Operations
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Features
Bradshaw’s Britain: Havant to Guildford
For his final foray onto the south of England’s rail network armed with Bradshaw’s 1863 Handbook, Stephen Roberts is on a section of the Portsmouth Direct Line.
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Features
Mystery Shopper RAIL review: South Wales
Our Mystery Shopper is in South Wales, visiting revitalised lines on a network that has new trains coming and a new Metro system on the horizon.
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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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Features
Keeping the wheels turning on Elizabeth line Class 345s
Philip Haigh visits Alstom’s Old Oak Common depot, to gain an insight into the work that goes to maintaining a modern train fleet.
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Features
New centre to test trains, tracks and systems
Intensive prototype testing has been moving away from the main line network towards specialist test centres scattered across Europe, as Ben Jones discovers.
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Insight
The latest blow to Portishead’s reopening hopes
After the new government’s axing of Restoring Your Railway funding, will trains ever run along the line to Portishead? Andrew Mourant reports.
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Features
FLIRT bi-mode trains help Greater Anglia to top performing operator
Ben Jones visits East Anglia to see how the Swiss-built Stadler bi-mode trains and the Derby-built ‘Aventras’ have helped GA in their first five years.
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Features
A rail network epic exploration: Wales to London via South Coast
Part two of Paul Bigland’s All-Line Rover trip takes him on trains battered by the elements… and teenage passengers
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Insight
Rail devolution: sidelined, delayed or arriving soon?
Transport for London has long wanted to take over more of the capital’s suburban rail network, but how would that fit in with central rail policy? By Tom Edwards
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One way to tackle recruitment difficulties breaks new ground
The new government is looking to recruit 100,000 people into the rail industry. One train maintenance company has taken matters into its own hands.
Top Stories
From poisoned chalice to Holy Grail?
RAIL magazine examines the troubled history of rail operations on the East Coast Main Line since privatisation in the mid-1990s
“I am forever in his debt”
PAUL PRENTICE reveals the extraordinary tale of how the actions of one Southern Railway employee saved a man’s life
The resurgent '60s'
RICHARD CLINNICK looks back at the history of the Class 60s
