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MARCH 2005 ISSUE: CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT & LETTERS [Download]
"Once the general election is out of the way - and assuming Labour is returned to power - all talk of grandiose schemes will
melt away like snow in May"
Letters
- Why Atoc supports the contents of the Railway Bill...
- Training schemes need to engage future generations...
- Wry smiles in the West Country over advertising campaign...
- Atoc's spin on fast-increasing passenger numbers hides the facts...
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NEWS [Download]
News headlines
- Darling offers hope for North-South link
- Mitchell ready for new DfT post
- Cuts in rail freight grants is 'a body blow'
- First adds colour to museum piece
- Crossrail moves a step closer
News analysis: It's big, very big - and it is clever
The most expensive (and the slowest) train in Britain
News analysis: Vernon Barker confounds the cynics
One year on, and TransPennine Express is feeling confident
Business news headlines
- Wi-Fi set fair for Brighton commuters
- Jarvis sells its interests in Tube lines
- Eurostar targets business travellers
- Franchise loss hits Go-Ahead
- Maillot quits at Eurotunnel
News about people
Andy Barr, Russ Cunningham, Steve
Bramall, Chris Querée, Kate Bonser, Micky Ball, Piotr Bej, Steve Butcher, David Godley, Malcolm Brown and Rob Warnes
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THE RAIL PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW: CHRIS BOLT [Download]
Chris Bolt's first eight months as chairman of the Office of Rail Regulation have been marked by quiet diplomacy. But when Chris Randall met him
last month, Bolt's mediating skills were being put to
the test by a long-running dispute over timetables
RAIL BUSINESS AWARDS: THE BEST OF 2004 [Download]
Details of all the winning and highly-commended entries in this year's prestigious event
FEATURE: THE PERILS OF PAMPERING [Download]
Retail giants, advertising agencies and internet companies are
tripping over each other to secure sales concessions at stations and on board trains. However, as Paul Coleman reports, train operators are learning that branding commuters as consumers can backfire
FEATURE: A VIEW FROM ACROSS THE POND [Download]
In the first of an occasional feature looking at rail developments in the United States, Michael R Weinman reflects on a fatal train crash in California with chilling similarities to two accidents in the UK, and examines progress - or the lack of it - on developing Crossrail-type links in America's major cities
LEGAL OPINION: Denton Wilde Sapte [Download]
As the re-franchising process moves up a gear, Stuart Cottis, Tammy Samuel and Naomi Horton explain what the victors and the vanquished have to do before the 'under new owners' sign can be displayed
COMMENT: LETTING THE TRAIN TAKE THE STRAIN [Download]
A recent train journey to the French Alps made car-loving
Andrew Goodman realise just what he had been missing.
Now he wants to let everyone in on the secret
COMMENT: SLAM DOOR SAVIOURS [Download]
Condemned as unsafe after the Clapham rail disaster nearly two
decades ago, the last remaining Mark One 'slam door' trains are finally due to be taken out of service later this year. But, as Paul Clifton reports, one train operator believes the 40-year-old relics could be the key to securing the future of a little-used branch line in Hampshire
COMMENT: NORTHERN FUDGE [Download]
When news leaked out that the Strategic Rail Authority was planning a review of rail services in the north of England - with the threat of fares rises and swingeing cuts to the timetable - the Government acted swiftly to dampen down the uproar. But the reprieve could
prove temporary, as Alan Whitehouse, who broke the original story, explains
COMMENT: IS BEECHING REALLY BACK? [Download]
Is the outlook for Britain's rural railways as bleak as Rail Professional columnist Alan Whitehouse suggests in this issue?
Dr Paul Salveson, general manager of the Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRP) and a long-time advocate of local services, takes a more optimistic view
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INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY OPERATORS [Download]
On 16 September 2003 the Prime Minister Tony Blair opened stage one of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the first new high-speed rail link to be opened in the UK in over a century. Andy Verrall looks at the success of the line and how it differs from conventional railways.
Plus members' news and IoRO diary
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RECRUITMENT [Download]
Jobs with TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS : RAIB: NETWORK RAIL : TRANSDEV : RESOURCING SOLUTIONS : SMITHS AEROSPACE : DALKIA RAIL : LONDON RAIL
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