The Castlefield Corridor – a great opportunity for freight, and a way to enable reliable passenger services across Manchester. A Trafford Park to Southampton Western Docks freight train approaches Platform 13 at Manchester Piccadilly. To the left is the rear of a train to Trafford Park from London Gateway. Without these two trains, four more passenger trains could cross Manchester every hour.

There is now a rail solution for the Luton-Dunstable line rather than the misguided idea of converting it to a busway.

New trains will boost the number of seats on offer this year on the Midland main line from London St Pancras to Luton, bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds

The Docklands light railway is to be extended across the River Thames to link with the National Rail network at Woolwich. But a main line rail link would have been better.

Leisure becomes a threat to essential rail link

A preserved railway has been named the Railway of the Year in a tourist guide.

Supermarkets are beginning to switch freight from road to rail.

High-speed rail services in Kent could in future be run by Danish State Railways.

A new light rail system should bring some relief to the polluted city of Houston, Texas.