Rail is the most environmentally sustainable form of transport, particularly for freight. The government's freight growth target of 75% by 2050 is no more than keeping pace with expected economic growth - so it is effectively a no-modal-share growth target. The most cost-effective way to achieve net zero carbon from transport is to set a target of at least doubling rail freight in the next 20 years. 92019 Dollands Moor to Daventry 4M38 Jaguar Land Rover Whitley (from Neuss, Nievenheim, Germany). Image by Train Photos, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.

There is now a rail solution for the Luton-Dunstable line rather than the misguided idea of converting it to a busway.

New trains will boost the number of seats on offer this year on the Midland main line from London St Pancras to Luton, bedford, Wellingborough, Kettering, Market Harborough, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds

The Docklands light railway is to be extended across the River Thames to link with the National Rail network at Woolwich. But a main line rail link would have been better.

Leisure becomes a threat to essential rail link

A preserved railway has been named the Railway of the Year in a tourist guide.

Supermarkets are beginning to switch freight from road to rail.

High-speed rail services in Kent could in future be run by Danish State Railways.

A new light rail system should bring some relief to the polluted city of Houston, Texas.