So, why is the tube cleaner’s plight a feminist issue? Well, for a start most tube cleaners are women and Feminist Fightback feel that cleaning has been underpaid and devalued as a ‘women’s industry’, reports Alex Iossifidis

Cleaners and Feminist Fightback: Here one of the cleaner's rights activists is protest-cleaning the window of the TfL headquarters while below in the reflection through the glass commuters can be seen buzzing around the tube gates at St James Park. Taken on 28th June 2008 on the morning of the Tube cleaners' strike. The direct action asked TfL to "Clean up your act" and the protesters set to work cleaning the lobby while calling out the demands of the tube cleaners strike.

The Labour-led government has today revealed that its buyback of New Zealand’s rail system was influenced by plans to close regional rail services throughout the country, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today.

Cross-party support from MPs for Tube cleaners to be paid the London living wage

London, England - Barely six months after Britons were hit by a 15 percent rail fare increase at the start of the year, another round of train fare hike appears to be forthcoming.

David Drew, Labour MP for Stroud put down an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons earlier this month calling on First Great Western to retain and improve buffet car services. To date 35 MPs have signed the EDM - a kind of Parliamentary petition. You can read it below. Why not contact your MP to ask them to sign EDM 1723? You can contact your MP by clicking here.

Say No to FGW's pork pies!

BERLIN -- Germany's finance minister and Deutsche Bahn are locked in a dispute over financing the upkeep of the rail operator's track network after its planned partial privatisation in November, a newspaper has reported.

About 700 cleaners who work on the Tube have walked out in the first of a series of strikes to demand higher pay and better working conditions.

FRANKFURT -- The European Commission has criticised in a formal letter to the German government the new company structure of rail operator Deutsche Bahn AG. that is slated for privatisation later this year, Financial Times Deutschland reported.

The European Commission (EC) sent letters to 24 European Union member states, among them Bulgaria, urging them to start implementing properly the legislation of the first railway package, the press service of the EC said in a statement on June 26 2008.

THE COST-CUTTING removal of staff from railway stations by profit-hungry privateers is undermining safety for passengers and rail workers and must be reversed, the industry’s biggest union says today.

Ministers are being urged to switch planned investment at Heathrow Airport to new high speed rail lines.

The report says more than a third of flights from Heathrow are short-haul

FRANKFURT -- Deutsche Bahn AG.'s chief executive Hartmut Mehdorn said he does not oppose a foreign railway operator such as Russia's RZD or France's SNCF taking a stake in the company, which is slated for privatisation later this year.

INVESTMENT IN high-speed rail would make a controversial third runway at Heathrow unnecessary and provide an environmentally friendlier alternative to tens of thousands of short-haul flights, says a report published today by specialist transport union RMT.