Electrification
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Features
Railway 200 Then and Now: Electrification's tale of Volk and volts
Parallel's from the past in our present: Our first extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey Through Two Centuries of British Railway History 1825-2025.
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Features
Behind the scenes: GWR trials fast-charging battery technology
Joe Campbell joins the team conducting trials of fast-charge battery technology on the West Ealing to Greenford branch.
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Features
Hitachi Rail's bold experiment with battery-electric bi-mode units
Hitachi Rail has been carrying out trials on a Class 802 aimed at advancing the use of battery-electric bi-mode units. Richard Wilcock finds out more.
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Opinion
Opinion: The government must start to get electrification rolling…
A rolling rail electrification programme is crucial for economic growth, sustainability, and decarbonisation, says Caspar Lucas.
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Insight
As the wires go up the costs of electrification come down
With a new government, how can the case for electrification be made afresh? Money is tight but, unlike most infrastructure investment, there are quick wins.
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Features
NRA Innovation of the Year 2024: Rail Electrification Alliance
The winner of the Innovation of the Year award in the 2024 National Rail Awards was Rail Electrification Alliance (Static Frequency Converters).
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Features
NRA Infrastructure Achievement of the Year 2024: Keltbray and Network Rail
The Infrastructure Achievement of the Year award in the national Rail Awards went to Keltbray and Network Rail for the LTS Mk1 OLE Replacement.
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Features
TRU electrifies the Pennines route and fits ETCS
Due for completion in 2035, the TRU will cut journey times, improve reliability and increase capacity. Chris Howe reports.
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Features
Time for electrification: why UK rail needs a new approach
Successive governments have spurned opportunities to make the UK’s railways cleaner and more efficient by investing in a rolling programme electrification.
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Light Rail
Trams offer vital solution to UK’s decarbonisation challenge
UK Tram’s new chairman Steve Edwards discusses the role of light rail in a modern-day successful railway
Top Stories
Review: Should we salute Scotland’s magnificent Inter7?
In our third and final Mystery Shopper piece covering ScotRail, we head out on the InterCity network to see if older trains still offer quality.
Review: 170 (minutes) on a crowded Class 170
RAIL’s Mystery Shopper travels from Birmingham to Cambridge on a CrossCountry Turbostar.
Rail devolution… and integration
The English Devolution White Paper and the government’s rail reform consultation are together proposing a major shift of power from central to local government.
