Time to signal change
ALAN WILLIAMS challenges current disruptive and increasingly unaffordable methods of resignalling and suggests how lesser-used lines, and particularly single-track lines, might be cost-effectively signalled in the future
ALAN WILLIAMS
New fleet for the DART
TONY MILES describes the new Alstom fleet ordered for commuter services in Dublin
Tony Miles
Curzon Street transforms Birmingham
High Speed 2’s station in central Birmingham is set to transform the city’s rail architecture while recognising its history. ANDY RODEN examines the plan for this major architectural statement on Britain’s new railway
Andy Roden
Commonwealth Ambition
MALCOLM HOLMES, Executive Director at West Midlands Rail Executive, and DENISE WETTON, Central Route Director at Network Rail, tell PHILIP SHERRATT how this summer’s Commonwealth Games will be a major milestone in the region’s post-Covid recovery
PHILIP SHERRATT
Gosforth gets ready for new Metro fleet
The first phase of the rebuild of the Tyne and Wear Metro depot has been completed
New Year, New Network
Following the resumption of regular services, what difference will the Dartmoor line make to the community in Okehampton?
Vicki Pipe
The Golden Spanners 2021: mixed fortunes for fleet reliability
With late deliveries and technical problems compounding the impact of the pandemic, Industry and Technology Editor ROGER FORD tries to extract information from the mixed data in a troubled year
ROGER FORD
Rail is green - but do passengers care?
Transport Focus has investigated attitudes towards sustainable transport. Chief Executive ANTHONY SMITH questions whether simply being ‘green’ will be enough to persuade people out of their cars
