Articles by Paul Clifton - Page 10
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Network
Concerns over rail service cuts becoming permanent
West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin has claimed that the pandemic is being used as a “smokescreen” to cut rail services in the North.
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Network
“Intolerable” service cuts under emergency COVID timetables
Train operators have further reduced rail services, in response to surging staff sickness levels due to COVID.
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Network
Salisbury Tunnel reopens after clean-up operation
Salisbury’s Fisherton Tunnel reopened on November 16, 16 days after a crash between two trains that injured 14 people
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Network
RSSB research exposes poor air quality on diesel trains
Air quality levels on some diesel trains are up to 13 times worse than standing beside a busy road in central London.
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Insight
Decarbonisation: where are the quick wins?
The Transport Decarbonisation Plan is full of positive zero-emission strategies, goals and deadlines. But what has to be done now, to make a start?
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Network
Southeastern loses franchise over “breach of trust”
Train operator Southeastern has lost its franchise after failing to declare more than £25 million of taxpayer funding, according to the Department for Transport
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Network
Weekday blockade indicates change in industry outlook
Network Rail is shifting a major engineering blockade to account for changing travel patterns since the pandemic.
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Network
Williams-Shapps: industry seeks certainty and action
The team charged with establishing the new Great British Railways is submitting advice to Government before the summer recess
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Network
Britain’s longest-serving railway worker retires
Sixty-eight years after he started working at London Waterloo station, the man thought to be Britain’s longest-serving railway worker has retired.
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Network
EXCLUSIVE: Rail industry pays a heavy price for productivity problems
Nearly half the money spent on rail infrastructure is used inefficiently, claims National Skills Academy for Rail (NSAR) Chief Executive Neil Robertson.