Innovations to improve Britain’s stations often meet stumbling blocks in the form of red tape. Peter Plisner investigates some of the ways train companies have been breaking through the regulations.
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Network Rail Class 150 to be withdrawn and disposed of
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Chiltern Railways applies to make DMU fleet exempt from passenger display system rules
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Pair of former DRS Class 37s return to main line duty
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Battery-electric trains the preferred option to replace Class 165s and 166s on GWR cross-country route
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Southeastern Javelin unit remains in stranded six weeks after going through end of siding
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Fleet
Ex-Great Western Railway HST power cars move to preserved railway pending export
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New open access operation planned between London Waterloo and Fawley branch
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ASLEF union balloting over dismissal of Hull Trains driver
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Nationalisation: “a dead-end argument”
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