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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: Is an OLR really the answer?
Northern has inherited problems that are beyond its control
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COMMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES: Devolution, not destruction
Protecting the ‘N’ in NR must be a priority for Williams
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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
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EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s railway vision
Shadow Transport Secretary ANDY McDONALD shares with CONRAD LANDIN his thoughts on how a renationalised railway would take shape
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