Rail (UK) - 2020-12-16

• Neil Robert­son
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• Nigel Har­ris
• Barry Doe
• Do we need HS2?
• Com­ment
• Rolling back Beech­ing
• Class 720s in ser­vice
• Sus­tain­abil­ity
• Rail worker dies
• Royal Train UK tour
• Chiltern Rail­ways
• Class 37s turn 60
• Christ­mas travel
• North­ern Pac­ers
• En­hance­ments cut
• Her­itage awards
• Fare Dealer
• Open Ac­cess
• Philip Haigh
• Chris­tian Wol­mar
• Mod­ern Images
• Stop & Ex­am­ine
• Anal­y­sis
• Crossword
• In­sider
• NR chair­man to act as Christ­mas travel tsar
• IN­DUS­TRY IN­SIDER
• Other changes
• Changes at KX
• Ad­min fees waived
• Re­gional news
• OPEN AC­CESS
• Hull Trains
• Oke­hamp­ton-Tav­i­s­tock
• Al­stom/Bom­bardier
• Bak­er­loo Line
• HS2 eastern leg
• Cross­rail
• £1bn cut from Net­work Rail in­fras­truc­ture bud­get
• Peak days for travel
• Net­work Rail’s big Christ­mas projects:
• Far­ring­don the first com­pleted sta­tion in Cross­rail’s cen­tral sec­tion
• NR to plant thou­sands of trees
• Roy­als take UK tour on Royal Train to thank key work­ers
• Near-misses lead to NR warn­ing
• Wood se­cures TfL con­tract
• £29m fund­ing for Stoke and Long­ton
• North­ern rail lead­ers dis­cuss phase-out of diesel
• ‘Tram­bas­sadors’ to aid pas­sen­gers
• Punc­tu­al­ity and re­li­a­bil­ity im­proves dur­ing pan­demic
• Ex-train driver Mann will now steer SWR’s course
• ORR praises Net­work Rail’s re­sponse to pan­demic
• Bro­ken fas­ten­ings caused de­rail­ment
• £9.8m Har­ro­gate up­grade com­plete
• AWC re­moves peak-time fares
• Fif­teen more Beech­ing projects re­ceive share of £500m fund­ing
• “Ro­bust case” for Faw­ley branch line re­open­ing
• Bill Free, Rail Direc­tor at the Civil En­gi­neer­ing Con­trac­tors As­so­ci­a­tion
• First EMUs ar­rive at Ket­ter­ing un­der own power
• RAIB: per­sonal is­sues dis­tracted driver of de­railed freight train
• Min­is­ter plans fur­ther ac­tion to pre­vent sui­cides
• Founder of Ivan­hoe Line cam­paign dies
• NR Real Liv­ing Wage-ac­cred­ited
• Shapps safe­guards route for Bak­er­loo Line ex­ten­sion
• ORR’s in­dus­try fund­ing fig­ures re­veal early ef­fects of COVID
• Water­loo re­tains busiest sta­tion crown
• The im­pact of COVID
• Coven­try’s VLR project pro­gresses
• GTR com­pletes Academy project
• Site ex­ca­vated for ar­rival of Tun­nel Bor­ing Ma­chine
• Scot­land set to snub John­son’s Union Con­nec­tiv­ity Re­view…
• Bold plans for a high-speed re­think
• …in­quiry into Welsh rail in­fras­truc­ture
• Rail must build back con­fi­dence
• Trans­port Fo­cus: “Sell tick­ets for a pound if needed”
• News In Brief
• Rail Aid raises more than half a mil­lion pounds for Rail­way Chil­dren
• Gov­ern­ment urged to back HSR fa­cil­ity
• D’Orsi to be­come BTP’s new chief
• Re­gional News
• The colour purple marks World Dis­abil­ity Day at sta­tions
• News In Brief
• LO ‘710s’ pre­vail at Liver­pool Street
• Lat­est Freight­liner ‘86/6’ in stor­age
• Class 720 sta­tus: De­cem­ber 1
• First of the Heathrow Ex­press Class 332s is scrapped
• LO’s pi­o­neer ‘315’ taken for scrap
• ‘91s’ main­te­nance at Neville Hill
• More Class 196/1s ar­rive for WMT
• Eastern Mk 2s at Yar­mouth
• Trans­port for Wales com­mends
• HST power cars leave Long Marston
• The new-build trains
• Penul­ti­mate In­ter7City High Speed Train ar­rives in Scot­land
• SWR Class 701s sent to Work­sop
• For­mer EMR HST set dis­man­tled
• Stored ELR Mk 2s ar­rive at Carn­forth
• In­dus­try must act fast to im­ple­ment cru­cial changes and win back pas­sen­gers
• Wag­ing war on graf­fiti
• Isle of Wight re­open­ings
• Worst way to run a rail­way
• HS2: east ver­sus west
• High praise for Ni­cola
• Hy­dro­gen-pow­ered myth
• Pas­sen­gers should be re­funded for ticket pur­chases
• Sup­port the Western link
• Rev­enue pro­tec­tion
• Heathrow links
• Merseyrail sets its sights on net­work ex­pan­sion
• About the author
• Eus­ton: why 11 plat­forms are es­sen­tial
• NRA Judges’ com­ments
• Sus­tain­abil­ity as a Key Pri­or­ity
• The Mid­land Main Line Up­grade
• About the author
• About the author
• Class 37 ex­ports
• Class 37s since pri­vati­sa­tion
• About the author
• Avanti West Coast makes Fri­days off-peak
• THE LON­DON UN­DER­GROUND OP­ER­A­TIONAL EN­HANCE­MENT AWARD: STIR­LING
• THE NRHA BEST EN­TRY FOR 2020: NORTHAMPTO­N EN­GINE SHED
• THE ARCH COM­PANY AWARD FOR UR­BAN HER­ITAGE: BER­WICK-UPON-TWEED
• THE NET­WORK RAIL COM­MU­NITY AWARD: GOOSTREY
• THE BAM NUTTALL PART­NER­SHIP AWARD: HARLOW TOWN
• THE SOUTH EASTERN COM­MER­CIAL RESTORA­TION AWARD: CARDIFF BAY
• THE NRHA CRAFT SKILLS AWARD: AP­PLEBY NORTH SIG­NAL BOX
• THE CHAIR­MAN’S SPE­CIAL AWARD: DUBLIN PEARSE
• THE COSTAIN STRUC­TURES AWARD: MANCH­ESTER GREAT DUCIE STREET BRIDGES
• THE HENDY & PENDLE TRUST VOL­UN­TEERS AWARD: Y GWEITHDY, MINFFORDD
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• Me­chan­i­cal mar­vels
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• Mark Thurston
• Crossword
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