Interviews
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Features
Interview: 2020 review author Sir Douglas Oakervee on HS2's future
With the eastern and northern legs of HS2 cancelled since the Oakervee Review, its author talks to Peter Pilsner about what happens next for HS2.
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Insight
How can freight be a major part of rail’s future?
Great British Railways will need to focus on nationalised passenger services. Freight could lose out. Heads of the two largest companies talk to Paul Clifton.
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Features
Ian Prosser interview: “A high-performing railway is a safe railway”
Recently retired HM Chief Inspector of Railways Ian Prosser discusses the approach to railway safety and the role of Great British Railways with Tony Streeter.
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Features
Interview: Jonathan Dunster on early retirement and rail's future
Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster has held the top job in three parts of the railway industry. David Clough explores the career of this redoubtable railwayman.
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Insight
Behind the mask…Ellie Burrows
Paul Clifton fires the questions at Network Rail’s Managing Director, Southern Region, who is addicted to fizzy drink…
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Interviews
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Greater connectivity to boost productivity
TPE Managing Director LEO GOODWIN tells PAUL STEPHEN how a franchise policy of new trains and reduction in overcrowding will offer greater opportunities
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Training
Four years in the firing line…
Departing Network Rail Chief Executive MARK CARNE talks to NIGEL HARRIS about the legacy he leaves behind after more than four and a half years at the helm
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Interviews
Hynes means business
Northern Managing Director ALEX HYNES tells RICHARD CLINNICK how he intends to push through the operator’s ambitious plans for growth
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Interviews
Crossrail is engineering change
PAUL STEPHEN discovers how Crossrail is challenging gender stereotypes and nurturing the next generation of railway engineers
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Interviews
Hendy means business at Network Rail
Extract from RAIL’s business title RailReview (issue Q4-2015), where NR Chairman SIR PETER HENDY CBE agreed to an exclusive interview with NIGEL HARRIS
Top Stories
A railway with “people at its heart”
Andy Comfort discovers how volunteers are working with a train operator to promote and improve a Yorkshire line.
Project Brunel: assessing Network Rail's project to stabilise Great Western Main Line performance
Network Rail’s recovery programme to stabilise performance between Reading and London Paddington has reached half time. Paul Clifton joins the project leaders.
Wrexham and Shropshire open access managers explain their vision
The Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway could be on the verge of approval for its service to London Euston. Peter Plisner talks to those behind the plans.