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Back Issues
Explore the latest from Modern Railways Magazine
Celebrating community achievement
Projects large and small featured at the annual Community Rail Awards in December
Daydream believers
Does the emphasis on railway reform mean we may lose focus on short-term challenges?
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
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
Branch line revolution or one-day wonder?
Our columnist questions the longevity of the Restoring your Railway initiative
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
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
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
Table-toppers improving
Reliability growth in New Train TIN-watch is slow, but there are more graduates on the horizon
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