New Trains
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Features
Hitachi Rail's bold experiment with battery-electric bi-mode units
Hitachi Rail has been carrying out trials on a Class 802 aimed at advancing the use of battery-electric bi-mode units. Richard Wilcock finds out more.
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New centre to test trains, tracks and systems
Intensive prototype testing has been moving away from the main line network towards specialist test centres scattered across Europe, as Ben Jones discovers.
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Train review: Lumo’s no frills ‘803’
Open access operator Lumo competes with LNER and Avanti, as well as airlines, between Edinburgh and London. Its headline low fares and modern trains are proving a hit, but are the Class 803s any good? Pip Dunn finds out for himself.
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Suppliers’ uncertain wait for new trains
Challenges - and opportunities - ahead for Britain’s train builders, refurbishment specialists and their supply chains, as they await vital new orders.
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Deep thinking
RICHARD CLINNICK finds out how Bombardier’s bid for New Tube for London will bring global experience to a very British institution…
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A project at the heart of the nation
RICHARD CLINNICK finds out what’s under the aluminium skin of Bombardier’s new Crossrail trains
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Rise of the smart train
RICHARD CLINNICK finds out how Bombardier’s next generation of trains will reduce maintenance costs
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New trains set to transform the railway
Britain’s railways are benefiting from one of the biggest rolling stock investment programmes ever seen. RICHARD CLINNICK looks at the latest order books
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Marvellous Maintenance Technology
A guided tour of Network Rail's new Mobile Maintenance Trains, which aims to make essential maintenance work cheaper, more efficient and safer for track gangs
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Inside Vivarail’s D-Train
Vivarail’s project to convert former London Underground D-Stock trains into diesel electric multiple units (RAIL 771, 773) is dividing public opinion
Top Stories
“Catch the train and you’ve caught the plane”
STEFANIE BROWNE charts the progress of the Gatwick Express service since its inception 30 years ago
A valuable window into the railway’s future
InnoTrans might have been full of shiny new trains, but not much of what was on show was relevant to the UK, right? Wrong, argues TONY STREETER
Can ‘185s’ conquer the Pennines?
Armed with his ‘awkward luggage’ and a notepad, CHRIS GILSON (6ft 5in) rides between Hull and Manchester in the latest of RAIL’s exclusive train tests.
Links in the chain are coming together
RICHARD CLINNICK discusses progress on the £6 billion Thameslink scheme with FCC's JONATHAN BRIDGEWOOD
