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BOULBY SWITCH

Alex AyreChange of operator for potash contract: in early May...

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Okehampton work on track

Infrastructure News Walking the line: engineers walk...

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Southern considers future operations processes

 Roger Ford

Informed Sources ■ Looking beyond Traffic Management■...

 Roger Ford
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Are you sure about that, minister?

A BIT of an oops moment from Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris...

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WOODHEAD REBORN?

RADICAL RESHAPING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS THE PENNINES COULD...

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Grant: 2040 no-diesels target unachievable

Moving Wheels THE 2040 target to remove all diesel-only...

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Trackwatch

A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground...

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Heppenstall heads Midlands rail

KAREN HEPPENSTALL is Midlands Connect’s new Head of Rail. She...

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Progress on cross-sector collaboration project

IN THE January issue of Modern Railways we introduced readers...

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TUNNELLING UNDERWAY

High Speed 2 HS2 has reached a major construction milestone...

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Hitachi begins welding at Newton Aycliffe

TRAIN FLEET MAINTENANCE AND MANUFACTURE  Hitachi Rail...

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CONCERN OVER EUROSTAR FUTURE

INTO EUROPE  The future of Eurostar became a political...

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SWR GUARD DISPUTE ENDS WITH DEAL

THE LONG-RUNNING dispute between South Western Railway and the...

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BARKING BASE FOR BIFFA

Rail Freight THE EARLY hours of 6 May 2021 saw GB Railfreight’s...

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GBRf receives first Ecofrets

GB RAILFREIGHT (GBRf) has received the first Ecofret2 triple-container...

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Marsh Barton works start

CLEARANCE WORK has started on the site of Exeter’s £16 million...

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Forum

We welcome letters for ‘Forum’. Please send them, ideally...

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BUSES ON THE BRANCH LINE

WHEN NETWORK Rail completed a £3 million upgrade of the St Ives...

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Selling electrification

DAVID SHIRRES, lead author of the Why Rail Electrification? prospectus...

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ROG OFFERS ‘360s’

Double-loco configuration: two of the re-liveried Rail Adventure...

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FORMER NR CHAIRMAN DIES

RICHARD PARRY-JONES, Network Rail chairman from 2012 to 2015,...

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COLLINS RETIRES FROM TPE

TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS’S Interim Managing Director Liz Collins...

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World’s first VLR charger

Charging innovation: a crane lowers Furrer+Frey’s VLR charging...

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OVERHEAD TESTING SUCCESS

INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENT A new method of testing overhead...

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THROUGH SETTLE AND CARLISLE SERVICE UNDER CONSIDERATION

Cascaded Voyagers could free up CrossCountry HSTs for Leeds to...

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NR ADDRESSES DONCASTER CONSTRAINTS

MAJOR CAPACITY enhancements in the Doncaster area are set to...

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CONSTRUCTION BOOM

Rail Freight Group On a wet Tuesday night, just before...

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LARGE LOGO ‘69’

Mark V. PikeRebuilt ‘56’ on the move: on 4 May GB Railfreight...

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Yaw damper bracket problems hit CAF AND HITACHI

 Roger Ford

Informed Sources As I will describe later, the two manufacturers...

 Roger Ford
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Careful what you say

Called out: ScotRail’s razor sharp social media operator Angus...