Articles by RAIL magazine - Page 104
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Network
Study claims privatisation cost more than BR - but now outperforms it
Privatised passenger railway could have cost £51 billion more to operate than if British Rail had remained in state hands, a new study suggests.
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Network
Underground Mail Rail opens to the public on July 28
Mail Rail is to open to the public on July 28 as part of the Postal Museum.
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Fleet
More Class 387s as GWR steps up electrics to Didcot
GWR's electric fleet will increase to 88 vehicles (22 trains) in early July.
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Fleet
Swanage services resume after 45 years
Timetabled passenger trains run between Swanage and Wareham for first time since January 1972.
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RAIL Features
Thameslink's road to fruition
When Thameslink opens, it will mark the completion of one of the biggest rail projects in years. Programme Director SIMON BLANCHFLOWER talks to PHILIP HAIGH
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RAIL Features
Sheffield’s tram-train inches ever closer
Trains delivered from Spain, masts and wires being erected, and services are planned to run in 2018. TOM INGALL reports on the UK’s first tram-train scheme
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Network
National Rail Conference update
Jackie Brock-Doyle OBE, will explain to the National Rail Conference why the lessons from the decade-long ‘London 2012’ story can apply to any industry.
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Network
National Rail Conference 2017
Gold Sponsor Profile - Colas Rail is the railway division of construction giant Colas, and one of the world’s leading providers of rail infrastructure services
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Network
National Rail Conference 2017
This year’s National Rail Conference on June 15 welcomes the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) as one of its gold sponsors.
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Reference
Nationalisation: “a dead-end argument”
Former train operator and top Railtrack/Network Rail executive MICHAEL HOLDEN explains why he believes a fully public railway won’t work