Policy - Page 4

In the previous issue of RailReview, rail leaders set out their priorities to SIR PETER HENDY CBE. Here, he replies exclusively about the challenges he faces

ANTHONY LAMBERT examines what the creation of a National Infrastructure Commission may mean for the rail industry

RICHARD CLINNICK analyses a Transport Scotland consultation on the prospects for the country’s rail freight industry

Greater Manchester’s new 25-year Transport Vision, which is now out for public consultation, and at current developments that are shaping the area’s future

PAUL PRENTICE looks at what the post-General Election political landscape has in store for the rail industr

On May 7, the country goes to the polls. PAUL PRENTICE asks the major parties what are their plans for the railway and its governance?

NIGEL HARRIS recalls an interview with Clare Short in 1996, in which the then Shadow Transport Secretary vowed to create a “publicly-owned, railway”

Transport Scotland's BILL REEVE tells ANTHONY LAMBERT how careful specification of ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper franchises paved way for Scottish progress

NIGEL HARRIS meets RDG Chairman MARTIN GRIFFITHS, to discuss his organisation’s role in developing the UK’s rail strategy

RICHARD CLINNICK catalogues the projects and schemes transforming rail services north of the border