November 2011: Contents
Feature headlines
- Rail Professional interview: Mike Hodson
Mike Hodson, managing director of London Midland, retires next month. He tells Peter Plisner about the challenge of running the company and the successes he’s had since taking the top job
- Another new face arrives at the DfT
So England has another new transport secretary, the sixth since I began editing Rail Professional a little over five years ago…
- Boxing clever
Most of the remaining Victorian mechanical signal boxes are to go, under plans to bring signalling into just 14 centres. But, in some cases, it won’t be cost effective to replace them, so a few may survive. Robert Wright takes a closer look
- Timetabled to perfection
Punctual and popular, Switzerland’s railways are famous for their effi ciency. Katie Silvester finds out what makes the Swiss railways tick
- Price drop
Network Rail, Atoc and other industry partners have put together a plan that would see costs fall from 2014. Paul Clifton reports
- Emergency measures
There is currently no course available in the UK on emergency planning in transport. A new distance learning, postgraduate course at Wolverhampton University is about to plug the gap, as Katie Silvester explains
- Let the good times roll
With a three-year hiatus in rolling stock orders, controversy over the Thameslink contract and a move towards electrification, rolling stock policy has been big news over the last few years. Katie Silvester finds out what Angel Trains’ senior managers make of it all
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