Articles from the latest issue in digital format
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
PHILIP SHERRATT
Table-toppers improving
Reliability growth in New Train TIN-watch is slow, but there are more graduates on the horizon
ROGER FORD
Freight EMU operations poised for growth
RAIL OPERATIONS (UK) Ltd’s Orion subsidiary began rail freight services on 23 November, when the company’s first Wembley to Shieldmuir (Glasgow) run for Royal Mail was made.
TfW diesel Flirts may start on Rhymney line
First new Stadler train arrives in Cardiff
Rhodri Clark
Gosforth gets ready for new Metro fleet
The first phase of the rebuild of the Tyne and Wear Metro depot has been completed
New Year, New Network
Following the resumption of regular services, what difference will the Dartmoor line make to the community in Okehampton?
Vicki Pipe
Process delays £4m fleet sanding pilot
■ Salisbury highlights lack of urgency
■ Dual Variable Rate Sander offers adhesion-agnostic braking
■ Four months spent haggling over Class 323 fitment contract
■ Earlier ScotRail bid rejected
Reasons to be cheerful – part two
In the January 2009 issue I thought I would lighten the mood by listing the best things about the UK railway. Thirteen years on, it seems a good time to try that again
Ian Walmsley