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Fast progress

Author: railwatch - Published Fri 17 of Mar, 2006 17:46 GMT - (2595 Reads)
Picture by Rail Link Engineering, project managers and designers of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

The long wait

Author: railwatch - 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.

Misguided bus

Author: Ray King - 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

Author: railwatch - 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

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The only though trains between West Yorkshire and Glasgow are being withdrawn on the orders of the Strategic Rail Authority with the flimsiest excuse.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

Author: railwatch - 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

Author: railwatch - 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.

Rail for future

Author: Ray King - 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

Fast link

Author: railwatch - 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.

Thameslink boost

Author: Ray King - 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

Author: railwatch - 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

Author: railwatch - 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

Author: railwatch - 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

Author: railwatch - 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”.