Welcome to the Railwatch WWW site

Railwatch is the quarterly magazine of Railfuture, which campaigns for more investment and a greater use of Britain's railways. You will find links to pages of the latest edition of Railwatch, other interesting railway-related World Wide Web sites, and the latest news from Railfuture.

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View the contents of the April 2009 issue of Railwatch , now in PDF format

Newsline at Railfuture site

For regularly updated news on railway campaigning click here for the Railfuture home page.

Rail snippets can be found at Martin Thorne and Jerry Alderson's Rail News Snippets page

Rail News, the independent rail industry's own newspaper, can be found at www.railnews.co.uk

For other news updates, please visit our Newstrack page

Go by rail

The best way to travel is nearly always by train. Many ideas and information about how to plan your journey, check out prices, go to Europe, can be found here

Help for disabled and elderly rail travellers

Nationwide information and advice service operated by Triscope is now available at 0345 585641.

Keeping track of fares

Railcards can cut your your fares bill.

Rail rovers are a good idea too. Rail rovers.

FareTrack can help you save money.

Back issues of Railwatch

There is a wealth of information in back numbers of Railwatch. For instance, if you read Rayner's Review, you will see that people have been warning the Government that privatisation would undermine the integrated approach to rail safety which was one of British Rail's biggest achievements. An archive of previous issues of the magazine is at backtrack

Links to other sites

Click here to see a list of railway-related WWW sites from around the world, plus links to other environmentally-friendly groups.

For more railway discussion

If you are interested in general discussion on railway topics, click here.

For more information, contact details and deadlines for the next issue of Railwatch, see our contacts page.

You can e-mail Railwatch editor Ray King or e-mail Deltic Computers with comments about the Railwatch Web pages