Episode 68

Forget trains, roads are the way forward! Wait… what?!

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Forget trains, roads are the way forward – or that seems to be the message from the National Infrastructure Commission’s Chairman Sir John Armitt CBE at a recent Transport Select Committee session.

… Not helped by news reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering scaling back rail spending. Big time.

And we starting investigating what’s going on with planned upgrades on the West Coast Main Line and the Trilink project.

In this episode:

00:00 Intro
00:35 Sir John Armitt at the Transport Select Committee
19:15 Rachel Reeves news reports
25:00 West Coast Main Line upgrades
32:47 Rail Partners, Andy Bagnall interview clip
35:23 RMT’s Mick Lynch to retire
39:41 Thanks to Super Thanks and Members
40:53 Railway News Round-Up
40:55 Bridge strike technology
42:12 A303 tunnel alternatives
43:52 Northern looking for 450 new trains
44:50 RAIB report into Stratford fatality
47:32 Contactless ticketing roll-out in the South East
48:07 First Rail open access report
50:19 The Quiz
53:18 Southern engineer has art sent to the moon