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Operators face ongoing new train woes
By ROGER FORD
… ■ Alstom: Class 701 joins record lateness club ■ CAF: trams suffer weld … entries. These were: the South Western Railway Siemens Class 707; the Govia Thameslink Railway Siemens Class 700; the Great Western Railway Hitachi Class 800 …
The safety dance
By Ian Walmsley
The creation of Great British Railways is the opportunity to simplify the organisations called into existence by fragmentation, not least in the safety industry
Northern focuses on its customers
… a trial with Porterbrook of Dual Variable Rate Sanders on Class 323s. By next autumn Northern will have more data on …
Trackwatch - February 2022 issue
By Martyn Brailsford
A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground and Northern Ireland Railways infrastructure during November 2021; compiled by Martyn Brailsford of the Branch Line Society (www.branchline.uk).
New HS2 fleet - short on detail
By ROGER FORD
… and claimed to be hyper-reliable. But, as the Hitachi Class 395 EMUs for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (HS1) … train with the same weight as its 225km/h (140mph) Class 801 equivalent. An experienced rail vehicle designer … FHST a total of 610 seats. This is the same as the Hitachi Class 801/2, but that is for a nine-car set with kitchen and …
COP26 efforts rewarded at Golden Whistles
… statistics. Gold awards were presented for best in class, and silver awards for the biggest improvement over the …
Goodbye to the ‘Y’… for now?
By Dan Harvey
… than Leeds. On 7 February 2020, East Midlands Railway Class 222 No 222104 calls at the station with the 09.26 Corby …
Chiltern Railways - where it all began
… company to be known as Railtrack. Where it all began: Class 455 No 5709 at journey’s end after working the first … 3s on the Birmingham service in the background – while the Class 68 at the head of the latter train is an example of the …
Curzon Street transforms Birmingham
By Andy Roden
… the reference design to architecture that is truly world class. The elegant and (deceptively) simple form of the main …
Passenger traffic recovery - LNER shows the way
By ROGER FORD
… announced an at-seat present-wrapping service in standard class. This, of course, was intended to promote the facility …
Daydream believers
Does the emphasis on railway reform mean we may lose focus on short-term challenges?
Celebrating community achievement
By Vicki Pipe
Projects large and small featured at the annual Community Rail Awards in December
Table-toppers improving
By ROGER FORD
Reliability growth in New Train TIN-watch is slow, but there are more graduates on the horizon
Entries invited for Railway Innovation Awards 2022
HS2 CEO to address awards event on 1 July
ECML upgrade: DfT jumps the shark
By ROGER FORD
◾ IRP forecasts imply London to Edinburgh 3hr 35min timing
◾ Other timings equally improbable
◾ Benefits of 140mph overstated
◾ Final infrastructure upgrades completed by 2037