The Cambridge to St Ives Railway Organisation (CAST.IRON), which aims to open Britain's first Community Commuter Railway, has won its first major victory against Cambridgeshire County Council which wishes to destroy the railway to build a largely unwanted guided busway on the Cambridge to St Ives railway.

Freightliner is blaming ‘unprecedented disruption’ to the rail network following the Hatfield crash in October last year for its £7 million loss,announced on Monday 11 September.

MPs, lords and bishops visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the Esk Valley Line on 3 September 2003.

Expansion for the Leeds light rail scheme is being considered even before work really gets under way on the original project.

The world premiere performance of The Permanent Way will take place at the Theatre Royal, York, in November 2003.

Eurostar stepped in this week to help BA passengers worried by the uncertainty of a strike threat by airline staff at Heathrow.

The Cambridge and St Ives Railway Organisation has launched an appeal for volunteers and funds in its quest to reopen the railway in stages … and received a pledge of £100,000 within an hour of the proposals being published.

An inter-city style train is to be re-introduced to the Settle-Carlisle line as well as providing a peak-hour service between Leeds and Knaresborough.

America's House of Representatives looks set to starve Amtrak of funds while handing out billions of dollars for road building.

Plans to extend Croydon’s successful tram network have entered the next stage of development with Transport for London choosing three of six proposals to examine further.

The largest single project in the history of German Railways becomes reality this year.

Railway land will have a higher level of protection in future, thanks to a recent legal decision.

The campaign to rebuild the Wensleydale railway has won support from TV actor Robert Hardy.

The Government is at last beginning to recognise that something needs to be done about the appalling road congestion in the south east of England.

July 4th is a special day for all who have been campaigning to reopen the scenic Wensleydale Railway.

Funding has yet again been identified as the main reason why rail cannot play its proper function in national transport policy.

A £329million contract to supply rubber-tyred trains and to help build a new 10-mile long rapid transit line has been won by Bombardier Transportation which has a factory in Derby.

The Government is being urged to back the East London Line Extension, now that a judge has rejected blocking tactics by a group which wanted to preserve Bishopsgate viaduct and goods yard.

A ten-point programme to improve rural rail services has been issued by rail experts.

More than 40,000 tonnes of paper which is currently transported by road will in future go by rail thanks to a £100,000 award by the Strategic Rail Authority.