Electrification
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Features
Hitachi Rail's bold experiment with battery-electric bi-mode units
Hitachi Rail has been carrying out trials on a Class 802 aimed at advancing the use of battery-electric bi-mode units. Richard Wilcock finds out more.
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Opinion
Opinion: The government must start to get electrification rolling…
A rolling rail electrification programme is crucial for economic growth, sustainability, and decarbonisation, says Caspar Lucas.
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Insight
As the wires go up the costs of electrification come down
With a new government, how can the case for electrification be made afresh? Money is tight but, unlike most infrastructure investment, there are quick wins.
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Features
NRA Innovation of the Year 2024: Rail Electrification Alliance
The winner of the Innovation of the Year award in the 2024 National Rail Awards was Rail Electrification Alliance (Static Frequency Converters).
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Features
NRA Infrastructure Achievement of the Year 2024: Keltbray and Network Rail
The Infrastructure Achievement of the Year award in the national Rail Awards went to Keltbray and Network Rail for the LTS Mk1 OLE Replacement.
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Features
TRU electrifies the Pennines route and fits ETCS
Due for completion in 2035, the TRU will cut journey times, improve reliability and increase capacity. Chris Howe reports.
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Features
Time for electrification: why UK rail needs a new approach
Successive governments have spurned opportunities to make the UK’s railways cleaner and more efficient by investing in a rolling programme 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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Around the UK on an all-line rover ticket and nearly 80 trains
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A rail network epic exploration: Wales to London via South Coast
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Can the Royal Mail trains keep on running?
After Royal Mail decided to stop using its own trains, Andy Comfort hears how the 30-year-old trains may still have plenty of life left in them.
