This week Action for Rail publishes a new report looking at what impact the proposals to cut 14,000 jobs on stations and trains will have on disabled and older passengers. What does the future of railway staffing mean for disabled…

There was a fantastic turn out by Action for Rail campaigners across the UK today. Braving freezing conditions, we had teams out from Devon to Scotland and most parts in between. And as usual, the response from passengers has been…

Yesterday’s announcement of more franchising and the privatisation of East Coast Main Line came as little surprise from a government with a strong track record in faith based economics, fundamentalist zeal for privatisation and disdain for anything approaching evidence-based policy making.…

Train companies accused of resurrecting the ghost of Beeching  Rail campaigners will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Beeching Report today (Wednesday) by holding protests at over 35 stations throughout the UK against planned new cuts to services and staff.…

On the 50th anniversary of the Beeching Report, Action for Rail will be out and about at over 70 railway stations around the UK tomorrow (March 27th) protesting against proposals to place up to 20,000 jobs at risk across the…

Today’s announcement that East Coast Main Line is being handed back to private train companies is the clearest indication you could find that this government’s policy on the railways is determined by its own ideological zeal for privatisation at all…

At the end of last month, we blogged about some revealing figures between the lines of the latest Passenger Focus survey which called into question some of the claims made by ATOC and others that rail privatisation has led to…

An oft repeated argument from advocates of privatised rail, like our friends at the Association of Train Operating Companies, is that privatised rail has delivered record levels of passenger satisfaction. So the publication by Passenger Focus of the Autumn 2012…

As people prepare for the first day back to work, rail campaigners are today warning that commuters face yet another year of inflation-busting fare increases and service cuts. Train fares will increase by 3.9 per cent, on average, from today…

Transport writer and broadcaster Christian Wolmar has delivered a stinging verdict on the West Coast franchise shambles. Its an excellent piece and well worth reading in full here But his concluding paragraph needs quoting in full: It is time to…