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Avanti West Coast looks to recovery
The West Coast operator is optimistic passengers will return, as its MD PHIL WHITTINGHAM and Operations Director NICK WESTCOTT tell PHILIP SHERRATT
PHILIP SHERRATT
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
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
Chasing Will o’the WISP
■ Consultation on 30-year plan
■ Public competition for GBR HQ
■ Legislation lagging privatisation timescale
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
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
Lumo ‘803s’ leap into the lead
New entrant to New Train TIN-watch goes straight to the top
ROGER FORD
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
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
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