Infrastructure - Page 2
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Features
NRA Small Station of the Year award 2024: Wemyss Bay (ScotRail)
Wemyss Bay (ScotRail) won the 2024 Small Station of the Year award in the National Rail Awards.
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Opinion
Comment: Do Labour's first few months signal a fresh start for rail?
Rail Review Editorial Board Chairman Sir Michael Holden assesses Labour's new track record in rail.
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Features
Interview: Network Rail's Liz Baldwin on a new approach to renewals
Network Rail’s Southern Region is taking a new approach to renewals. Southern Integrated Delivery Programme Director explains the process to Richard Wilcock.
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Features
The restoration of Camp Hill and its connections
Progress on three new stations in Birmingham and what it means for the wider Midlands Rail Hub ambitions.
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Features
Are Europe's railways ready for winter extremes?
Safety is the priority, but are we at risk of losing the year-round resilience of the railway? Ben Jones looks at how European railways handle extreme weather.
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Features
Interview: Jonathan Dunster on early retirement and rail's future
Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster has held the top job in three parts of the railway industry. David Clough explores the career of this redoubtable railwayman.
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Features
The changing role of our railway stations
Innovations to improve Britain’s stations often meet stumbling blocks in the form of red tape. Peter Plisner investigates.
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Features
How to grow off-peak leisure travel by rail
Non-commuter lines are experiencing an upswing in fortunes, but the UK lags behind mainland Europe when it comes to value for money and accessibility.
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Features
ETCS: Digital signalling switches to mains
Ben Jones discovers how a rolling programme of renewals that will transform how our trains are controlled.
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Features
TRU electrifies the Pennines route and fits ETCS
Due for completion in 2035, the TRU will cut journey times, improve reliability and increase capacity. Chris Howe reports.
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Features
Time for electrification: why UK rail needs a new approach
Successive governments have spurned opportunities to make the UK’s railways cleaner and more efficient by investing in a rolling programme electrification.
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Features
How to adapt the network to climate change
Network Rail’s Climate Change Task Force lead for Wales and Western Region, Julie Gregory, talks to Nick Brodrick about the challenges of adapting the network.
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Operations
Is NPR ready for the next level?
RICHARD WILCOCK examines the on-off history of Northern Powerhouse Rail, and asks whether the time is right (and what must happen) for the project to be advanced
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Features
RAIL Live: Top 20 innovations that will shape the future
Rail Live 2024 featured numerous innovative products - big and small - set to improve the railway. Chris Howe selects his top 20…
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Features
Plan B for the Teignmouth Sea Wall
Network Rail had planned to divert the railway along the Teignmouth Sea Wall, so what’s planned instead? Nick Brodrick reports in part 4 of our Dawlish series.
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Opinion
High costs… and consequences
"In my opinion driving a double-decker bus in London is a much tougher job than driving a train on the main line railway"
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Opinion
Confronting the crisis on the Great Western
Tom Edwards recalls the day in December that the Great Western hit the headlines for the wrong reasons, and asks how its failings can be rectified.
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Insight
The constant obstacles to maintaining infrastructure
Is what happened between Reading and Paddington symptomatic of wider problems coming soon to a railway near you?
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Features
West Coast Main Line special: the spine of the nation
Ben Jones explains why the West Coast Main Line has been Britain’s busiest and most important rail corridor for almost 200 years
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Features
Eastside story on West Midlands Metro
Chris Howe chronicles the latest progress with the Eastside extension in Birmingham
