The row over Luton council's plan to junk the intact - but disused - rail line to Dunstable and build a guided busway on it has entered a new phase with the local MP suggesting that both busway and light rail could be accommodated.

The Government and the Strategic Rail Authority were urged today to introduce a national railcard.

The payment to Railtrack that was brought forward by the Government (described in our latest news feature ‘£7.5bn rail boost’) is good news to Railfuture.

The work of Friends of Handforth Station was recognised at the Rail Oscars award ceremony in London on 24 March.

The largest information technology contract ever awarded by Britain’s rail industry will allow train operators to divide up the revenue from ticket sales between them more efficiently.

Forty years after a rail line was condemned to die by Dr Beeching, it is celebrating a new lease of life.

A new not-for profit company called Network Rail is expected to take over Railtrack plc's responsibility for maintaining Britain's railways from July this year.

Picture by Rail Link Engineering, project managers and designers of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Britain’s busiest railway line, which usually carries 650,000 people a day, is still closed after a train derailment 47 days ago.

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.

The only though trains between West Yorkshire and Glasgow are being withdrawn on the orders of the Strategic Rail Authority with the flimsiest excuse.

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.

An ambitious plan to reopen 13 miles of railway in Scotland took a major step forward on 26 February 2003 in the Scottish Parliament.

One of the most exciting construction projects in Europe is quietly going ahead in Britain.

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.

The Strategic Rail Authority is being urged to change its mind and reinstate freight grants which encourage traffic to switch from road to rail.

Timetables were re-drawn on the Mid Wales rail network after Railtrack failed to upgrade the line from 75mph to 90mph.

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 Light Railway is planning a further extension to Dagenham Dock via Barking Reach at a cost of £150million.

The first of Britain's new breed of tilting trains entered service on 27 January 2003.