Photo competition
Published Tue 04 of Nov, 2014 09:41 GMT - (12765 Reads) -New class 68 No 68004, seen here at Peterborough, is working from Norwich to Doncaster while 66529 brings an empty stone train from March, bound for Mount Sorrel.
RUG Award winners 2014
Published Mon 03 of Nov, 2014 13:06 GMT - (7450 Reads) -Railfuture President Christian Wolmar presents Peter Marshall, Chairman of Huddersfield Penistone Sheffield Rail Users Association, with the Gold Award for Best Newsletter.
London Bridge
Published Wed 29 of Oct, 2014 10:05 GMT - (8192 Reads) -Work starts on £450M London Bridge station redevelopment
CGI of New London Bridge concourse by Network Rail.
CGI of New London Bridge concourse by Network Rail.
Stations at risk
Published Sun 19 of Oct, 2014 22:56 BST - (6970 Reads) -East West Rail Go
Published Fri 17 of Oct, 2014 16:58 BST - (25279 Reads) -Scotland Moves Forward
Published Fri 10 of Oct, 2014 12:54 BST - (10997 Reads) -Over 500 pupils from 13 primary schools across the Scottish Borders and Midlothian have had the chance to get hands-on engineering experience thanks to the Borders Railway ‘Bridges to Schools’ project, supported by the ICE
Your view on rail police
Published Fri 03 of Oct, 2014 15:44 BST - (2964 Reads) -What matters to you?
British Transport Police is committed to getting you home safe, secure and on time. In setting their policing priorities for next year, they want to hear your views and find out about what matters to you while using the railway or the London Underground network.
Please answer the BTP survey by 31st October at www.btp.police.uk/survey.aspx.
British Transport Police is committed to getting you home safe, secure and on time. In setting their policing priorities for next year, they want to hear your views and find out about what matters to you while using the railway or the London Underground network.
Please answer the BTP survey by 31st October at www.btp.police.uk/survey.aspx.
Pubsect franchises
Published Tue 30 of Sep, 2014 22:45 BST - (11201 Reads) -London Overground train (operating as a concession granted by Transport for London) arriving at South Acton station.
18-year wait for link
Published Fri 26 of Sep, 2014 12:31 BST - (8078 Reads) -New rail mega city
Published Thu 25 of Sep, 2014 22:31 BST - (9125 Reads) -Rail freight rebirth
Published Fri 19 of Sep, 2014 22:21 BST - (7720 Reads) -Climate special
Published Tue 16 of Sep, 2014 22:15 BST - (9037 Reads) -Electrify Uckfield!
Published Tue 02 of Sep, 2014 12:55 BST - (15486 Reads) -Hard-pressed commuters across northern England would get 44 modern Southern diesel carriages to relieve crowding as soon as two short routes in Kent and East Sussex are electrified. Photo from Twitter.
Northern double whammy
Published Tue 26 of Aug, 2014 19:30 BST - (11415 Reads) -It could be argued that the subsidy quoted by the Department for Transport for passengers on Northern Rail services is helping to pay for infrastructure development such as Reading station, recently opened by the Queen but shown here under construction.
Fare Increase Viewpoint
Published Mon 25 of Aug, 2014 16:29 BST - (14439 Reads) -Graphic from the BBC web-site on day that RPI figures were published showing the relationship between rail fare increases in Britain (although actually the England-only increases for the last couple of years) and UK inflation over the last 26 years. The negative RPI on 2009 was caused by a huge drop in mortgage interest rates (which are excluded from CPI calculations).
UK Rail Industry Forum
Published Mon 11 of Aug, 2014 22:13 BST - (12239 Reads) -The UK Rail Industry Forum will be held on 11th September from 09:45 until 17:50 at Dentons in London.
Tring welcomes Crossrail
Published Thu 07 of Aug, 2014 22:41 BST - (13055 Reads) -Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin today announced a feasibility study into the extension of Crossrail to Tring.
The case for Okehampton
Published Sun 03 of Aug, 2014 18:37 BST - (21982 Reads) -Why reopening Okehampton is the only solution - a purely personal view by Philip Shelton.
Photograph of Meldon Viaduct by Martin Cordon, reproduced under GNU Free Documentation License.
Photograph of Meldon Viaduct by Martin Cordon, reproduced under GNU Free Documentation License.
Election fares fight
Published Sat 02 of Aug, 2014 20:54 BST - (10491 Reads) -High speed Turkey
Published Fri 01 of Aug, 2014 09:59 BST - (10054 Reads) -Railfuture’s campaigns, opinions and successes are often reported by the press and media, see Railfuture in the news.