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New UK rail travel platform promises to plant a tree for every booking

A new train ticketing platform launching today is promising to plant a tree for every booking, which it hopes will appeal to passengers who care about climate change. Trainhugger says it will use 50p out of each £1.50 booking fee to pay for a young tree, in partnership with the Royal Forestry Society and Royal Scottish Forestry Society.

New six-year contract for Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways has committed to expanding trials converting diesel trains to diesel-battery hybrids.

North Shropshire by-election: Boris Johnson makes transport pledge during Oswestry visit

Boris Johnson has said improving Shropshire's transport infrastructure is central to his "levelling up" agenda during a visit to the county.

TfGM looks beyond transport for travel reduction win-wins

Working on a cross-sector basis beyond the traditional boundaries of the transport sector holds the potential to bring changes that help meet climate change and decarbonisation objectives, Stuart Blackadder, innovation strategy officer from Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) told the Summit.