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.

Restoration work has started on Britain

The Strategic Rail Authority has appointed an outsider to a newly created strategic planning post.

A transport expert has labelled the guided bus scheme proposed for the Cambridge-S Ives line a

Supporters of Transport 2000 and Friends of the Earth plan a protest on Thursday 21 March 2002 aimed at saving the Network Railcard.

A new production of Henry Lewis

Train operators are trying to further undermine the value of the network railcard, after attempting unsuccessfully to abolish it completely.

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.

A global railway day will be held on Tuesday 26 March to highlight the need for safe and successful rail networks.

The Strategic Rail Authority has handed over responsibility for overseeing the Merseyrail franchise to the local passenger transport authority.

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.

Railfuture members are helping to draw up lists of small rail improvement projects, in response to a request from Transport Minister John Spellar.

Work began last year on the final section of the Channel Tunnel fast link from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras.

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.

Work will accelerate in the New Year on the final section of the Channel Tunnel fast link from Ebbsfleet to St Pancras.

The entire rail network closes down on Christmas Day.

A new film highlighting the problems of rail privatisation is being show on TV on Sunday 2 December.

The rail passenger pressure group Railfuture is urging the Government to ensure that a stronger rail industry emerges from the Railtrack crisis.

Rail passengers from around Britain get together in London on Saturday 6 October for a conference organised by Railfuture.

The threat of a DIY store being built on land at Carlisle which would have blocked expansion of both freight and passenger services between England and Scotland has been lifted.