Campaign for Better Transport Rail Blog

High speed rail plan won't cut carbon

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:54 +0000

11 March: The Government has failed to prove its high speed rail plan would be green.

High speed rail plans out today

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:03:11 +0000

11 March: The Government is announcing plans for a high speed rail line today - we'll be looking at them closely.

Say no to ticket office cuts

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:55:56 +0000

9 March: South West Trains is planning to cut ticket office opening hours at 24 stations across London and the South East. Help us stop them.

Worthing group has a vision for transport

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:01:57 +0000

5 March: Transition Town Worthing has been getting passengers signed up to our Cut Train Fares campaign. The group has a vision for transport and it's getting people involved to make it happen.

A fair chance for trams

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:49:41 +0000

25 February: We've just had a tram campaign victory that’s worth crowing about.

North West stations are 'weakest link'

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:54:29 +0000

9 February: As we've often said, passengers suffer when stations don't have proper facilities - like good lighting, cycle parking, bus connections. A new report suggests people in the North West have the worst deal.

MPs stand up for train passengers

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:01:22 +0000

4 February: 59 MPs of all parties have called for rail fares to be reviewed. The MPs showed their support for our campaign by having their photo taken with Train, our mascot.

New Year, new train fares

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:32:10 +0000

2 January: Rail fares change today. I've written a comment is free article for the Guardian, explaining why the Government needs to bring down fares to make taking the train the easy option. Why not add a comment to let people know what you think? And if you haven't already, join the campaign.

Help fight unfair penalty fares

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:48:29 +0000

4 December: The Government wants to increase penalty fares from £20 to £50 - but it doesn't always make it easy for people to buy a ticket.

Fares to fall on East Coast line

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:25:05 +0000

2 December: Earlier this year, we met Lord Adonis at York station and asked him to cut train fares. It seems he was listening.