THE hunt for missing chef Claudia Lawrence has taken to the rails – with thousands of travellers across the region being brought into the search.

Posters featuring the 35-yearold, who disappeared more than two months ago, will go on display at stations and on trains to try and jog memories.

National Express is putting up large posters of Miss Lawrence at York, Darlington, Doncaster and Wakefield Westgate stations.

Grand Central Railways is also taking part, by distributing leaflets on all its trains, appealing for her safe return.

It is hoped the images of Miss Lawrence, originally from Malton, North Yorkshire, will be recognised by people who may have information that could help – or who may have seen her.

She was last seen near her home in Heworth Road, York, on March 18, but failed to turn up for her 6am shift at York University’s Goodricke College next day.

Despite a huge police operation and a £10,000 reward, there has been no trace of her since.

Detectives are now treating the case as suspected murder.

Close friend Martin Dales said: “It is to be hoped that the travelling public will search their memories over the past ten weeks, and any information they have should be given to the police.”

Next Tuesday, the case will feature on BBC TV’s Crimewatch programme for the second time, and the show will include reconstructions filmed in York last week.

Last week, police released new CCTV footage of two men near Miss Lawrence’s home the morning after she was last seen.

The images showed one man going to the back of her terrace before returning to the front of the property, at about 5.50am on March 19.

A second man could be seen for a few seconds walking along the opposite side of Heworth Road.

Police are also investigating sightings of two men seen outside the front of Miss Lawrence’s home on March 10; a man and woman seen on Melrosegate Bridge, in York, at about 5.35am on March 19; and a couple seen arguing near a car in University Road on the same morning.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 0845- 60-60-24-7 or Crimestoppers on 0800-555-111.