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NOVEMBER 2009 ISSUE: CONTENTS
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EDITORIAL COMMENT, NEWS & LETTERS [Download]
RAIL PROFESSIONAL COMMENT: Safety’s final frontier
NEWS HEADLINES
- Theresa Villiers sets out the Conservatives’ rail agenda
- DfT responds to Select Committee report
- RMT’s redundancy fears
- Southampton tunnel closures revealed
- Stagecoach expresses interest in National Express
- Aslef’s level crossing concerns
- Investment bank gets political support
LETTERS
- Why can’t drivers open train doors?
- Jocks and Geordies
- Gatekeeper’s view
- Overcoming barriers
- Bradshaw’s unintended demotion
- It ain’t heavy
- BR is to blame
- Rail industry refused to back line reopening
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE [Download]
NEWS ABOUT PEOPLE
John Bodill; Raymond Johnstone; Kevin Beauchamp; Charles Riley; Mark Lang; Andy Furse; Haydn Abbott; Guy Strickett; Dan Youdale; Steve Neal; Simon Montague; Hans Vossloh; Kate Wakefield
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NEWS ANALYSIS: SIDE STEPPING THE BALLOT BOX [Download]
HS2 is a concept that all the parties back – in theory, anyway. It mustn’t become a victim of the next general election, says Paul Clifton
THE WRIGHT TRACK: GREEN SMOKE SCREEN [Download]
In the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit, Robert Wright re-examines rail’s environmental credentials – and it’s not all good news
RAIL PROFESSIONAL INTERVIEW [Download]
Chief railway inspector Ian Prosser tells Katie Silvester about the inspectorate’s priorities for improving safety on the network during the current control period
FEATURE: FAIL SAFE [Download]
RSSB’s Anson Jack talks to Phil Lattimore about the railway’s safety record and what is being done to reduce risks even more
FEATURE: CHILTERN’S EVERGREEN CHALLENGE [Download]
Peter Plisner looks at progress on Chiltern’s Evergreen project – the multiple investments in the network that Chiltern has agreed to make in exchange for its unusually long franchise
FEATURE: RICHARD BROWN CHANGES ROLE [Download]
Eurostar’s chief executive tells Paul Clifton why he is moving to the part-time role of non-executive chairman and what the future holds in store for the cross-channel operator
FEATURE: RAIL BUSINESS AWARDS [Download]
SSP’s Tony Keating explains why the company is sponsoring the awards for the seventh year running, while Railnews editor Sim Harris talks about the importance of internal communications in the industry
FEATURE: LEEDS UNITED [Download]
Leeds lost out on getting a tram network but the city, at last, looks to be getting some of the rail enhancements it so badly needs, as Andrew Mourant discovers
INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY OPERATORS [Download]
John Glover looks at the problems faced at the different types of level crossing. Plus: dates for your diary
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES [Download]
A round-up of key products and services
