Electrification
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Light Rail
Trams offer vital solution to UK’s decarbonisation challenge
UK Tram’s new chairman Steve Edwards discusses the role of light rail in a modern-day successful railway
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Electrification
Why £1bn isn't enough for North Wales Main Line electrification
Mel Holley chronicles the halting progress of plans to electrify the North Wales coastal route.
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Electrification
Why electrification? The Network Rail perspective
Network Rail has a plan for the electrification of many routes across the UK, after a gap of a quarter of a century
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Electrification
Focus on collaboration - ABC
What do Alstom, Babcock and Costain bring to the National Electrification Programme? How do they collaborate? PAUL PRENTICE spells out ABC
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Electrification
High-wire act
COLIN PRESTON explains how SYSTRA is conquering the challenges faced in the £742 million Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street electrification project
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Electrification
Plugging the skills gap for generations
The National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) is leading the way in recruiting a new generation of railway engineers.
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Electrification
Electrification apprentices: engineers for the future
Network Rail’s apprenticeships develop the electrification engineers of the future, as PAUL PRENTICE discovers.
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Electrification
Firms take stock of the market
The gathering pace of electrification is attracting foreign train manufacturers to eye up the UK market - even if that means they must proceed with caution
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