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JANUARY 2008 ISSUE: CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT, NEWS & LETTERS [Download]
RAIL PROFESSIONAL COMMENT: Where are our railways heading?
A much-favoured mantra of the Association of Train Operating Companies, leading rail industry figures, politicians and apparatchiks at the Department for Transport, is that Britain has the fastest growing railway in Europe...
NEWS HEADLINES
- National Express East Coast launches
- Robots could end lineside fire misery
- Thameslink move
- Freightliner orders carbon-cutting locos
- Resignalling is cheapest option to boosting capacity
- Youths jailed for driver attack
- Hi-tech solution to leaves on line
- Tube Lines’ quarterly results
- FTPE cuts fuel consumption
LETTERS
- Upstaged by a pushchair
- Small oversights spoil Eurostar experience
- Nipping a PPP urban myth in the bud
- Customer information should be better integrated
BUSINESS NEWS & NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE [Download]
BUSINESS NEWS
- HS1 to be split up and sold
- Shortlists revealed for Intercity Express Programme and station upgrades
- Stagecoach results
- Jarvis shares slump
- Network Rail profits increase
- Bombardier makes redundancies
- Atkins gets gauge clearance work
- EWS to increase freight through Channel Tunnel
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE
Mark Hopwood; John Curley; Mike Carroll; James Burt; Glenda Lamont; Richard Brown; Paul Brooks; Chris Austin; Ian Brown; Christopher Fildes; Howard Newby; Peter Ovenstone; Catherine Wilson; Adam Parker; Richard Molloy; Nick Roberts; Douglas McCormick; Andrew Livingston; Simon Scott; Ricard Anguera; Clare Jameson; Neil McCluskey; Dougie McDonald; Tim Bell; Andy
Cooper...
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COVER STORY: ALL CHANGE [Download]
In the first of a new series, Alan Whitehouse meets one of the new MDs who will be running trains in the north of England. Chris Gibb has just moved across from the now defunct Virgin Cross Country to Virgin West Coast
RAIL PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW: ANDY COOPER, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF ARRIVA CROSS COUNTRY [Download]
It was one of the biggest shocks of the recent re-franchise process. After successfully introducing a new fleet of Voyager trains, Virgin lost the contract to operate them. The victor, Arriva Trains, has promised improvements. Peter Plisner has been finding out more
NEWS ANALYSIS: FARES FAIR? [Download]
Rail fares are up again this month, to the outrage of passengers, unions, politicians, environmentalists and business leaders. Just about everyone is against the rises. Paul Clifton asks whether rail is failing to get its message across
FEATURE: FREIGHT RETURNS TO PORTSMOUTH [Download]
Freight trains are about to return to Portsmouth after an absence of 30 years. It has taken a 10-year campaign by one man to secure funding and support, as Paul Clifton explains
FEATURE: RINGING IN THE CHANGES [Download]
A new process is being brought in which will affect the acceptance of new rolling stock onto the network – and assess its compatibility with the infrastructure. Martin Watt and Matthew Hanslip Ward explain
FEATURE: CATERING FOR CARS [Download]
The Strategic Business Plan has not included plans for any of the anticipated 300m additional passengers to be able to drive to stations. Tony Duckenfield looks at the implications
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INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY OPERATORS [Download]
Change at the top
Chris Leah stepped down as a director and chairman at the end of December.Derek Holmes, previously deputy chairman takes over the top role. A Fellow of The Institution of Railway Operators and a career railwayman, Leah looks back on 38 years in the rail industry and seven years as a member of the institution. Words by Tony Laycock
Plus: dates for your diary
RAIL BUSINESS AWARDS: 10 YEARS OF THE RBA [Download]
This year marks a decade since the Rail Business Awards were first launched to reward and recognise excellence within the rail industry. Andrea Geeson looks back at the last decade
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES [Download]
A regular round-up of key resources.
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