The long wait
- Published Mon 13 of Mar, 2006 13:11 GMT - (2485 Reads)Britain’s busiest railway line, which usually carries 650,000 people a day, is still closed after a train derailment 47 days ago.
Rail hub
- Published Sun 12 of Mar, 2006 13:30 GMT - (7827 Reads)Berlin's new Hauptbahnhof
Settle-Carlisle
- Published Thu 09 of Mar, 2006 08:29 GMT - (8134 Reads)This revised timetable booklet is available
Misguided bus
- Published Sun 05 of Mar, 2006 19:49 GMT - (6146 Reads)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.
Road to ruin
- Published Sat 04 of Mar, 2006 23:39 GMT - (2783 Reads)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.
Settle-Carlisle cuts
- Published Sat 04 of Mar, 2006 12:07 GMT - (3248 Reads)The only though trains between West Yorkshire and Glasgow are being withdrawn on the orders of the Strategic Rail Authority with the flimsiest excuse.
Art on the line
- Published Mon 27 of Feb, 2006 10:44 GMT - (2898 Reads)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.
Alloa progress
- Published Sun 26 of Feb, 2006 17:42 GMT - (2941 Reads)An ambitious plan to reopen 13 miles of railway in Scotland took a major step forward on 26 February 2003 in the Scottish Parliament.
Ticket 'disgrace'
- Published Fri 24 of Feb, 2006 16:21 GMT - (5217 Reads)MP backs bikes
- Published Mon 20 of Feb, 2006 22:37 GMT - (4896 Reads)Labour MP Emily Thornberry
Rail for future
- Published Mon 13 of Feb, 2006 10:54 GMT - (6338 Reads)Amtrak's City of New Orleans train at Kenner, Louisiana, in the 1980s
Picture by John Sita
Picture by John Sita
Fast link
- Published Sun 12 of Feb, 2006 20:56 GMT - (2797 Reads)One of the most exciting construction projects in Europe is quietly going ahead in Britain.
Road to disaster
- Published Fri 10 of Feb, 2006 03:42 GMT - (5881 Reads)Thameslink boost
- Published Wed 08 of Feb, 2006 13:49 GMT - (6103 Reads)Elaine Holt is the new managing director of First Capital Connect which takes over Thameslink on 1 April
What a waste
- Published Tue 07 of Feb, 2006 11:18 GMT - (3309 Reads)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.
Lives at risk
- Published Sun 05 of Feb, 2006 12:11 GMT - (2768 Reads)The Strategic Rail Authority is being urged to change its mind and reinstate freight grants which encourage traffic to switch from road to rail.
Rail slowdown
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 18:17 GMT - (2767 Reads)Timetables were re-drawn on the Mid Wales rail network after Railtrack failed to upgrade the line from 75mph to 90mph.
Co-op travel
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 18:05 GMT - (2965 Reads)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 goes east
- Published Mon 30 of Jan, 2006 15:29 GMT - (2756 Reads)Docklands Light Railway is planning a further extension to Dagenham Dock via Barking Reach at a cost of £150million.
New dawn
- Published Sun 29 of Jan, 2006 09:50 GMT - (2669 Reads)The first of Britain's new breed of tilting trains entered service on 27 January 2003.
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