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Gentlemen, please lift the seat
Train toilets are never pleasant places – this innovation might just make them better. Don’t read this over your breakfast, or if you think the innovation process works
Ian Walmsley
New HS2 Euston concept unveiled
Provision for oversite development in new look
James Abbott
Going underground: a trip on the Elizabeth Line
Editor Philip Sherratt enjoys a preview ride on London’s newest railway
Runners and riders reviewed
New Train TIN-watch promotion criteria amended as Lumo ‘803s’ graduate within three periods
ROGER FORD
From Platform to Parliament
After 20 years in the rail industry, CHRIS LODER was elected as MP for West Dorset in December 2019. He tells PHILIP SHERRATT how he believes the railway needs to seize the opportunity to change
Sleepers re-awake but the UK still dozes
Is Britain missing an opportunity amid the overnight train renaissance?
ALAN WILLIAMS
Discovering stories beyond the train window
Window Seater app offers a view of the outside world
Vicki Pipe
Ashington reopening draws nearer
JAMES ABBOTT investigates progess on a key Restoring your Railway project
Work together to embrace post-Covid change
The railway cannot duck the challenges it faces, says Network Rail's Tim Shoveller
Swan: Consider freight when planning TRU
Freight operations must be considered carefully when planning ahead for the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade (TRU), Tarmac’s Head of Rail Chris Swan has told Modern Railways.
Network Rail slims ahead of GBR
■ Last decade’s headcount growth reversed
■ Redundancies to follow VSS
■ More savings from GBR efficiencies
Croeso I Gymru!
Community Rail projects in Wales and the Borders are supporting the post-Covid rebuild
Vicki Pipe
Navigating stormy waters
Does the Integrated Rail Plan provide more opportunities than first thought?
Avanti West Coast looks to recovery
The West Coast operator is optimistic passengers will return, as its MD PHIL WHITTINGHAM and Operations Director NICK WESTCOTT tell PHILIP SHERRATT
PHILIP SHERRATT
Operators facing revenue-cost gap
■ Omicron reversed ridership revival
■ Treasury sustains revenue support
■ Costs continued to increase through 2020-21
Trans-Pennine troubles
Our columnist says future plans for routes across the North of England are inadequate
ALAN WILLIAMS
Turbostar phone home
Buy a new train these days and you get more remote condition data than you can shake a memory stick at. Cross Country’s Turbostars are getting down (loaded) with the kids
Ian Walmsley
Chasing Will o’the WISP
■ Consultation on 30-year plan
■ Public competition for GBR HQ
■ Legislation lagging privatisation timescale
Trackwatch - March 2022 issue
A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground and Northern Ireland Railways infrastructure during December 2021
Martyn Brailsford
Alstom builds for the future
Alstom’s UK and Ireland Managing Director NICK CROSSFIELD talks to PHILIP SHERRATT about developments since the company’s acquisition of Bombardier
PHILIP SHERRATT
Lumo ‘803s’ leap into the lead
New entrant to New Train TIN-watch goes straight to the top
ROGER FORD
Keeping the Premier line up to scratch
West Coast South Route Director JAMES DEAN explains to JAMES ABBOTT how he envisages the landscape unfolding after Covid
James Abbott
Preparing the WCML for HS2
Major programmes at Euston, Crewe and elsewhere are getting under way, as DAVE PENNEY, Network Rail’s Passenger Director for the North West & Central Region, tells PHILIP SHERRATT and ANDY RODEN
PHILIP SHERRATT
Electrification deception
Discontinuous electrification is often suggested to reduce the cost of electrification – but only by people who know nothing about electrification
Ian Walmsley
800 Series – Hitachi’s remedial mods break cover
■ Substantial yaw damper arm mountings dwarf similar trains
■ Machined castings include bodyside stiffening
■ Alternative solutions reported on trial train