Articles by Conrad Landin
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Royal Mail ending rail services 'undermines' government's commitment to freight, DB Cargo CEO tells ministers
Andrea Rossi, DB Cargo's Chief Executive, wrote to Louise Haigh and Peter Hendy after Royal Mail ended its contract with the operator
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Hydrogen mooted as a route to net zero in Scotland’s Far North
The Far North and West Highland lines could be decarbonised through discontinuous electrification, RIA Scotland chair Campbell Braid tells SNP conference.
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Transport Committee Chair to investigate track access charges and HS2
The new chair of the Transport Select Committee wants to investigate restrictions on flying, rail freight track access charges and HS2.
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"Not too late to change course on public ownership"
It’s “not too late” for Louise Haigh to change course on public ownership and get “the best of both worlds,” says Rail Partners chief executive, Andy Bagnall.
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Features
How previous generations celebrated the first passenger rail journey
Momentum is gathering for next year’s ‘Railway 200’. Richard Foster looks at how previous anniversaries celebrated the railway’s birth.
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Holyrood support for Clyde Metro
The Clyde Metro project will be backed with public funding from the Scottish government, Scotland’s Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop has confirmed.
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Scotland to restore peak fares after year’s trial
Ministers announced that passenger numbers had not increased enough to make an all-day off-peak trial permanent.
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GBR ‘will create complication’ in Scotland, Hyslop warns
Integration of track and train in England “cannot be at the expense of Scotland going backward”, SNP Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslop has said.
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Rail unions call for removal of profit motive
Britain’s trade union movement has called on the Labour government to expand publicly-owned freight operations and end the “profiteering” of rolling stock ownership companies.
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Talks move train drivers' strike towards resolution
Both the Department for Transport and ASLEF hailed “constructive” talks in the long-running train drivers’ pay dispute.