Articles from the latest issue in digital format
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
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