First Group travel company is due to introduce a new fleet of US Greyhound coaches as part of a new passenger service between Southampton, Portsmouth and London. The service will launch from the 14th September. The services will operate every hour between London Victoria Station and the South Coast, with tickets costing as little as £1 per journey plus a booking fee. It is hoped that in 2010 more destinations will be added. The coaches boast free WI-FI, leather seating, complimentary newspapers and power sockets.

Network Rail has unveiled plans for a new £34bn high-speed railway link between London and Scotland. The High Speed link will help cut journey times between London, the Midlands, the North West and Glasgow. It is the second of its kind in the UK, after the construction of the Channel Tunnel link between Folkestone and London St Pancras. The train will travel up to speeds of 200mph and is expected to reduce journey times from London to Birmingham from one hour 22 minutes to just 46 minutes, and journey times to Scotland halved.