Articles from the latest issue in digital format
Goodbye to the ‘Y’… for now?
The Integrated Rail Plan curtailed HS2’s eastern leg to Leeds at East Midlands Parkway. But as DAN HARVEY explains, it might not be the end of ambitions for the full high-speed network
Dan Harvey
New HS2 fleet - short on detail
■ Train weight and seating claims confused
■ UK gauge ETR1000 likely
■ Mystery pantograph highlighted
Operators face ongoing new train woes
■ Alstom: Class 701 joins record lateness club
■ CAF: trams suffer weld failures
■ Hitachi: low availability compounds cracking issues
■ Stadler: passenger’s favourite tries maintainers
Celebrating community achievement
Projects large and small featured at the annual Community Rail Awards in December
Vicki Pipe
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
Daydream believers
Does the emphasis on railway reform mean we may lose focus on short-term challenges?
The safety dance
The creation of Great British Railways is the opportunity to simplify the organisations called into existence by fragmentation, not least in the safety industry
Ian Walmsley
Passenger traffic recovery - LNER shows the way
■ 20 points clear of next franchised long-distance TOC
■ ECML open access operators also recovered strongly
■ Greater freedom of action with OLR?
New fleet for the DART
TONY MILES describes the new Alstom fleet ordered for commuter services in Dublin
Tony Miles
Branch line revolution or one-day wonder?
Our columnist questions the longevity of the Restoring your Railway initiative
ALAN WILLIAMS
