Research Hub

EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS: Time for our industry’s leaders to rise to the challenge

SIR MICHAEL HOLDEN examines how progress has been allowed to stall, and offers the rail industry a 12-point action plan to improve its prospects

New trains… but often the same old problems

The entry into revenue-earning service of new rolling stock across the UK has been blighted by a series of problems. RICHARD CLINNICK reports

Between a rock and a wet place…

While work is under way on strengthening the sea wall at Dawlish, the biggest part of Network Rail’s resilience project is yet to come. ANDREW RODEN reports

Tripping points in industry’s failed appliance of compliance

Train operators have been granted dispensation to run non-compliant rolling stock. But could that situation have been avoided? RICHARD CLINNICK reports

COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: Is an OLR really the answer?

Northern has inherited problems that are beyond its control

COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: Devolution, not destruction

Protecting the ‘N’ in NR must be a priority for Williams

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The case for Okehampton reopening

JIM STEER examines the business and economic needs that must be considered and satisfied by an Exeter-Plymouth rail reopening skirting the north of Dartmoor

EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s railway vision

Shadow Transport Secretary ANDY McDONALD shares with CONRAD LANDIN his thoughts on how a renationalised railway would take shape

FROM THE ARCHIVES: MPs to quiz NR and operators on timetable meltdown

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Northern missed chance to flag timetable concerns