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Episode 76

Virgin Trains comes out fighting for open access rights

Additional resources for this episode Richard Branson’s Virgin Trains fights hard to return to the West Coast Main Line with an appeal to the…

Episode 75

How late are YOUR trains? Train performance data shown at stations

How late are YOUR trains?! Train performance data to be displayed at stations to ‘rebuild trust’ – but will it really do that? Rail…

Episode 74

Flying Scotsman DOES have a main line future & HS2 damning PAC report

Additional resources for this episode Flying Scotsman DOES have a main line future – we speak to the National Railway Museum about plans for…

Episode 73

Railway structures: Has Network Rail got a grip?

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) threatens Network Rail with possible enforcement action under the Health & Safety at Work Act. Could there…

Episode 72

Has the government finally got something right?! Railways Bill Consultation analysis

Additional resources for this episode The government publishes ‘Delivering a railway fit for Britain’s future’. It’s the clearest indication yet of the government’s intentions…

Episode 71

Is a Virgin Trains comeback on the West Coast Main Line about to be crushed?

Additional resources for this episode Is a Virgin Trains comeback on the West Coast Main Line about to be crushed? And the Department for…

Episode 70

HS2’s incredible 4.5k tonne deck slide at Small Dean & semaphore signals in Shrewsbury

Additional resources for this episode An HS2 construction update this week with the completion of an incredible 4,500 tonne deck slide for a viaduct…

Episode 69

Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the speech of eternal ‘rubbish’

Has Chancellor Rachel Reeves given the economy the growth serum it needs, or is she on a planet looking increasingly like it’s far, far…

Episode 68

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

Additional Resources for this episode Forget trains, roads are the way forward – or that seems to be the message from the National Infrastructure…

Episode 67

Is Virgin Trains making a comeback with a £500m train order to challenge Eurostar?

Is Virgin Trains about to make a comeback in the UK with a £500m train order to operate services through the Channel Tunnel to…

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