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Hoo - rail victory
Published At: Fri 31 of Jan, 2020 19:53 GMT - (4957 Reads)Northern franchise
Published At: Fri 10 of Jan, 2020 14:37 GMT - (4443 Reads)
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has stated that he will take action on the Northern franchise, but will not decide until end January 2020 exactly what that action will be - either an Operator of Last Resort or a direct contract. Railfuture analyses the causes of Northern’s poor performance and recommends what action the Transport Secretary should take. Insufficient time was allowed between letting the franchise and the PRM compliance deadline for procurement, delivery and testing of new trains such as these class 195 units. Image by Geof Sheppard under CC by SA 4.0.
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Railfuture 2030 manifesto
Published At: Tue 07 of Jan, 2020 13:57 GMT - (5917 Reads)Rail 2019 year end report
Published At: Fri 27 of Dec, 2019 13:08 GMT - (4247 Reads)
In promoting a bigger and better railway, Railfuture issued a 10 point challenge to the rail industry and government for 2019 to rebuild public trust in its service delivery. Here is our end of year report on how well we think the rail industry performed as a whole in 2019. Did the rail industry rise to Railfuture’s challenge? Christmas is traditionally the time when the railway undertakes major remodelling projects such as at King's Cross throat – image Network Rail.
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High Speed 2 Review
Published At: Fri 13 of Dec, 2019 22:38 GMT - (7824 Reads)Decision time
Published At: Tue 03 of Dec, 2019 17:16 GMT - (3280 Reads)
The snap general election is with us as expected and we have to wait until afterwards to find out what the recommendations of the Williams and Oakervee reviews of franchising and HS2 will be – as amended to make them acceptable to the new government. Enter our competition to propose a new name for HS2 which will capture the public imagination. Image HS2 Ltd.
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Party manifestos for rail
Published At: Fri 29 of Nov, 2019 23:22 GMT - (4297 Reads)Stations of the future
Published At: Sun 24 of Nov, 2019 19:10 GMT - (2638 Reads)Building for future users
Published At: Sun 17 of Nov, 2019 11:33 GMT - (2615 Reads)South East Rail Strategy
Published At: Fri 08 of Nov, 2019 14:29 GMT - (3172 Reads)Railway rambles
Published At: Tue 08 of Oct, 2019 17:21 BST - (2648 Reads)Privatisation punch
Published At: Mon 23 of Sep, 2019 22:15 BST - (3424 Reads)Levenmouth on track
Published At: Fri 09 of Aug, 2019 12:40 BST - (5393 Reads)Britain back into rail
Published At: Thu 08 of Aug, 2019 16:40 BST - (2926 Reads)First step to Berwick
Published At: Thu 30 of May, 2019 18:17 BST - (4691 Reads)Rails back to Brierley Hill
Published At: Mon 13 of May, 2019 22:04 BST - (4773 Reads)Money for Portishead
Published At: Wed 17 of Apr, 2019 22:59 BST - (5949 Reads)Electric alternatives
Published At: Sun 07 of Apr, 2019 18:40 BST - (8418 Reads)Balkan bustitution
Published At: Thu 28 of Mar, 2019 20:31 GMT - (3753 Reads)
In the latest of our Go and Compare series, Ian Brown takes a bus from Zagreb to Ljubljana and compares it with the rail alternative, then travels from Ljubljana to Trieste by train and compares it with the bus alternative. The competition - the Flixbus on the properly signed stand on arrival at Ljubljana, going through to Florence arriving late the same evening.
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Welborne station campaign
Published At: Wed 20 of Mar, 2019 20:14 GMT - (4240 Reads)Railfuture’s campaigns, opinions and successes are often reported by the press and media, see Railfuture in the news.