Friends of the Rail Forum

It is surely the prospect of spending an entire day getting to a holiday destination rather than a few hours that has made flying the choice of travel for millions - to the clear detriment of the environment.

But a new scheme is being launched to encourage people to turn their backs on planes in favour of trains, for the sake of reducing their impact on climate change, by tackling that problem head on.

A growing number of firms have pledged to give their employees extra days off a year to go on holiday by train rather than flying there...