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OCTOBER 2007 ISSUE: CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT, NEWS & LETTERS [Download]
RAIL PROFESSIONAL COMMENT: Feet on seats: A threat to the railways?
Each year passengers are attacked by other passengers, in robberies or outbreaks of drunken violence, and some even lose their lives as a result. So it is to be welcomed that some train operators are taking anti-social behaviour seriously so that passengers, and staff, can feel safer both at stations and on trains.
However, Merseyrail found its 'zero tolerance' policy being widely questioned by the media and legal profession when it prosecuted 19-year-old cub scout leader Kathleen Jennings, not for a random act of violence, fare evasion or even damage to property, but for putting her feet on a seat, even though she took her feet off the seat and apologised when the guard approached...
NEWS HEADLINES
- Forster steps down from FGW
- Grayrigg report
- Eurostar's maiden journey from Brussels to St Pancras breaks record
- Ufton Nervet inquest begins
- SWT defends cramped seating
- Royal train uses biofuels
- Freight strategy
- Crossrail
- Wear and tear to tracks
- Airdrie and Bathgate latest
LETTERS
- Dishing the dirt
- Ticket machines give me the runaround
BUSINESS NEWS & NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE [Download]
BUSINESS NEWS
- TfL breaks up Metronet contracts
- Network Rail cuts contractors
- Arriva eyes Laing
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE
Andrew Haines; Alison Forster; Tom Clift; Ian Yeowart; Tobyn Hughes; Dave Cockle; Steve Cotton; Jamie Grove; James Huggins; Rod Hoare;
Eddie Inglis; Andy Stringer...
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RAIL PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW: LINDSAY DURHAM, HEAD OF RAIL STRATEGY, FREIGHTLINER [Download]
A step-change in rail freight is expected to be announced this autumn,taking tens of thousands of lorry journeys a year off the roads. Freightliner's Lindsay Durham will be at the forefront. She's been speaking to Paul Clifton
NEWS ANALYSIS: DIRECT LINK FOR SHROPSHIRE [Download]
The privatised rail network has a new kid on the block. Wrexham & Shropshire has become the UK's third open access Toc. Like other open access applications, the route to success hasn't been easy, as Peter Plisner discovers
FEATURE: GROWING CAPACITY [Download]
Adrian Lyons explains how the industry can make better use of the capacity that is already available on the railways
FEATURE: PEAKS AND TROUGHS [Download]
With talk of an impending economic downturn, can the railway rely on the growth it depends on to make ends meet? Numbers of leisure travellers, in particular, could fall, says Alan Whitehouse
FEATURE: TRAINS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION [Download]
The biggest order for new trains in the world is up for grabs. The Intercity Express Programme will be the mainstay of Britain's railway for a generation, so competition for the £2bn order will be fierce. Paul Clifton looks at the runners and riders
FEATURE: TAKING STOCK [Download]
Refurbishing old trains is sometimes viewed as a soft option - wouldn't customers rather step inside brand new carriages? Katie Silvester finds out why refurbishing is such big business
VIEW FROM ACROSS THE POND: FREIGHT VS PASSENGER LINES [Download]
The US and UK freight industries could learn a thing or two from each other, says Michael R Weinman
LEGAL OPINION: KEEPING PROJECTS ON TRACK [Download]
Once both parties have signed on the dotted line and a new project is to commence, it should be all plain sailing, shouldn't it? Wrong, say Raichel Hopkinson and Zara Skelton. A lot can go wrong, so beware of the pitfalls...
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INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY OPERATORS [Download]
Spending £pound;425m at Reading
Tony Walker, Network Rail's project director, explained the concept and planning behind the £425m upgrade of Reading station at a talk for IRO South East members. Words by John Glover
Plus: Diary of events
HSBC RAIL BUSINESS AWARDS 2007 [Download]
Never more need for effective communications
The Railnews Internal Communications Excellence of the Year category first entered the arena in the 2005 Rail Business Awards and was an immediate success in terms of the number and the quality of entries. Railnews, which spans the industry as one of its most popular publications, has this year again agreed to sponsor the category.
Editorial director and former BR group public relations manager Alan Marshall explains why internal communications have never been so important in the industry as they are now
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES [Download]
A regular round-up of key resources.
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