train is the safest way to go but there are still concerns. One of them is the potential for delay in getting first aid treatment if anyone is taken ill on a moving train.

Link to Europe

Author: railwatch - Published Sun 30 of Dec, 2001 15:57 GMT - (2554 Reads)
Work will accelerate in the New Year on the final section of the Channel Tunnel fast link from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras.