21.   There are fast rail services to all major cities and cheap bus services to all parts of the UK.

22.   Many telephones were out of order, and rail services were disrupted by damage to the line at Deganwy.

23.   The new two-hourly rail service linking Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and York directly with Middlesbrough is to commence in May.

24.   PASSENGERS will boycott a new Teesside rail service because it does not stop at Eaglescliffe station, a Stockton councillor claims.

25.   THE start of the new transpennine rail service linking Middlesbrough with Manchester and Liverpool was hailed yesterday as good news by two Cleveland County Council chiefs.

26.   DARLINGTON Council is to join a region-wide group lobbying for better rail services to the NorthEast.

27.   Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services.

28.   DARLINGTON council is to join a regionwide group lobbying for better rail services to the North-East.

29.   BRITISH Rail is depriving Highland communities of a modern rail service by not investing in a Dornoch Firth crossing, according to the Scottish Green Party.

30.   The corporation, and outside bodies such as the MMC, suggested that the government should define more closely the level and quality of rail services to be provided.