Rail (UK) - 2020-08-26

• Carmont disaster
• Great railway bores
• Conwy Valley Line
• Charter facemasks
• Earthworks
• ‘Green’ tax change
• BTP County Lines
• HS2 timeline
• Comms in a crisis
• Isle of Wight trains
• RAIL fares expert Barry Doe looks at the cost of a rail journey across Europe compared with flying.
• Nigel Harris examines the causes and effects of the Carmont crash.
• Something to say? This is your platform.
• An answer to landslip detection?
• What‘s happening in your area?
• Railway safety.
• Travels through Burma.
• ‘Staycation Express’ special.
• Are you clued up?
• Passenger numbers.
• Shapps orders rapid review of flash flood resilience from NR
• Unions pay tribute to driver and guard and launch appeal to help families
• HST safety considerat­ions following previous accidents
• Mid-September before line reopens, says Network Rail
• The challenge of monitoring Victorian earthworks
• Calls for high-speed rail to play key decarbonis­ation role
• Stations investment boosts regenerati­on, says report
• Rail electrific­ation ripe for ‘green investment’
• BTP: 33 people fined for not wearing a face covering
• Memorandum signed over vision for the South East
• Samaritans reaches out to those affected by COVID
• Bi-modes offered to solve Waterloo-Exeter constraint­s
• Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery
• Rail Live 2020 cancelled… but it’s back in 2021
• ‘Full house’ of Shakespear­e Line stations adopted
• TBMs Florence and Cecilia begin their journey to the UK
• University of Birmingham bids to take over former high-speed college
• M42 overbridge installed in just two days
• Fenchurch Street expansion proposed to meet demand
• Transport for the North projects awaiting “the starting gun”
• Transport vital for growth in the North, roundtable told
• Importance of Rule Book stressed
• Six-week trial of Scottish timber train freight
• Rail fares: CBT calls for January fares freeze…
• EMR plans remain on course despite COVID effect
• ‘720’ delays prompt GA’s plan to o extend use of EMUs
• GWR takes delivery of first FLEX unit for training
• TPE ‘horses for courses’
• Soham station plan doesn’t consider the prospects for future traffic growth
• A promise to freeze fares would help the public to regain the railway habit
• The struggle to manage climate change
• Update on this year’s All-Line Rover prices

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