Reconnected: Crowds greet the steam engine Oliver Cromwell as it crosses from the national rail network on to the preserved North Norfolk Railway in March 2010. Picture: Richard Dixon

An impression of how Canary Wharf station will look

A London Midland train at Northampton in August 2010.
Picture by Philip Bisatt

Louise Ellman

UCKFIELD: The county council wants to build a road over the railway trackbed at Uckfield, East Sussex. Railfuture says that if the road is built it should be on a bridge that allows the railway to reopen

The new King's Cross concourse

The cutting heads of the Crossrail tunnel boring machines, Phyllis and Ada, at Westbourne Grove with, in the background, the awful, 1960s polluted edifice of Westway flyover, the road which has blighted a vast area of London

Closed ticket offices: Operators have already tried this dead-end way to save money at the expense of providing a service.

Student supporters of the Honolulu rail project           Picture: Yes2Rail

Arriva train at Ballencrieff. Picture by Stephen Gorman

Transport Secretary Justine Greening with a high speed Javelin train at London St Pancras station today (10 January 2012), announcing the go-ahead for HS2

An artist's impression of the roof lights showing where the new underground mainline tracks will go with the existing Stuttgart station in the background. Picture: Deutsche Bahn AG

Poster distributed by the rail ticket office staff's union

Enthusiasm: People crowded Swavesey station in 1979 to join a special train. Hopes that the trains would be restored were dashed when politicians and planners failed to respond. Picture: Alan Moore