March 2012: Contents
Feature headlines
- Rail Professional interview: Cath Bellamy
When Cath Proctor left Chiltern Railways in 2007, she disappeared from the railway world for a while. A year ago she popped up at Hull Trains with a new surname. Katie Silvester catches up with her
- Now for the bonus question...
So the Network Rail board has bowed to pressure to waive its bonuses – following the outcry over bankers’ bonuses and unfavourable press coverage about its own bonuses – and the six executives have donated the money to a safety fund instead (see page 6)…
- High speed number crunching
In the face of robust opposition to High Speed Two, the government has had to produce a wealth of statistics to justify going ahead with it. But, so far, the statistics seem to focus on the wrong elements of the project’s potential benefits, says Robert Wright
- Putting your best foot forward
Trackside workers can spend most of their shift on their feet, in all weathers. Yvette ashby, managing director of the Workwear and Corporate Clothing Show, looks at the footwear requirements for lineside staff
- Time and tide
Climate change could pose big problems for Network Rail, as water erodes trackbeds, embankments, bridges and tunnels. In Wales, coastal erosion is high on the agenda of its new route managing director, Mark Langman, as Andrew Mourant discovers
- On the fly
In pressing ahead with High Speed Two’s connectivity with Heathrow Airport, is the government’s rail team out of sync with its aviation team, which is looking at Talternatives to Heathrow? Paul Clifton investigates
- Tunnel vision
GB railfreight has had a busy couple of years. Its sale to Eurotunnel has seen it begin services to Spain for Tesco, while its domestic services have continued to grow, as Katie Silvester discovers
- Stopping thieves in their tracks
Each year, thefts of copper cabling cost the rail industry more than 16,000 hours in delays. James Perry explains how the Metal Theft (Prevention) Bill could help
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