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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
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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
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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
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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
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R892 - Build HS2 in full, says Review
I am told this Government contracting insanity turbocharges costs by one third…this would equate to £20bn on the full Y network.
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R875 - New trains… old problems
“With the dead hand of the Department looming over every decision, what chance does the industry have?”
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R874 - Responsibility… accountability
“Perhaps Williams is treading carefully so as not to scare the horses at the DfT and in Government”
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R873 - RDG proposals are a lifeline Government should seize
“A new way of delivering the railway cannot now be avoided… and a radical fare review must be part of it.”
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: R872 - Stakes could not be higher
"I wish Andrew Haines well. Government cannot succeed unless NR succeeds and the rest of the industry cannot succeed if Haines fails."
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