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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.
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HS2: paying for more than just a railway…
Why is HS2 ‘so expensive’, and is it being ‘gold-plated’? Mel Holley investigates.
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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.
