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DECEMBER 2005 ISSUE: CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT & LETTERS [Download]
'The pantomime season is nearly upon us, but for staff at Aslef's London headquarters it never really went away...'
Letters
- Taken leaf of our senses
- Fare evasion – a lost opportunity
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NEWS [Download]
News headlines
- Stagecoach launches £1 fare to fill empty seats
- GNER goes into the red after London terror attacks
- High-tech CCTV to be used on rail network
- Tube lines wins top communications award
- Flushed with success
- There's brass in muck
- Eurostar wins again
Business Briefs
- EWS considers stock market flotation
- Stagecoach on track
- A European marriage of convenience
- Arriva's Euro-search for graduates
- Go-Ahead's rail division 'recovering' after 7/7
- Rail profits boost for first as fuel costs soar
- Freightliner's Logico launches new service
News about people
Jon Shaw, Trudy Green, Michael Goy, David Maddison, Andrew McConnell, Karin Johansson, Graham Eccles, Ian Dobbs, Chris Ford, Nick Clarke...
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THE RAIL PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW: KEITH NORMAN (ASLEF) [Download]
The leader of the train drivers' union talks to Chris Randall about finances, fistcuffs, the Labour Party and what's really wrong with the UK's railways today
NEWS ANALYSIS: NICE IDEAS - BUT WHERE'S THE MONEY? [Download]
Network Rail's longterm strategy for the lines into Waterloo includes infrastructure projects that will take at least a decade to complete. In the meantime, passengers may have to pay more to travel on overcrowded trains. Paul Clifton reports
COMMENT: LEEDS SUPERTRAM IS DEAD – AND IT WAS PFI WOT DUNNIT [Download]
Alistair Darling has controversially scrapped Leeds Supertram saying it wouldn't deliver value for money. Alan Whitehouse argues that a radical rethink about the way tram and light rail schemes are funded is needed to make them more affordable
FEATURE: THE TRICKY ART OF CRYSTAL BALL-GAZING [Download]
Ten years ago Paul Clifton made a BBC documentary about how the railways might look in 2005. It was broadcast just before the first privatised franchise was awarded and before fragmentation created the need for a magazine like Rail Professional. How accurate were the predictions of the programme's expert contributors?
FEATURE: WHITEHALL SHADOW STALKS SCOTTISH EXPRESS [Download]
Observers in England gaze in envy at the millions of pounds being spent on rail infrastructure in Scotland. But is the Scottish rail scene really as rosy as it looks? Paul Coleman reports
FEATURE: TRANSPORT THAT'S PERSONAL [Download]
Could a peculiar looking bubble car, sometimes described as a driverless taxi, signal the beginning of the end for public transport as we know it? Peter Plisner looks at the potential of personal rapid transit and what it might mean for rail
OPEN LETTER: GET REAL, MR DARLING... [Download]
Last month the Government unveiled plans for a trial of airport-style security scanners at a number of rail and underground stations in London. Brian Cooke, chairman of the passenger watchdog London TravelWatch, urges the transport secretary Alistair Darling to abandon the idea
A VIEW FROM ACROSS THE POND [Download]
What do career-minded American women and the Bush administration have in common? The answer, it seems, is a disdain for US railways. Michael Weinman explains
FEATURE: TRAINING FOR THE FUTURE [Download]
The removal of British Rail also swept away much of the training expertise and infrastructure built up within the rail industry. Now, there's a growing acceptance that training needs to be improved; in this article Andrew Mourant looks at some examples of current training initiatives within the sector
LEGAL OPINION: RAILWAYS IN COURT [Download]
This year has seen a number of court cases involving the rail industry. Two of the most high-profile were the rejection of manslaughter charges against Balfour Beatty and Railtrack executives over the Hatfield crash, and the success of the Department for Transport and former transport secretary Stephen Byers in defeating a compensation claim brought by Railtrack private shareholders. What implications do these, and other recent judgments, have for the rail industry?
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INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY OPERATORS [Download]
New planning course launches
New IRO website
Plus members' news and IRO diary
RAIL BUSINESS AWARDS [Download]
The year of expansion
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES [Download]
A new and regular round-up of key products and services, with latest developments from PM professional, Enersy's, Nexus Training, LH Access Systems, Rail Professional Development, Speciality Fasteners, Faber Maunsell, Rowe Hankins, Sona Test, Survey Inspection, Northgate.
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RECRUITMENT [Download]
Jobs with Chiltern Railways, Jarvis, An Roinn Iompair, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Atkins, Department for Transport, and Resourcing Solutions
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