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Modern Railways February 2022 issue: video podcast
A video preview of the February 2022 issue of Modern Railways
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
Chessington South freight revival
Friday 10 December 2021 saw the first train beyond Chessington South station to the still incomplete aggregates terminal for Cappagh subsidiary Express Concrete Ltd.
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
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