Informed Sources

With Roger Ford

ALTERNATIVE TRACTION: THE BIG GUNS OPEN UP

To date, alternative traction – batteries, fuel cells, steam turbines, genetically modified hamster wheels...

Social distancing impacts depots

The Covid crisis may not help new train reliability growth...

Who runs the railway 2020?

Two-thirds of TOCs run by railway lifers...

‘Informed Sources’ Laws 2020

Here’s your handy guide, plus some background...

Delay recovery impressive

Although new train reliability is still lagging behind...

MARKET STRESS-TESTING ROLLING STOCK LEASING

■ ROSCOs shut out by new funding sources...

RAIL REPLACEMENT COACHES

RDG's inconvenient truths...

INFORMED SOURCES: END OF TERM REVIEW

New Train TIN-watch assesses reliability over the last 12 months...

INFORMED SOURCES: SAFETY CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS - ANOTHER WARNING

◼ Mandated protocols ignored ◼ Informal conversation leads to miunderstanding...

INFORMED SOURCES: RAIL REPLACEMENT COACHES EXEMPTION EXTENDED

◼ PSVAR exemption to end of 2020 ◼ RDG ‘pathway to compliance’ lacks ambition...