Freightliner losses
- Published Mon 11 of Sep, 2006 13:27 BST - (2707 Reads)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 on track
- Published Mon 04 of Sep, 2006 13:27 BST - (3049 Reads)MPs, lords and bishops visited the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the Esk Valley Line on 3 September 2003.
Rail festival
- Published Sun 20 of Aug, 2006 15:59 BST - (5970 Reads)Super rail
- Published Mon 07 of Aug, 2006 13:59 BST - (3030 Reads)Expansion for the Leeds light rail scheme is being considered even before work really gets under way on the original project.
Reasons to be angry
- Published Wed 02 of Aug, 2006 11:27 BST - (2571 Reads)The world premiere performance of The Permanent Way will take place at the Theatre Royal, York, in November 2003.
Eurostar offer
- Published Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:17 BST - (2822 Reads)Eurostar stepped in this week to help BA passengers worried by the uncertainty of a strike threat by airline staff at Heathrow.
Cast iron
- Published Wed 19 of Jul, 2006 11:09 BST - (2673 Reads)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.
Halfway house
- Published Mon 17 of Jul, 2006 18:38 BST - (6547 Reads)An artist's impression of Warwick Intermodal Station on Rhode island
Yorkshire progress
- Published Sat 15 of Jul, 2006 10:29 BST - (3380 Reads)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.
Fireworks special
- Published Fri 14 of Jul, 2006 23:48 BST - (5361 Reads)Rail campaigner Richard Crane with the train named after him
Open victory
- Published Wed 12 of Jul, 2006 20:25 BST - (4962 Reads)Amtrak starved
- Published Wed 12 of Jul, 2006 13:11 BST - (2671 Reads)America's House of Representatives looks set to starve Amtrak of funds while handing out billions of dollars for road building.
On target
- Published Mon 10 of Jul, 2006 13:11 BST - (4851 Reads)More trams
- Published Fri 07 of Jul, 2006 11:04 BST - (2945 Reads)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.
£92m bus dump
- Published Sun 02 of Jul, 2006 11:52 BST - (6671 Reads)Where Cast-Iron wants to run trains not buses.
Rail take-off
- Published Tue 27 of Jun, 2006 16:55 BST - (2787 Reads)The largest single project in the history of German Railways becomes reality this year.
Landmark victory
- Published Mon 26 of Jun, 2006 16:33 BST - (2759 Reads)Railway land will have a higher level of protection in future, thanks to a recent legal decision.
Electric way
- Published Sat 24 of Jun, 2006 16:26 BST - (6156 Reads)A diesel-powered train for Bidston at Penyffordd. Picture: Dave Sallery
Target £1million
- Published Sun 18 of Jun, 2006 12:01 BST - (3530 Reads)The campaign to rebuild the Wensleydale railway has won support from TV actor Robert Hardy.
Motorway madness
- Published Sun 11 of Jun, 2006 12:39 BST - (2598 Reads)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.
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