- Conrad Landin
Articles by Conrad Landin
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News
"Not good financial management” - Scottish transport leader slams funding regime
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport Chief Executive makes plea for better planning.
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News
Scottish Labour vows to end peak fares despite trial not leading to sufficient demand increase
Pledge made to axe peak fares "for good" if it wins the next Scottish election.
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Insight
Scotland’s radical peak fares pilot: over and out?
The Scottish government has called time on its pilot scheme to abolish peak rail fares, but the calls for making public transport more accessible grow.
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News
Royal Mail ending rail services 'undermines' government's commitment to freight, DB Cargo CEO tells ministers
Andrea Rossi, DB Cargo's Chief Executive, wrote to Louise Haigh and Peter Hendy after Royal Mail ended its contract with the operator
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News
Hydrogen mooted as a route to net zero in Scotland’s Far North
The Far North and West Highland lines could be decarbonised through discontinuous electrification, RIA Scotland chair Campbell Braid tells SNP conference.
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News
Transport Committee Chair to investigate track access charges and HS2
The new chair of the Transport Select Committee wants to investigate restrictions on flying, rail freight track access charges and HS2.
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News
"Not too late to change course on public ownership"
It’s “not too late” for Louise Haigh to change course on public ownership and get “the best of both worlds,” says Rail Partners chief executive, Andy Bagnall.
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Features
How previous generations celebrated the first passenger rail journey
Momentum is gathering for next year’s ‘Railway 200’. Richard Foster looks at how previous anniversaries celebrated the railway’s birth.
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News
Holyrood support for Clyde Metro
The Clyde Metro project will be backed with public funding from the Scottish government, Scotland’s Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop has confirmed.
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News
Scotland to restore peak fares after year’s trial
Ministers announced that passenger numbers had not increased enough to make an all-day off-peak trial permanent.
