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Interview: “The railway is an essential public service” - Ben Plowden
As Ben Plowden takes over as Chief Executive Officer at the Campaign for Better Transport, Anthony Lambert talks with him about his rail reform priorities.
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Restoring your railway with tram-trains
There’s been much debate about the high cost of both heavy rail investment and new light rail lines. But how about combining the two?
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How to save a piece of history from the scrapyard
Preserving the past takes passion and perseverance. Chris Howe reports on the successful effort to find a home for a discarded Merseyrail Class 57 electric unit
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Alstom Derby’s days are looking brighter
Last year, Alstom’s Litchurch Lane train building factory almost shut down. One year on, Peter Plisner returns to the factory.
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HS2 tunnelling: a boring job - but exciting!
Out of sight in the London clay, engineers have built a five-mile tunnel for HS2. Tom Edwards goes underground.
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Review: the dreaded rail replacement buses
RAIL’s Mystery Shopper examines the pros and cons, the pitfalls and the plusses of taking a journey that sometimes involves more than just your intended train.
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Railway 200 Then and Now: from salvage to recycling
A look at how salvaging the railway‘s unwanted metal was essential to Britain’s war effort, and how the practice evolved into recycling.
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Welcome to the HS2 Bootcamp
A small project at Euston could lead to bigger things… and help to build a legacy. Tom Edwards reports.
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Holding out for a zero: why stations number platforms '0'
Andy Comfort finds out about a way to increase platform capacity without renumbering the whole station - and locates a few examples.
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Home front: Britain’s railway at war
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Richard Foster presents an overview of how the railway responded to the nation’s First and Second World Wartime needs.
Top Stories
Review: Should we salute Scotland’s magnificent Inter7?
In our third and final Mystery Shopper piece covering ScotRail, we head out on the InterCity network to see if older trains still offer quality.
Review: 170 (minutes) on a crowded Class 170
RAIL’s Mystery Shopper travels from Birmingham to Cambridge on a CrossCountry Turbostar.
Borders Railway moves £10 million closer to Carlisle
As funding is confirmed for a feasibility study into extending the Borders Railway to Carlisle, Andy Comfort explores the route beyond the Tweedbank buffers.
