Index: Vol. 72 – January – December 2015
Albania:
Tirana reconnected to the rail network
7/81
Austria:
LTE to Rhenus / GKB sells stake in
Vienna / Bombardier beats Siemens to supply
Westbahn / More KISS EMUs for
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Supplements in an issue are shown by italic text: e.g. Supp.8/10 indicates page 10 of the
supplement in the August issue.
An asterisk * denotes a major feature article.
Belgium:
SNCB Logistics part privatised
Traxx changes likely / Benelux
Airlines & Airports:
Class 319s in service / ‘Northern Electrics’
* Crossrail in transition: The journey from tunnel to portal
Gatwick Express / Class 387/2s Electrostars for
Gatwick / Oyster and contactless Pay as you go to
Gatwick redevelopment presses on Heathrow / Jacobs designing Western Rail Access to
* Heathrow / Rail hub for
Heathrow / Rail to support access to
Helsinki airport connected to rail network
HS2: A very busy railway
Independently Powered EMUs to Bedwyn?
Investment: Brave new world (Railtalk)
Liverpool – Manchester Airport: Northern Electrics progress
London Luton Airport / Better rail links for
* London Overground / Growth for
* London’s airport rail links
Manchester Airport / ATW wins
Manchester Victoria / Electrics welcomed to
* Newcastle / Transport for
Oslo Airport service / New trains for
Ostrava airport line opens
* Rolling stock reshuffle driving May timetable amendments
Rolling stock reshuffle in the north
St Petersburg to get airport link in time for World Cup?
Sofia Airport / Metro expansion to
ticketing inconsistencies / Conference highlights rail
* Timetable change December 2015: Thameslink transition
* Toronto: Canadian connections
TransPennine and Northern ITTs delayed
Windermere wires funding
4/15
12/68
1/10
12/11
8/17
5/92
1/63
8/16
9/82
12/57
7/13, 9/44
2/6
6/16, 7/47
Supp.8/22
6/56, 7/46, 9/44
1/58
12/13
7/18
1/38, 2/43, 3/46
6/85
7/81, 8/46
5/24
2/10, 3/49
2/85
4/85
2/85
11/52
10/78
1/9
1/9
1/98, 2/98, 3/98, 4/98, 5/98, 6/98, 7/98, 8/98, 9/98, 10/98, 11/98, 12/98
‘Alan Williams’ replies:
1/46, 3/48, 6/50, 7/46, 7/47, 9/46
5/83
12/85
4/95, 5/95, 6/95, 7/94, 8/94, 9/94, 10/94, 11/94, 12/94
‘Between the Lines’ replies:
Accidents:
Battersea Park / Class 455 separation near
11/91
Cambridge collision
1/16, 2/42, 3/49
Class 390 Pendolino coupler caution / Virgin
11/91
Cumnock engineering train collision
9/12
Crismill crossovers disrupts Eurostar / HS1 fatality near
4/85
Galashiels: Borders Rail work / Injury halts
1/20
Georgemas derailment
3/17
Jetty Lane level crossing / Collision at
6/30
Rail Safety Performance: No fatal accidents for eighth year running
9/13
Studenka kills three / Pendolino crash at
9/82
Vendenheim / French TGV derails on test near
12/83
Wootton Bassett: West Coast Railways track access rights suspended
5/12
‘Alan Williams’:
B
‘Between the Lines’:
A
8/82
4/85
10/82
8/46, 11/47, 11/48, 11/49, 12/4
‘Blood and Custard’:
1/45, 2/40, 3/44, 4/48, 5/46, 6/42, 7/42, 8/42, 9/42, 10/46, 11/44, 12/44
‘Blood and Custard’ replies:
British Transport Police:
Community Rail Partnerships: Working with young people
Bulgaria:
Sofia Airport / Metro expansion to
11/49, 12/49
Supp.10/10
4/85
C
Campaign to Protect Rural England:
North Devon reopening / Study backs
8/17
Campaign for Borders Rail:
Waverley route to reopen?
6/12
Canada:
* Toronto: Canadian connections
Train services
10/78
7/94, 8/46
Channel Tunnel:
Ashford / Funding for ETCS at
9/20
Calais: cross-channel disruption over the summer / Chaos in
9/80
Cars by rail – supporting a British success
12/20
Class 373 upgrade / Eurostar
9/91
Coal traffic slips again
4/21
e320 Velaro on HS1 test run
8/10
European trade is vital
10/18
Eurostar launches London – Marseille services
7/81
Eurostar sales hold up
6/13
Eurostar? / SNCF controlling
5/83
Eurostar sold / UK stake in
4/84
Eurostar takeover approved by EC
7/14
Eurostar’s e-320 Velaro raises the bar on quality
1/28, 2/30
Eurotunnel coupler overhaul on car shuttle carriages
8/90
Eurotunnel lorry shuttle design review / RFG calls for
4/85
Eurotunnel / More growth at
3/81
Eurotunnel revenue growth
9/81
Eurotunnel Shuttle design
3/47, 4/53
freight suspension / Channel Tunnel
10/82
* Gare du Nord set for makeover
8/78
HS1 car terminal / DB Schenker plans
2/18
HS1 fatality disrupts Eurostar
4/85
MyFerryLink dispute / End to
10/19
* Railway Political Map: Railways and Parliamentary Constituencies 2015
Supp.9/1, 10/49
1
*
traincare in Britain / A to Z of
Transmanche link proposed
Tunnel closed by fire / Channel
China:
Spain – China freight test
Supp.1/14
7/55
3/81
2/81
Civil Engineering:
Bank / Cutting queues at the
6/54, 7/47
Bathampton temporary period of disruption –
18 July - 1 September 2015 / Overview:
8/56
* Birmingham New Street complete
10/60, 12/46
* Birmingham New Street, old track
11/36, 12/47
* Borders Railway makes tracks
2/57
* Britain’s high-speed spine
12/51
Coal decline poses challenge
9/66
* Crossrail in transition: The journey from tunnel to portal
12/68
Crossrail tunnelling complete
7/96
Crossrail’s garden city
6/94
Crossrail 2 proposals unveiled
12/10
Dawlish one year on
3/20
Dawlish sea wall restored
9/20
Dawlish slip site stabilised
5/22
Dundee footbridge cakewalk
11/22
* East Coast main line resurgent
6/62
* East Coast performance revival
7/72
East Coast: The need for speed revived
4/26, 5/48
* EGIP gathers pace
9/50
Electrification methods
5/48, 6/48
Farnworth tunnel
9/15, 10/22
* Gare du Nord set for makeover
8/78
Great Western Electrification cost soars / Now it’s £3 billion
12/24
GWEP cost explosion: ‘Ignore the headlines’
12/26
GW electrification sets a new standard of corporate
incompetence / Outrageous!
12/42
GWML electrification: Hunting the frogs
10/30
Harbury all Brunel’s fault?
3/32
Harbury route reopens early
4/16
head checks / The challenge of
11/20
* Heathrow / Rail hub for
1/63
High Output Plant System hits target / GW
7/22
HS2: A very busy railway
12/57
impermanent way / The ageing (Railtalk)
3/6
* Infrastructure: The good, the bad & the ugly
7/49, 8/44, 8/45, 9/44
* investment programme: Projects drive forward / Network Rail
4/60
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
* London Bridge progress
2/49
Manchester Victoria / ‘St Pancras of the north’ complete:
Transport Secretary officially opens
11/12
Network Rail Control Period 5 delivery plan: Bad times just around
the corner (Railtalk)
7/6
Nottingham Express Transit Phase Two lines open
10/16
Parapet heights: A self-inflicted cost
11/32
Soham doubling paused
11/18
speed story / The high
12/52
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
* Swindon first: Other GW progress anybody’s bet
8/50, 9/44
Thameslink on time
2/46, 3/47
Third rail electrification
1/46, 3/48, 4/51, 8/45
Tunnel flooding hits Thameslink / Row between NR and
Thames Water over compensation
3/12
Community Rail Partnerships / Association of Community Rail Partnerships:
Community rail boost
11/3
Competition & Markets Authority:
‘rail on rail’ competition proposed / More
9/9
Consortium of East Coast Main Line Authorities (ECMA):
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
Councils / Local Authorities:
Ashford / Funding for ETCS at
9/20
Barrington Light Railway reborn
3/18, 11/60
Birmingham extension / Midland Metro blockade to connect
11/14
* Birmingham New Street complete
10/60, 12/46
Bodmin service by FGW?
7/13
* Borders Railway up and running
9/56
* Britain’s high-speed spine
12/51
Cannock depot approved / Rail link to
8/19
Cardiff / Light rail for
1/13
Chelmsford revival
3/17
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
Community rail boost
11/3
Community Rail forges ahead
Supp.10/12
Community Rail Partnerships: Working with young people
Supp.10/10
Croxley funding agreed
5/14
Dawlish sea wall restored
9/20
Dundee station revamp / Balfour Beatty for
10/22
East West Rail corridors
9/11
East West Rail delay / Concern over
12/11
Ebbw Vale extension
6/13
Edinburgh Gateway
3/22
Edinburgh tram extension
1/13
Edinburgh tram inquiry in August
7/16
Esk Valley services / Funding to double
8/13, 9/47
Euston / Revised plans for high speed at
10/12
Franchise devolution deal
5/16
Hastings speed up: Javelin plan remains on table / Call for
3/12, 4/51
Heathrow / Rail to support access to
8/16
Henbury spur backed for Bristol
9/10
High Speed Rail College location confirmed
2/93
Kenilworth station underway
4/18
* Lancashire: Red rose resurgent
Supp.10/14
London Assembly calls for rail devolution
12/16
Manchester Metrolink trams to Trafford / Funding
6/16
Mossend expansion plan approved
9/19
National Railway Heritage Awards 2014: celebrating our railway heritage 1/34
* Newcastle / Transport for
1/38, 2/43, 3/46
Newcourt station opens
7/12
North Devon reopening / Study backs
8/17
North East Combined Authority / First MD for
1/78
Northampton station opens / New
2/16
Oxford in October: Slightly delayed start for new service / Chiltern to
6/10
Oxford? / Light rail for
6/11
Oxford link: But worries over medium-term for varsity city / Go-ahead for Chiltern’s
8/20
Radlett rail freight interchange: Legal challenge over
8/19, 9/44
Regional expansion
8/55
*Riviera boost
Supp.10/3
Sleeper spearheads Cornish plan
11/8
Soham doubling paused
11/18
station investment / Local authorities drive
8/15
Sundon Rail Freight Interchange planned next to MML
7/21
* Transformation for the North
4/12, 5/48
Wakefield Kirkgate restored
10/15
Waterloo plans submitted
9/20
Waverley route to reopen?
6/12
Welsh government seeks franchising advice
8/12
West Hampstead redevelopment planned
2/16
West Midlands / Connecting the
12/64
Wolverton works plans submitted
10/14
Worcestershire plans approved: Passing loop proposed on Cotswold route
10/15, 11/49
* Wrexham? / Way forward for
3/54, 4/53, 5/50
‘Crossrail Update’:1/80, 2/96, 3/96, 4/96, 5/96, 6/94, 7/96, 8/97, 9/97, 10/97, 11/97, 12/97
2
zech Republic:
C
AWT sold / Freight operator
electrification mooted / Replacement of DC
GW Train Regio, to replace ČD / New regional operator,
Interpanter EMU on test
Ostrava airport line opens
Pendolino crash kills three
Prague cuts fares by 25%
2/81
3/81
6/82
11/83
7/81, 8/46
9/82
4/85
D
Denmark:
electrification plan / Main line
EuroCity work? / Leased diesel ICE trains to cease
IC4/IC2 in service
Nordjyske Jernbane / Lint DMUs for
Type EA electric locos reinstated
Devon Maritime Forum:
Dawlish one year on
10/83
7/81
7/82
10/83
10/82
3/20
E
Electrification:
Czech Republic:
3/81
Denmark:
10/83
Great Britain: 1/6, 1/9, 1/12, 1/18, 2/12, 2/36, 3/8, 3/9, 3/51, 3/54, 3/70, 4/6, 4/18, 4/26, 4/60, 4/66, 5/12, 5/16, 5/48, 7/3, 7/6, 7/8, 7/11, 7/18, 7/22, 8/6, 8/8, 8/12, 8/24, 8/45, 9/3, 9/14, 9/15, 9/22, 10/20, 10/30, 10/66, 11/22, 12/8, 12/13, 12/22, 12/24, 12/87
Hungary: 9/84
Slovenia: 11/85
English Heritage:
Ordsall Chord go-ahead
5/17
Estonia:
Go Rail suspends Estonia – Russia trains
Rail Baltica / Progress with
6/82
2/81
Europe:
Alleo joint venture to continue
9/82
Alstom sells
12/82
Alstom-GE deal / Green light for
10/93
Bombardier Transportation / Partial sale for
6/82
Citizens’ Rail: Spreading best practice Supp.10/2
* community: Local and regional rail / Involving the
Supp.10/1
Crossrail / Rhenus buys majority of
3/81
EC / Eurostar takeover approved by
7/14
EIB loan for London tube stations upgrades
11/92
EU funding focused on key international routes
11/82
Eurostar launches London – Marseille services
7/81
Eurostar sold / UK stake in
4/84
Eurotunnel lorry shuttle design review / RFG calls for
4/85
Eurotunnel / More growth at
3/81
Felixstowe – Nuneaton fails in EU bid
10/19
freight suspension / Channel Tunnel
10/82
HS1 fatality disrupts Eurostar
4/85
HS2 tenders published: Option of 50-mile addition to Phase 1 included 11/16
Hitachi buys
12/82
ICE trains to cease EuroCity work? / Leased diesel
7/81
Lyon-Turin high speed line under the Alps / Go ahead for new
4/85
Migrant crisis causes rail closures
12/82
Parapet heights: A self-inflicted cost
11/32
Rail Baltica / Progress with
2/81
RFC North Sea – Mediterranean freight corridor extended
12/20
Russia to EU services cut back
1/70
security questions / Thalys attack raises
10/82
Spain – China freight test
2/81
TEN-T programme / Prioritised corridors as part of
11/82
Thello expands daytime service
ticketing inconsistencies / Conference highlights
*Tourist trains
Velaro-D Class 407 starts services to Paris / DB’s new
Vossloh Rail Vehicles sold to Stadler
‘Europe View’: 5/82
2/85
2/76
8/82
12/82
1/70, 2/81, 3/81, 4/84, 5/82, 6/82, 7/81, 8/82, 9/82, 10/82, 11/82, 12/82
F
Finland:
diesels for new freight operator / Rebuilt
Helsinki airport connected to rail network
‘Forum’:
3/82
9/82
1/46, 2/42, 3/46, 4/51, 5/48, 6/48, 7/44, 8/44, 9/44, 10/48, 11/46, 12/46
France:
Alleo joint venture to continue
Calais crisis: European trade is vital
Calais: cross-channel disruption over the summer / Chaos in
Calais intermodal hub opens
Euro 4000s to be delivered in 2015 / Ten more
Eurostar takeover approved by EC
Francilien Z50000 Emus at St Lazare * Gare du Nord set for makeover
long distance services in doubt / Future of
Lyon-Turin high speed line under the Alps / Go ahead for new
MyFerryLink dispute / End to
Paris / Multiple tram extensions for
Paris / Over 100 new trains for
Paris / Regio 2N for
Pays de la Loire: The beach train
Postal TGVs withdrawn
Provence / Sourges – Carpentras line re-opening in
rail industry for 2015 / Restructured
Régiolis in service and more ordered
TGV derails on test / French
Thalys attack raises security questions
Thello expands daytime service
Velaro-D Class 407 starts services to Paris / DB’s new
9/82
10/18
9/80
12/84
3/82
7/14
8/82
8/78
7/83
4/85
10/19
1/70
4/85
2/83
Supp.10/6
8/83
6/82
2/82
9/82
12/83
10/82
5/82
8/82
Freight on Rail:
National Networks National Policy Statement supports rail freight interchanges / New
2/19
Freight Operating Companies:
Barrington freight workings begin
Cars by rail – supporting a British success
Coal decline poses challenge
efficiency – where next? / Rail freight * Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
Freight under the cosh (Railtalk)
* freight work / Making
* Golden Whistles Awards: ‘Whistles’ reward punctual operators
Operation Stack on M20
* traincare depots in Britain / A to Z of
Winter wonderland
Colas:
Class 50 hoovering up steel traffic
Devonport engineering work / Class 70 on
fuel flow / Colas wins
Preston / Colas at
Total contract / Colas Rail wins
DB Schenker:
Asda from London Gateway
Cemex naming: Dove Holes
Chelmsford revival
Class 67: What it says on the MTIN
Construction contracts for DB Schenker
9/18
12/20
9/66
1/18
7/56
12/6
8/70
3/62, 4/51
9/44
Supp.1/14
2/34
7/21
1/18
11/18
3/16
2/19
9/19
6/20
3/17
7/91
12/21
3
Drax / DBS wins at
5/21
Ecofrets delivered
7/20
Fawley refinery finale
5/21
granite to London / DBS moving
8/19
HS1 car terminal / DB Schenker plans
2/18
Hope springs eternal for DB Schenker
11/19
intermodal growth / DBS
3/17
Job cuts at DRS: Decline in coal traffic to blame, says company
8/18
London Gateway increase
5/21
Port of Sunderland reconnected
3/16
Teesport / New service from
8/19
Zephir 1800e CRAB shunters for DBS
5/90
Devon & Cornwall Railways:
Ballast trains for Barrington Light Railway
3/18, 11/60
Driver fined for safety breaches
9/12
Direct Rail Services:
Class 37 ‘not dead’, says DRS / Caterpillar
4/91
Class 66 in engineering train collision at Cumnock
9/12
* Class 68: The class of 68
3/38, 4/53
Class 68s for Fife Circle
4/91
Class 68s ordered / Seven more
9/90
Freightliner:
Business Development Director for Freightliner Group / Neil McNicholas becomes
11/86
Chair Peter Maybury retires / Freightliner
7/86
Chelmsford revival
3/17
coal for Freightliner / More
6/20
Genesee & Wyoming / Freightliner sold to
4/20
GB Railfreight:
aggregates / GBRf trebles
2/18
Biomass runs to Drax / GBRf begins
12/21
Birch Coppice service
10/19
Caledonian Sleeper fleet update
5/90, 7/47
Class 59 Yeoman Highlander returns
7/90
Class 66, Inspiration Delivered, to haul first IEP / Named
6/91
Class 66s / GBRf and EMD celebrate latest
2/19
* Class 73 – Prime number
5/38, 6/50
Class 73s in service / GBRf refurbished
11/90
Class 73/9s finally enter traffic / GBRf
4/90
Class 90s drafted in to Anglo-Scottish sleeper legs
10/90
Cricklewood / GBRf moves into
10/19
Drax / GBRf’s deal with
7/21
electrification / Call for strategic
1/18
gypsum deal / GBRf’s
9/19
Soham doubling paused
11/18
Swindon – Gloucester: Glorious Golden Valley
1/22
Freight Transport Association:
National Networks National Policy Statement supports rail freight
interchanges / New
2/19
Future Railway:
* Research – still dead
9/36, 10/48
G
Germany:
Alleo joint venture to continue
Arriva and DB Schenker / DB considering part sale of
Berlin cross city tunnel / Five month closure for
Berlin Hauptbahnhof eight years after it opened / Trams reach
Cross-border co-operation
DB Regio / New stock for
Euregiobahn / DN Regio retains
EuroCity work? / Leased diesel ICE trains to cease
ICE / Alstom ETCS for
ICE2 to be equipped with Mitsubishi traction equipment
Intercity expansion / DB plans ambitious
Leipzig / Tramino for
4
9/82
9/83
3/83
2/83
Supp.10/8
7/83
10/82
7/81
1/71
1/71
5/84
4/86
Munich picks Avenio low-floor trams
Nuremburg S-Bahn awards / National Express wins
Nuremburg S-Bahn dispute / End in sight for
Nuremburg setback for National Express
open access inter-city services in 2016 / More
Open access setbacks for RDC
Passenger numbers hit record levels
Results 2014: Mixed year for DB
Rhein-Ruhr-Express contracts / National Express and Abellio share
Saarbahn extends north
strikes / DB and union GDL agree end to long running
Stuttgart line / Hydrogen-powered trains for re-opened
Sylt motorail? / Competition for
train fleets (mostly) enter service / New
Vectron locos for MRCE / More
Velaro-D Class 407 starts services to Paris / DB’s new
Vossloh to sell rolling stock business
Greengauge 21:
North Devon reopening / Study backs
11/83
3/82
11/83
6/83
12/84
4/86
5/83
5/83
8/83
1/71
2/83
6/83
1/71
2/83
12/84
8/82
10/82
8/17
H
Halifax & District Rail Action Group:
Calder Valley work to start
High Speed 1:
car terminal / DB Schenker plans HS1
chair Nicola Shaw considers Network Rail privatisation / HS1
e320 Velaro on HS1 test run
Engineering Director / Sean Horkan to join HS1 as
fatality near Crismill crossovers disrupts Eurostar / HS1
Privatisation or Nationalisation: Wheel/rail integration is key
12/22
2/18
12/9
8/10
1/78
4/85
11/6
High Speed 2:
Board / Lord Adonis for HS2 9/86
* Britain’s high-speed spine
12/51
busy railway / A very
12/57
Consortium to bid for HS2
6/92
delivery in doubt: Major Projects Authority says urgent action is needed / HS2
8/10
East Midlands Hub / HS2
9/13
* Euston / Redeveloping
12/59
Euston / Revised plans for high speed at
10/12
Government backs HS2
7/14
Heathrow / Rail to support access to
8/16
* HS2: A railway for 2100
12/54
Hybrid Bill: Over 120 amendments made / Changes to HS2
8/10
Joint ventures bid for High Speed 2
Supp.8/13
London terminus implications
6/95, 7/47
Old Oak / New station for
12/62
* Railway Political Map: Railways and Parliamentary Constituencies 2015
Supp.9/1, 10/49
speed story / The high
12/52
tenders published: Option of 50-mile addition to Phase 1 included / HS2 11/16
West Midlands / Connecting the
12/64
Hungary:
Class 380 in Hungary / Czech
Electrification goes live in Western Hungary
‘Golden Eagle’ / Budapest – Tehran
Mercedes runs trains from Hungary to Turkey
Szeged tram-train begins / Planning for first
1/71
9/84
1/70
7/84
5/85
I
Iceland:
rail projects under study / Two
8/83
‘In Business’:
1/76, 2/92, 3/92, 4/92, 5/91, 6/92, 7/92, 8/92, 9/92, 10/92, 11/92, 12/92
Industry:
AECOM invests in rail delivery
Supp.8/8
Alan Dick Communications onboard info trial success
3/92
Alstom for Crossrail substations
9/93
Alstom invests
6/92
Alstom sells
12/82
Alstom takes full control of SSL
7/92
Alstom-GE deal / Green lights for
10/93
Applied Card Technologies / Fujitsu acquires
10/93
Arup for Forth Bridge design
2/92
* Aspirations: All our pomp of yesterday – Past achievements no guide for today’s industry
11/70, 12/46
Atkins reorganises
1/76
Barnbrook Systems BlueCube success
2/93
Basingstoke Campus welcomes students
12/93
Birley’s rail capabilities
11/8
Bombardier first Class 345 shell ready
10/90
Bombardier: New Overground deal: 45 new EMUs to be built in Derby
8/9
Bombardier Transportation / Partial sale for
6/82
Bombardier’s graduates
10/86
Bombardier’s new UK Managing Director / Richard Hunter is
9/86
Brecknell Willis world leaders in current collection
Supp.4/14
Christmas engineering overrun penalties likely
3/22
* Class 800: Hitachi’s first Intercity Express
1/51
Colour-Rail goes online
2/92, 11/93
* consultancy projects for 2015 and beyond / Rail evolution showcasing the UK’s
Supp.8/1
Consultants at the sharp end
Supp.8/3
CPC’s dedicated Rail Systems team
4/92
DCA Design International: Cab design in Class 800 series
Supp.8/12
DCA Design International: Design award for IEP
12/93
Doc Frank / CBTC course launched by
2/92
Dura Composites new Needham Market platform
7/93
Edif ERA: Mind the skills gap – delivering a systems approach to training
Supp.8/15
EMD celebrate latest Class 66s / GBRf and
2/19
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
Eric Wright Rail awarded Principal Contractor Licence
7/22
ESG / DfT STAR rating for
12/92
ESG / Handrail job for
11/93
ESG Rail – experts in rolling stock consultancy
Supp.8/14
ESG sensors for LU slippery rails
8/93
European Rail Infrastructure / Paul Plummer new President for
1/78
Frankham’s Building Surveying: LU depot survey contract
4/93
Furrey+Frey high speed power in tunnels
8/92
Future of Rail conference
5/93
Garrandale and Datum in partnership
7/92
Garrandale / Colin S Walton joins
7/86
Garrandale’s Crossrail win
4/92
* Golden Spanner Awards 2014: Rolling stock engineers drive
for reliability
Supp.1/3
* Golden Whistles Awards: ‘Whistles’ reward punctual operators
3/62, 4/51
Gleeds / Directors for
6/86
Hepworth Rail Railtex award
7/93
Hepworth: Wipers go electric
6/14
High Speed Rail College location confirmed
2/93
Hitachi buys Ansaldo Breda
4/84, 12/82
Hitachi: Design award for IEP
12/92
Hitachi IEP reaches North Pole
12/88
Hitachi IEP testing progress
7/90
Hitachi is here
10/3
Hitachi plant at Newton Aycliffe / Canny factory like: New
10/8
Hitachi Rail / Karen Boswell to manage
6/86
Hitachi: Stoke Gifford depot milestone
3/92
Hitachi to supply Thameslink core TMS
9/33
Hitachi’s TREsa / Automatic route setting product acceptance for
5/91
Houghton International earns RISAS certification
4/93
Houghton’s repair offer
6/92
Icomera: New HQ for wifi specialist
11/92
innovation / Industry encourages
4/54
Interfleet integrates
11/92
Interfleet promotions
9/86
Ipex Consulting expands
3/94
Iveco vans for Network Rail welders
1/76
Jacobs Engineering Group designing WRAtH
5/92
Kee Systems products for Hayle station
2/93
Ketech / Boost for
12/92
Knorr-Bremse RailServices
Supp.1/29
Knorr-Bremse stamps its mark on Wolverton
7/76
Kobe shapes for IEP
1/76
Laing O’Rourke: Wagon wheel solution for Crossrail tunnelling
5/92
LH Group the DMU power train specialists
Supp.4/12
Liebherr-Transportation Systems / Class 700 job for
11/93
Linsinger: Rail milling technology: The challenge of head checks
11/20
Mechan makes quartet of IEP deliveries
Supp.1/30
Mechan Middle East link
4/93
Mechan’s wheel measurement solution
3/93
*Modern Railways Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015
8/64
Morgan Advanced Materials current collection strip development
7/93
Morgan Sindall Professional Services: Dundee footbridge cakewalk
11/22
Mors Smitt leading on ETCS compatibility
6/93
Mors Smitt’s TPWS+STM
6/34, 12/16
Mott MacDonald: European Train Control System examined
5/22
MTR’s Crossrail team
4/94
MTU refurbish VTEC engines for HSTs
12/88
NCP for London Underground car parks
2/93
New Civil Engineer gears up for UK Rail
5/92
Parsons Brinckerhoff wins US high speed deal for consultants
7/93
Parsons Brinckerhoff York base opened
1/76
Perpetuum / Dr Jonathan Gore joins
12/95
Perpetuum goes down under
5/92
Perpetuum track deal
11/93
Perpetuum / Track monitoring from
6/93
Petards eyeTrain boost
10/92
procurement / The cure of 10/44
Quantum Seating
5/42
Rail Manche Finance EEIG
Supp.8/20
Rail Order cable repair for Siemens
1/77
Rail Vehicle Enhancements EXPO and Forum returns to Derby
4/92, 9/92
Rail Vehicle Enhancements: RVE 2015
Supp.8/17
Railtex 2015 prepares to welcome visitors
3/78
* Railtex 2015: RSG adds its weight to
5/76
Railtex / Manufacturers debut new designs at
7/91
* Railtex / NEC prepares to welcome
4/76
* Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015 / The
6/75
* Research – still dead
9/36, 10/48
Ricardo plc: Consultants at the sharp end
Supp.8/3
Ricardo plc takes over Lloyd’s Register Rail
6/92, 8/93
Robel mobile maintenance trains arrive on NR
10/20
Saft back-up power for 1995 stock
8/93
Scheidt & Bachmann (UK) Ltd appoints Fiona Fletcher as MD Fares Collection Systems
4/94
Schwihag expands UK site
9/92
Serco-led consortium wins Saudi contract
4/93
Siemens / New directors for
1/78
Siemens Rail Automation’s office at Chippenham / Rail Minister Claire Perry visits
11/93
Siemens supports Scottish projects
9/64
Skanska consortium for Wessex route
3/22
5
SKF bearing solution
1/77
‘Smartwatches’: Time goes smart on London Overground
11/92
Staffordshire Alliance: Norton Bridge track laying
11/22
Systra / Appointments at
6/86
The Railway Engineering Company takes on Hitachi name
10/93
thetrainline.com takeover
3/93
* Three Peaks by rail
11/78
Tracsis plc: A model approach
3/73
Tracsis plc: First class solutions … across the operational and strategic planning horizon
Supp.8/16
* traincare depots in Britain / A to Z of
Supp.1/14
Trainline campaign
10/92
Traka iFobs for Southeastern
1/77
TRB Lightweight Structures
7/92
Trelleborg springs for Central Line
7/93
Trelleborg springs for Crossrail fleet
9/93
UK Power Reserve for Old Dalby test track
3/92
Unipart and Lucchini joint venture
1/76
Unipart / Board members at
9/86
Unipart Rail / Sustained lean transformation with
Supp.8/18
Unipart Rail: Wipers go electric
6/14
VGC / Crossrail for
9/20
Vossloh for Thiele / More
3/93
Vossloh Kiepe’s UK Sales Director Graham Roberts retires
8/87
Vossloh Rail Vehicles sold to Stadler
12/82
Vossloh takeover bid
3/92
Vossloh to sell rolling stock business
10/82
*Wabtec Group
Supp.4/1
Wabtec / Isabelle Lloyd moving to
10/86
Wabtec / New faces at
7/86
Wabtec offers to buy Faiveley Transport
9/92, 11/92
Wabtec’s new workshop at Doncaster / HRH The Princess Royal opens 10/63
Wilmat supplies lifting equipment for Pendolino overhaul
5/93
ZF transmission technology
Supp.1/28
Zonegreen safety award
9/92
Zonegreen’s depot personnel protection system: The safe zone
Supp.1/31
‘Informed Sources’:
1/30, 2/22, 3/24, 4/26, 5/28, 6/24, 7/24, 8/22, 9/22, 10/24, 11/24, 12/24
‘Informed Sources’ replies:
1/46, 2/30, 4/37, 6/49, 8/44, 10/49
‘Infrastructure News’:
1/26, 2/20, 3/20, 4/22, 5/22, 6/22, 7/22, 8/20, 9/20, 10/24, 11/20, 12/22
Institution of Mechanical Engineers:
Chairman of the Railway Division / IMechE role for Chris Kinchin-Smith as 8/87
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
Railway Challenge
5/93
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers:
Learning opportunities
1/78
Iran:
‘Golden Eagle’ / Budapest – Tehran
1/70
Ireland:
Belfast (Portadown) – Londonderry via Omagh: An Irish ‘Waverley Route’? 4/53
Belmond Grand Hibernian luxury touring train
1/71
Claremorris – Athenry route / Business group calls for reopening of
9/84
Cork / Investments for faster journeys to
3/83
DART 10-min frequency
6/84
DART Underground project ‘will not proceed’
11/83
Foynes branch re-activation?
4/87
Foynes line to reopen?
8/84
Freight continues growth
3/84
growth / Ireland looks to
8/76
Landcruise Mk 3s to be refurbished in Scotland
2/84
6
Loco top and tail working now permitted on IÉ
locos to be reinstated / Irish Rail
luxury trains / More
Mk 4 trial to Tralee
network sees passenger growth / Irish rail
Phoenix Park line upgrade
Road and rail authorities merge
seasonal events / IÉ targets
Station enhancements planned
ticket system for Ireland / New
4/88
5/85
5/86
3/84
2/84
10/83
6/84
1/72
9/84
2/93
Italy:
Class E403 electric locos for Inter-city services
Class ETR425 ‘Jazz’ and ATR220 ‘Swing’ enter service with Trenitalia
NTV / Cutbacks at
NTV / More trains for
privatisation for FS / Quick
Rome Metro extended
Thello expands daytime service
Turin-Lyon high speed line under the Alps / Go ahead for new
Zefiro: Italy’s new super fast train
6/83
5/86
1/73
12/84
1/73
9/85
5/82
4/85
12/66
L
Latvia:
Corruption probe hits loco purchase and LDZ chairman
Rail Baltica / Progress with
Type 2M62u Soviet era diesels / MTU engines for
Lithuania:
Rail Baltica / Progress with
10/83
2/81
1/72
2/81
London:
1995 stock / Back-up power for
8/93
1995 stock upgrade complete
6/91
* airport rail links / London’s
1/58
Amersham tube station roof survey
10/92
Apple Pay / TfL to accept
7/11
Asda from London Gateway
9/19
Bakerloo fleet suffers / Corrosion:
6/26
Bank / Cutting queues at the
6/54, 7/47
Barbican box goes
3/10
Barking Riverside extension backed: Consultation reveals support for London Overground extension
3/12
Brighton main line investment study
12/10
Brighton main line 2 study / Chancellor, George Osborne, backs
9/10
* Britain’s high-speed spine
12/51
* c2c / New era for
9/69
Canary Wharf station complete
11/97
* capacity on the South Western / Boosting
5/58
car parks / NCP for London Underground
2/93
Central Line fleet / New traction for
3/31
Central Line / Springs for
7/93
Charing Cross / Fire closes
1/10
cities / Serving our
4/20
Class 230 confounds cynics
10/26
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
Class 345 fleet / Trelleborg springs for Crossrail
9/93
Class 345 shell ready / First
10/90
Class 387s for FGW
3/9
Class 700 Thameslink fleet takes shape
2/54
Clayton diesel hydraulic rebuilds
4/40
contingency planning / ORR calls for better
3/14
Cricklewood / GBRf moves into
10/19
crises / ORR warnings presage year of
2/26
Crossrail for VGC
9/20
* Crossrail in transition: The journey from tunnel to portal
12/68
Crossrail overground section upgrade: Time is tight
8/97
Crossrail route safeguarded
5/17
Crossrail soil and rock samples: Preserved in salt
10/97
Crossrail station progress
12/97
Crossrail stations take shape
2/96
Crossrail substations / Alstom for
9/93
Crossrail team / MTR’s
4/94
Crossrail track and trains next
4/96
Crossrail tunnel boring machine Elizabeth broken up
9/97
Crossrail tunnelling complete
7/96
Crossrail tunnelling nearing completion
1/80
Crossrail tunnelling / Wagon wheel solution for
5/92
Crossrail win / Garrandale’s
4/92
Crossrail’s garden city
6/94
Crossrail 2 consulting
3/93
Crossrail 2 / Dr Michèle Dix to be Managing Director
2/94
Crossrail 2 plans develop
Supp.8/20
Crossrail 2 proposals unveiled
12/10
Croxley funding agreed
5/14
Croydon / Additional trams arrive in
6/91
Croydon Tramlink drive national rise / Light rail growth: Docklands Light Railway and
7/16
Custom House Crossrail station built
6/96
D-Train trial proposed for GW
7/13
Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink drive national rise / Light rail growth:
7/16
DLR fleet planned / New
7/91
DLR / Longitudinal seating on
10/12
DLR New Train
8/30
drains / Lanes curing
7/22
* Euston / Redeveloping
12/59
Euston / Revised plans for high speed at
10/12
Farringdon roof supports relined
2/21
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
funding / Fall in Government
10/13
* Golden Whistles Awards: ‘Whistles’ reward punctual operators
3/62, 4/51
GOBLIN wiring by June 2017
7/11
GOBLIN wiring deadline in doubt
10/20
Gospel Oak – Barking line? / D train on
2/89
granite to London / DBS moving
8/19
* Heathrow / Rail hub for
1/63
Heathrow / Rail to support access to
8/16
High speed story / The
12/52
* HS2: A railway for 2100
12/54
impermanent way / The ageing (Railtalk)
3/6
Infrastructure Commission / Chancellor George Osborne launches National
12/8
* Infrastructure: The good, the bad & the ugly
7/49, 8/44, 8/45, 9/44
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49
Light rail growth: DLR and Croydon Tramlink drive national rise
7/16
Liverpool Street tunnelling breakthrough
3/96
London Bridge / No safety risk at
9/16
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
London Bridge progress
1/20
* London Bridge progress
2/49
London Gateway increase
5/21
* London North Western (South) 21st century control centre
7/30
London Overground concession / Four bidders for
8/16
London Overground deal: 45 new EMUs to be built in Derby / New
8/9
London Overground driver training: a new approach
3/69
London Overground EMUs: Bombardier triumphs
8/31
London Overground expands
7/10, 8/46
* London Overground / Growth for
6/56, 7/46, 9/44
London Overground HR director / Carol Poole appointed
4/94
London Overground operator search / TfL begins 5/14
London Overground ‘Smartwatches’: Time goes smart on
11/92
* London special: A Modern Railways special report
6/51
London Underground cable job for Balfour Beatty
2/21
LU depot survey contract
4/93
LU to adopt Sentinel
4/21
National Passenger Survey: I can’t get no…
3/36
Network Rail in crisis
8/22
Night Tube start deferred
10/13
Northern Line / EIB funding for
3/93
Northern Line Upgrade 1
6/52
Old Oak / New station for
12/62
operating costs / TOCs cover train
2/62
Oyster and contactless Pay as you go to Gatwick
12/11
Passenger numbers hit record levels
7/12
Passenger satisfaction falls: London and South East suffers in latest survey 8/11
Performance decline: Industry-wide PPM and right time numbers fall
6/8
Policies: No jam? Bring on the hot buttered toast (Railtalk)
10/6
policing plans / Night tube
7/11
* privatisation / Twenty years of partial
9/74
rail devolution / London Assembly calls for
12/16
* Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015 / The
6/75
* Regional growth
5/68, 6/50
* Rolling stock reshuffle driving May timetable amendments
5/24
rolling stock round up / Captain Deltic’s
8/29
signalling twice the price and four years late / LU sub-surface
5/34
slippery rails / ESG sensors for LU
8/93
‘Smartwatches’: Time goes smart on London Overground
11/92
South West Trains franchise amendment / £50 million for
5/17
SSL resignalling to cost £760 million
9/32
station investment / Local authorities drive
8/15
stations / Technology boon: Helping staff at lightly-staffed
3/70
Targets: Time to run a railway
6/6
Thameslink core TMS / Hitachi to supply
9/33
Thameslink: DfT in pitiful cover-up
1/32
Thameslink: DfT train procurement questioned
2/12
* Thameslink? / East Coast performance a catastrophe for
6/66, 7/44, 8/44
Thameslink on time
2/46, 3/47
Thameslink: Row between NR and Thames Water over compensation / Tunnel flooding hits
3/12
Thameslink Three Bridges depot opens
12/92
Thameslink timeline
2/52
* Thameslink transition: December 2015 timetable change
11/52
Three Bridges / The up side to
6/14
ticketing inconsistencies / Conference highlights
2/85
* ticketing: Rewriting the rules / Rail
3/74
Timetable challenges
8/9, 9/44
TMS procurement: Going round in circles
6/24
TPWS upgrade
12/30
TPWS+STM / Mors Smitt’s
6/34
* traincare in Britain / A to Z of
Supp.1/14
Transport for London Commissioner / Mike Brown appointed new
11/86
Tube passenger record smashed twice
1/11
tube station upgrades / EIB loan for
11/92
Uckfield to Lewes
2/45
Victoria Line August blockade
4/21
Victoria Line / Remote condition monitoring for
2/93
Waterloo plans submitted
9/20
West Hampstead redevelopment planned
2/16
Wimbledon tram upgrade underway
8/15
Luxembourg:
ERTMS rollout planned / National
Kiss EMUs in service / New
1/72
5/85
M
Moldova:
cross-border service to Romania / New local
11/84
‘Moving Wheels’:
1/74, 2/86, 3/86, 4/90, 5/90, 6/90, 7/90, 8/90, 9/90, 10/90, 11/90, 12/86
‘Moving Wheels’ replies:11/48
7
N
National:
Aberdeen – Inverness / BAM for
12/22
‘Access for All’ boost / £60M
2/16
Anglia franchise shortlist
7/11
Apperley / August opening for
5/22
* Aspirations: All our pomp of yesterday – Past achievements no guide for today’s industry
11/70, 12/46
austerity affordable? / Is (Railtalk)
9/6
Barking Riverside extension backed: Consultation reveals support for London Overground extension
3/12
blockades / Call for more nighttime
7/8
Bolton Interchange takes shape
12/12
* Borders Railway looking back and forward / The
9/60
* Borders Railway makes tracks
2/57
Borders Railway / Royal opening for
10/10
* Borders Railway up and running
9/56
Borders track laying complete
3/22
Brighton main line investment study
12/10
Brighton main line 2 study / Chancellor, George Osborne, backs
9/10
Britain / Welcome to
9/41
* Britain’s high-speed spine
12/51
BTP to become E&WTP?
6/9
Bus subsidies
2/45
Calais crisis: European trade is vital
10/18
Calder Valley work to start
12/22
* capacity on the South Western / Boosting
5/58
Cardiff / Light rail for
1/13
chefs / Reprieve for ATW on-board
1/12
Christmas engineering overrun penalties likely
3/22
cities / Serving our
4/20
Class 43 HST solution sought
11/91
Class 142, 143 and 144 Pacer politics / Cameron and Osborne complicate
1/26, 2/43, 3/46, 5/50, 11/49
Class 230: Shooter misses foot
10/36
Class AT200 EMU deal signed / ScotRail
4/17
Coal decline poses challenges
9/66
coal train running please turn the lights out? / Will the last
7/20
Coalition Government: So long, and thanks for all the track
5/44
* community: Local and regional rail / Involving the
Supp.10/1
CP5 enhancements programme in ruins
10/24
crises / ORR warnings presage year of
2/26
Crossrail route safeguarded
5/17
Croxley funding agreed
5/14
Department for Transport awards STAR framework to ESG
12/92
DfT / Bernadette Kelly new Director General for Rail at
9/86
DfT Director General Clare Moriarty to leave and move to Defra
8/87
DfT faces 30% cut in spending
12/9
DfT in pitiful cover-up
1/32
DfT ministers appointed
7/86
DfT train procurement questioned
2/12
Digital Railway: Bigger than Network Rail?
11/28
Direct award for TPE
5/17
East Anglia rail franchise: New trains not a requirement but are ‘expected’ / ‘Norwich in 90’ in next
11/14
East Coast / 140mph plan for
3/8
* East Coast capacity crunch
7/24, 8/44
* East Coast main line timetable: Pathing problems ahead?
6/70, 7/44, 8/45
East Coast operation / Virgin launches
4/8
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
East Coast / Stagecoach and Virgin take Intercity
1/24
East Coast: State operator bows out
4/9
East Coast: The need for speed revived
4/26, 5/48
East Coast / Virgin-Stagecoach for
1/8
East Coast! / Welcome to
12/72
East Midland Trains direct award to 2018: Stagecoach to pay £150 million premium
11/17
8
Ebbw Vale extension
6/13
* EGIP gathers pace
9/50
efficiency targets / NR failed to meet
12/15
Election: 2015 – Let’s face the music and dance
2/18
electrification / Call for strategic
1/18
Electrification plan failures
8/94
Electrification progress: First wires on GW and EGIP projects
12/8
electrification shunted for GWML / Paused: MML and TPE
8/24
electrification un-pause: Downing Street issues decree / Immediate
11/24
Ely double tracking proposal
4/21
Emergency services: Cambridge collision
1/16
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
Fife line resignalling
2/14
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
Fleets: The invisible hand of the DfT (Railtalk)
1/6
Franchise devolution deal
5/16
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
Freedom of Information Act / Network Rail subject to
5/13
freight? / Who plays the political tunes for
11/18
funding / Fall in Government
10/13
future / Anticipating the
5/3
GOBLIN wiring by June 2017
7/11
GOBLIN wiring deadline in doubt
10/20
Governance: Richard Brown appointed as special director / Changes to NR 8/9
Great North Western Railway / Access rights granted to
10/94
Great Western / Direct award for First
5/8
GW Electrification cost soars / Now it’s £3 billion
12/24
GWEP cost explosion: ‘Ignore the headlines’
12/26
Great Western electrification sets a new standard of corporate incompetence / Outrageous!
12/42
Great Western franchise: GWR reborn
11/8
GWML electrification: Hunting the frogs
10/30
Great Western Route Modernisation / Boiling frogs
9/22, 10/49
Great Western wiring examined: Carne highlights need for design-led process
12/13
* Greater Anglia franchise: Anglia meander
10/38
growth deals: Market Harborough realignment leads winning rail bids / MML win in new
3/10, 4/52
Hastings speed up: Javelin plan remains on table / Call for
3/12, 4/51
Heathrow / Rail to support access to
8/16
HS1 as Engineering Director / Sean Horkan to join
1/78
HS2 / Atkins’ Building Information Modelling for
5/92
HS2 delivery in doubt: Major Projects Authority says urgent action is needed
8/10
HS2 East Midlands Hub
9/13
HS2 / Government backs
7/14
HS2 Hybrid Bill: Over 120 amendments made / Changes to
8/10
HS2 / Stuart Westgate to join
4/94
HS2: West Coast capacity
2/45, 3/46, 5/50
HST delay expected / Scottish
3/11
Hitachi is here
10/3
Hitachi plant at Newton Aycliffe / Canny factory like: New
10/8
House of Commons Transport Committee / Louise Ellman to chair
8/87
Hull to Selby: Privately-funded wiring?
3/51
IEP bi-mode limitations
12/28
IEP bi-mode performance conundrum / West of England
5/30
IEP bi-modes exceeding expectations
11/90
IEP catering row continues
2/13
IEP charges update
2/26
IEP cost / VTEC profile highlights
2/22
IEP depots on line in 2015
Supp.1/27
IEP reaches North Pole / Hitachi
12/88
infrastructure – a role for rail / Building Britain’s
3/16
Infrastructure Commission / Chancellor George Osborne
launches National
12/8
* Infrastructure: The good, the bad & the ugly
7/49, 8/44, 8/45, 9/44
Innovating for a better railway
8/64
Investment: Brave new world (Railtalk)
2/6
investment / Call for
3/16
Investment: Consulting the sages
12/31
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49, 5/49
Invitations to Tender delayed / TransPennine and Northern
1/9
Island Line to stand alone again?
10/17
Kenilworth station underway
4/18
Local Growth Funds
3/10, 4/52
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
* London’s airport rail links
1/58
Manchester Metrolink trams to Trafford / Funding
6/16
Midland and Trans-Pennine wiring ‘paused’: Great Western project prioritised
8/8
Mobile connection consultation
7/9
Mossend expansion plan approved
9/19
National Networks National Policy Statement supports rail freight interchanges / New
2/19
Network Rail Control Period 5 delivery plan: Bad times just around the corner (Railtalk)
7/6
Network Rail in crisis
8/22
Network Rail privatisation / HS1 chair Nicola Shaw considers
12/9
* Newcastle / Transport for
1/38, 2/43, 3/46
Newcourt station opens
7/12
North Wales resignalling in CP5 / Rail Minister Claire Perry confirms
12/22
North Wales studied / Trans-Pennine to
8/13
North Wales wiring in doubt
4/18
North West Electrification? / Further delays to
9/14
* Northern franchise: Bright future for the north
6/44, 7/45
Office of Rail and Road – an opportunity or a distraction?
5/20
* Oil prices: Good times, bad times
2/36
Open access: Conflict or customer choice?
1/48, 2/43
operating costs / TOCs cover train
2/62
Operation Stack on M20
9/44, 9/80
Ordsall Chord decision deferred
11/9
Ordsall Chord delayed again by appeal
8/13
Ordsall Chord for Ordsall Chord
12/12
Ordsall Chord go-ahead
5/17
Oxford Parkway line opened by Prime Minister David Cameron
12/11
Pacer elimination / McLoughlin imposes Northern
4/30
Parapet heights: A self-inflicted cost
11/32
performance / Driver shortages hit GTR
2/15
Policies: No jam? Bring on the hot buttered toast (Railtalk)
10/6
Privatisation or Nationalisation: Wheel/rail integration is key
11/6
* privatisation / Twenty years of partial
9/74
Queen’s New Year honours list: Knighthood for Tom Winsor
2/94
Radlett rail freight interchange: Legal challenge over
8/19, 9/44
Rail Minister Claire Perry opens Northampton Academy
12/92
Rail Minister Claire Perry visits Siemens Rail Automation’s office at Chippenham
11/93
‘rail on rail’ competition proposed / More
9/9
* Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015 / The
6/75
* Railway Political Map: Railways and Parliamentary Constituencies 2015
Supp.9/1, 10/49
*Regional revival
10/66
roads as well / ORR takes on
5/17
Rolling stock cascade plan: First Class 142 Pacers could be withdrawn in 2017
3/9
* Rolling stock reshuffle driving May timetable amendments
5/24
Rolling stock reshuffle in the north
2/10, 3/49
Rolling stock upgrades central to Northern franchise
4/34
* Scotland / Devolution delivering for
5/72, 6/50
* Scotland / In focus:
9/49
Scotland to go Lean
6/12
Scottish Class 156s / Toilet tanks for
12/88
Scottish freight strategy / Call for
8/19
Secretary of State for Transport: Hold fast to the hot potato (Railtalk)
5/6
Soham doubling paused
11/18
South West franchise / Plans for dedicated
3/8
South West Trains / £50 million for
5/17
South West Trains franchise
8/27
South Western franchise consultation 12/11
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
Statistics: Wrong type of people
11/33
Targets: Time to run a railway
6/6
Thameslink on time
2/46, 3/47
* Three Peaks by rail
11/78
* ticketing: rewriting the rules / Rail
3/74
Timetable challenges
8/9, 9/44
Traffic Management System procurement aborted
5/28, 6/49
Trans-Pennine Express franchise? / Bi-modes for
9/13
TPE wiring ‘un-pause’ set for autumn
9/15
* Transformation for the North
4/12, 5/48
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin opens Three Bridges depot
12/92
Transport Secretary / Patrick McLoughlin stays as
6/86
Transport vision for the North 5/16
transportdirect.info website
6/50, 7/47
Treasury triumphant
8/6
Tyne & Wear Metro modernisation progress
8/15
Valley wires funding
1/12
Wakefield Kirkgate restored
10/15
* Wales: Publicly-owned TOC on the cards
2/60, 3/46
Wales / Rolling stock challenges in
12/87
Waverley route to reopen?
6/12
Welsh government seeks franchising advice
8/12
West of England trains / Keen price for new
9/30
Windermere wires funding
1/9
Wrexham delayed again
12/22
* Wrexham? / Way forward for
3/54, 4/53, 5/50
National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering / National Training Academy for Rail:
Northampton Academy opened by Rail Minister Claire Perry
Training academy nearing completion
Netherlands:
Amsterdam to Rotterdam services / IC Direct starts
Class 186 Traxx for NS / More
concession contracts signed / New ten year
Cross-border co-operation
Delft goes underground / Railway through
Limburg shenanigans leads to changes at NS / Abellio
Sprinter EMUs / Mitsubishi traction for new CAF-built
train fleet / NS orders new
Traxx changes likely / Benelux
12/92
8/92
12/84
8/84
2/84
Supp.10/8
6/85
11/84
7/84
6/84
12/85
Network Rail:
Aberdeen – Inverness Improvement Project
11/22, 12/22
Acton wiring accelerated
5/12
Allerton depot upgrade
12/86
Alliance / Changes at South Western
7/13
Alliance / Phil Verster to be managing director for ScotRail
5/94
* Alliancing: more than the sum of the parts
5/52
*Anglia meander
10/38
Apperley / August opening for
5/22
* Aspirations: All our pomp of yesterday – Past achievements no guide for today’s industry
11/70, 12/46
austerity affordable? / Is (Railtalk)
9/6
ballast cleaner / NR buys fifth
4/21
Banbury / New depot at
4/91
Banbury signalling renewals for Siemens
8/20
Barrington Light Railway reborn
3/18, 11/60
Basingstoke Campus welcomes students
12/93
Bath / Blockades planned at
7/22
Bathampton temporary period of disruption – 18 July - 1 September 2015 / Overview:
8/56
Bicester on track
2/17
Bicester Village station renaming
4/17
Birmingham extension / Midland Metro blockade to connect
11/14
* Birmingham New Street complete
10/60, 12/46
9
* Birmingham New Street, old track
11/36, 12/47
Birmingham New Street on track for September
2/16, 3/46
Birmingham New Street sees the light
1/20, 3/46
Birmingham New Street / September opening for
8/20
Birmingham’s streets from December / Trams on
12/14
Blackpool service approved / Alliance
9/8
Blackpool wires / 2018 for
12/22
blockades / Call for more nighttime
7/8
Board / Rob Brighouse appointed to NR
9/86
Bolton Interchange takes shape
12/12
Bonus incentives
3/49
Borders driver training begins
7/18
* Borders Railway makes tracks
2/57
Borders Railway / Royal opening for
10/10
* Borders Railway up and running
9/56
Borders track laying complete
3/22
Brighton main line investment study
12/10
Bristol Temple Meads prepares for IEP
2/12
Britain / Welcome to
9/41
BTP to become E&WTP?
6/9
C-DAS on SWT: Trials begin on West of England route in the autumn
6/9
* c2c / New era for
9/69
* Class 73 – All yellow: See how they shine
7/36
* Class 14X: Blame it on the bogie
6/36, 7/45
California high-speed team / Network Rail Consulting in
Supp.8/19
Cambridge collision
1/16, 2/42, 3/49
Cannock depot approved / Rail link to
8/19
* capacity on the South Western / Boosting
5/58
Cardiff Central / New building at
10/17
Cardiff / Light rail for
1/13
Chair Network Rail / Sir Peter Hendy to
8/9
Chase line bridge work
11/22
Chelmsford revival
3/17
Chiltern reaches Oxford
11/50
Christmas engineering overrun penalties likely
3/22
Christmas works programme: NR celebrates the ones that went right2/20, 3/49
Class 92s removed from sleepers
10/90
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
Class 319s in service / ‘Northern Electrics’
4/15
Class 321 refurb / Eversholt plans
7/90
Coal decline poses challenges
9/66
coal train running please turn the lights out? / Will the last
7/20
* community: Local and regional rail / Involving the
Supp.10/1
Community Rail forges ahead
Supp.10/12
compensation on Virgin / Automatic
11/62
Consultants at the sharp end
Supp.8/7
contingency planning / ORR calls for better
3/14
Control Period 5 delivery plan: Bad times just around the corner (Railtalk) 7/6
CP5 enhancements programme in ruins
10/24
Control Period 6 infrastructure schemes: NR study proposes Bedford and Leicester
3/11
Cornish plan / Sleeper spearheads
11/8
Cranbrook takes shape
6/22
Cricklewood / GBRf moves into
10/19
crises / ORR warnings presage year of
2/26
crisis / Network Rail in
8/22
Crossrail overground section upgrade: Time is tight
8/97
Crossrail station progress
12/97
Crossrail 2 proposals unveiled
12/10
Cumnock engineering train collision
9/12
Dawlish one year on
3/20
Dawlish sea wall restored
9/20
Dawlish slip site stabilised
5/22
Deep alliance terminated
8/26
* Devolution delivering for Scotland
5/72, 6/50
devolution to routes / NR continues
12/9
Devonport engineering work / Class 70 on
1/18
Digital Railway benefit freight? / How can the
6/20
Digital Railway: Bigger than Network Rail?
11/28
10
director, network and strategy post / Jo Kaye for NR
11/86
* Double deck dilemma
5/64, 6/48
Double deck to Waterloo?
1/10
Dundee footbridge cakewalk
11/22
Dundee station revamp / Balfour Beatty for
10/22
East Anglia rail franchise: New trains not a requirement but are ‘expected’ / ‘Norwich in 90’ in next
11/14
East Coast / 140mph plan for
3/8
* East Coast main line resurgent
6/62
* East Coast main line timetable: Pathing problems ahead?
6/70, 7/44, 8/45
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
* East Coast performance revival
7/72
East Coast / Stagecoach and Virgin take Intercity
1/24
East Coast: The need for speed revived
4/26, 5/48
East Coast / Virgin-Stagecoach for
1/8
East Kent progress
2/21
East Kent resignalling delayed
5/32
East Midlands / Train lengthening plan for
3/11
East West progress
3/22
East West Rail corridors
9/11
East West Rail delay / Concern over
12/11
Easter works completed / Major
5/22
Ebbw Vale extension
6/13
Edinburgh Gateway
3/22
* EGIP gathers pace
9/50
efficiency targets / NR failed to meet
12/15
Electrification plan failures
8/94
Electrification progress: First wires on GW and EGIP projects
12/8
electrification shunted for GWML / Paused: MML and TPE
8/24
electrification un-pause: Downing Street issues a decree / Immediate 11/24
Ely blockade / Six-month
5/20
Ely double tracking proposal
4/21
enhancements delivery plan in place, says ORR / NR
12/14
enhancements programme / ‘Systematic failings’ in NR
9/17
Enhancements: We need a win
9/3, 10/49, 11/46, 11/49
Eric Wright Rail awarded Principal Contractor Licence
7/22
ETCS deal for Siemens
6/22
Farnworth / December service at
12/22
Farnworth Tunnel work begins
6/22, 9/15
Farnworth tunnelling delayed
10/22
Farringdon roof supports relined
2/21
Festive engineering meltdown
2/8
Fife capacity boost
5/22
Fife line resignalling
2/14
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
financial advice / NR seeking
7/9
Fleets: The invisible hand of the DfT (Railtalk)
1/6
Forth Bridge design / Arup for
2/92
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
Freedom of Information Act / Network Rail subject to
5/13
freight? / Who plays the political tunes for
11/18
funding / Fall in Government
10/13
Future: ‘Roads? Where we are going we don’t need roads’ / Back to the 12/34
Galashiels: Borders Rail work / Injury halts
1/20
Gatwick redevelopment presses on 8/17
Georgemas derailment
3/17
GOBLIN wiring deadline in doubt
10/20
Governance: Richard Brown appointed as special director / Changes to NR 8/9
graduates for NR / More
1/78
Great Eastern upgrades continue
7/22
Great Western Electrification cost soars / Now it’s £3 billion
12/24
GWEP cost explosion: ‘Ignore the headlines’
12/26
Great Western electrification sets a new standard of corporate incompetence / Outrageous!
12/42
GWML electrification: Hunting the frogs
10/30
Great Western Route Modernisation / Boiling frogs
9/22, 10/49
Great Western Route Modernisation / Swindon or bust: Strategy to salvage 7/3
Great Western wiring examined: Carne highlights need for design-led process
12/13
* growth: More standard class seating installed / Virgin grapples with
7/68
Harbury all Brunel’s fault?
3/32
Harbury route reopens early
4/16
Hastings speed up: Javelin plan remains on table / Call for
3/12, 4/51
Hayle station / Kee products for
2/93
* Heathrow / Rail hub for
1/63
High Output Plant System hits target / GW
7/22
Horton-in-Ribblesdale quarries
8/20, 12/20
Hull to Selby: Privately-funded wiring?
3/51
IEP cost / VTEC profile highlights
2/22
IEP testing progress
7/90
impermanent way / The ageing (Railtalk)
3/6
improvement / Collaborative
3/72
Infrastructure Commission / Chancellor George Osborne launches National
12/8
* Infrastructure: The good, the bad & the ugly
7/49, 8/44, 8/45, 9/44
innovation / Industry encourages
4/54
intermodal growth / DBS
3/17
Investment: Brave new world (Railtalk)
2/6
Investment: Consulting the sages
12/31
* investment programme: Projects drive forward / Network Rail
4/60
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49
Invitation to Tender delayed / TransPennine and Northern
1/9
Island Line to stand alone again?
10/17
Iveco vans for NR welders
1/76
Kenilworth station underway
4/18
labour supply contracts / NR
4/21
* Lancashire: Red rose resurgent
Supp.10/14
Leeds / Accessibility at
5/17
licence breach / NR fined over
9/17
London Bridge / No safety risk at
9/16
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
London Bridge progress
1/20
* London Bridge progress
2/49
LNE & East Midlands routes / Rob McIntosh appointed route
managing director
12/95
* London North Western (South) 21st century control centre
7/30
* London’s airport rail links
1/58
Low Moor / Work begins at
12/13
Manchester Piccadilly plays host to photographic exhibition: Picc of the pops
11/39
Manchester Victoria / ‘St Pancras of the north’ complete: Transport Secretary officially opens
11/12
MCB-OD crossings: Inappropriate for the main line?
6/32
Merseyrail fleet / Green light for new
11/17
Merseytravel: New trains for Liverpool
10/72
Midland and Trans-Pennine wiring ‘paused’: Great Western
project prioritised
8/8
Mobile connection consultation
7/9
mobile maintenance trains arrive on NR / Robel
10/20
model approach / A
3/73
National Networks National Policy Statement supports rail freight interchanges / New
2/19
National Railway Heritage Awards 2014: celebrating our railway heritage 1/34
National Railway Heritage Awards 2015: Restoration rewarded
12/80
Needham Market platform / Dura’s new
7/93
Network Certification Body
Supp.8/21
* Newcastle / Transport for
1/38, 2/43, 3/46
Newcourt station opens
7/12
north? / A new race to the
3/3
North Devon reopening / Study backs
8/17
North Sea – Mediterranean freight corridor extended
12/20
North Wales resignalling in CP5 / Rail Minister Claire Perry confirms
12/22
North West Electrification? / Further delays to
9/14
North West electrification programme: Wires delayed again
3/9
Northampton station opens / New
2/16
* Northern franchise: Bright future for the north
6/44, 7/45
Norton Bridge track laying
11/22
Office of Rail and Road – an opportunity or a distraction?
5/20
*
Oil prices: Good times, bad times
2/36
Old Dalby test track / UKPR for
3/92
Old Dalby test tunnels / High speed power in
8/92
Open access: Conflict or customer choice?
1/48, 2/43
Ordsall Chord decision deferred
11/9
Ordsall Chord delayed again by appeal
8/13
Ordsall Chord for Ordsall Chord
12/12
Ordsall Chord go-ahead
5/17
Oxford in October: Slightly delayed start for new service / Chiltern to
6/10
Oxford link: But worries over medium-term for varsity city / Go-ahead for Chiltern’s
8/20
Oxford Parkway freight
12/21
Parapet heights: A self-inflicted cost
11/32
Performance decline: Industry-wide PPM and right time numbers fall
6/8
performance / Driver shortages hit GTR
2/15
performance / Long distance
3/60, 4/52, 5/50
Perpetuum track deal
11/93
Policies: No jam? Bring on the hot buttered toast (Railtalk)
10/6
Port of Sunderland reconnected
3/16
Portishead branch clearance complete
6/22
Privatisation / HS1 chair Nicola Shaw considers NR
12/9
Privatisation or Nationalisation: Wheel/rail integration is key
11/6
project delivery / ‘Serious questions’ about Network Rail
7/8
rail devolution / London Assembly calls for
12/16
* Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015 / The
6/75
* Railway Political Map: Railways and Parliamentary Constituencies 2015
Supp.9/1, 10/49
* Railway privatisation: A passenger perspective
2/64
*Regional revival
10/66
‘Reputationally damaging’ challenges for Network Rail
5/13
* Research – still dead
9/36, 10/48
Reviews: Where now for Network Rail?
8/18
Rochester station / New
7/22, 12/9
Route Director changes
7/86
Route Service Directorate created
12/9
Scarborough Bridge, York, work completed
4/21
Scotland to go Lean
6/12
Scottish alliance team
6/86
Scottish freight strategy / Call for
8/19
Scottish projects / Siemens supports
9/64
Secretary of State for Transport: Hold fast to the hot potato (Railtalk)
5/6
Sentinel / LU to adopt
4/21
signalling for Chiltern / Siemens
5/22
* Signalling in crisis
3/24, 4/36, 4/37
Signalling Programme Director, Mark Southwell, resigns
6/25
Soham doubling paused
11/18
South Western franchise consultation
12/11
*South Western special
5/51
South Yorkshire tram-trains face delay
1/13
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
station investment / Local authorities drive
8/15
Station redevelopment
3/46
Statistics: Wrong type of people
11/33
Swindon – Gloucester: Glorious Golden Valley
1/22
Targets: Time to run a railway
6/6
Thameslink core TMS / Hitachi to supply
9/33
Thameslink on time
2/46, 3/47
Thameslink: Row between NR and Thames Water over compensation / Tunnel flooding hits
3/12
* Three Peaks by rail
11/78
Timetable challenges
8/9, 9/44
Todmorden curve in use at last
6/16
Traffic Management System procurement aborted
5/28, 6/49
TMS procurement: Going round in circles
6/24
Train Protection Warning System upgrade
12/30
TPWS+STM / Mors Smitt’s
6/34
TPE wiring ‘un-pause’ set for autumn
9/15
Trans-Pennine to North Wales studied
8/13
Treasury triumphant (Railtalk)
8/6
11
Trees: If you go down to the woods today
6/40
* Trent Valley triumph
11/64, 12/49
TREsa / Automatic route setting product acceptance for Hitachi’s
5/91
turn back arrangements / Lack of
3/49
Uckfield platform lengthening
9/20, 11/22
User worked crossings: Re-evaluation under way
6/30, 7/46
Wakefield Kirkgate restored
10/15
Wales / Rolling stock challenges in
12/87
Walking distances
10/74
Waterloo plans submitted
9/20
Wessex route / Skanska consortium for
3/22
West Coast ban lifted
6/11
West Coast capacity
2/45, 3/46, 5/50
West Coast Railways keeps safety certificate: ORR issues operator with Improvement Notice
7/18
West Coast Railways track access rights suspended: SPAD at Wootton Bassett
5/12
* West Country: Go west (not so) young man
8/58
Western Rail Access to Heathrow / Jacobs designing
5/92
Western Route Director / Mark Langham appointed
11/86
Wimbledon tram upgrade underway
8/15
Winchester bridge arch restored
8/20
Windermere wires funding
1/9
* Wires through history
4/66
Wrexham delayed again
12/22
‘News Front’:
1/8, 2/8, 3/8, 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8, 11/8, 12/8
‘News Front’ replies:11/49
Norway:
Infrastructure developments gather pace
Oslo Airport service / New trains for
*Tourist trains
7/85
6/85
2/76
North East Combined Authority:
Managing Director for NECA / First
1/78
O
Obituary:
Allan / Ian
Bennett / John
Carr / Ian S
Clarke / Bill
Harvey / Neil
Slatter / Bernard
8/86
7/86
5/94
7/86
8/86
3/94
Office of Rail and Road (see also Office of Rail Regulation):
Acton wiring accelerated
5/12
Blackpool / Alliance tries again for
5/17
Blackpool service approved / Alliance
9/8
blockades / Call for more nighttime
7/8
Class 230 confounds cynics
10/26
Coal decline accelerating
11/18
Digital Railway: Bigger than Network Rail?
11/28
Driver fined for safety breaches
9/12
* East Coast capacity crunch
7/24, 8/44
* East Coast main line timetable: Pathing problems ahead?
6/70, 7/44, 8/45
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
East Coast! / Welcome to
12/72
Electrification plan failures
8/94
enhancements programme in ruins / CP5
10/24
Enhancements: We need a win
9/3, 10/49, 11/46, 11/49
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
freight volume fall / Coal decline drives
7/20
freight? / Who plays the political tunes for
11/18
* freight work / Making
8/70
funding / Fall in Government
10/13
12
Great North Western Railway / Access rights granted to
10/94
Great Western Electrification cost soars / Now it’s £3 billion
12/24
GWEP cost explosion: ‘Ignore the headlines’
12/26
Great Western electrification sets a new standard of corporate incompetence / Outrageous!
12/42
Great Western Route Modernisation / Boiling frogs
9/22, 10/49
Great Western wiring examined: Carne highlights need for design-led process
12/13
Hull Trains plans bi-mode fleet
9/9
London Bridge / No safety risk at
9/16
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
Network Rail Control Period 5 delivery plan: Bad times just around
the corner (Railtalk)
7/6
NR enhancements delivery plan in place, says ORR / NR
12/14
NR enhancements programme / ‘Systematic failings’ in
9/17
NR failed to meet efficiency targets
12/15
Network Rail fined over licence breach
9/17
Network Rail in crisis
8/22
Network Rail project delivery / ‘Serious questions’ about
7/8
Network Rail / ‘Reputationally damaging’ challenges for
5/13
north? / A new race to the
6/3
Open access hotting up
9/28
* Overground / Growth for London
6/56, 7/46, 9/44
Parapet heights: A self-inflicted cost
11/32
Passenger numbers hit record levels
7/12
Privatisation or Nationalisation: Wheel/rail integration is key
11/6
‘rail on rail’ competition proposed / More
9/9
SWT plan approved
10/14, 11/49
South Western Alliance / Changes at
7/13
Targets: Time to run a railway
6/6
Third rail electrification
8/38, 9/47
Treasury triumphant
8/6
* Twitter / TOCs on
12/75
User worked crossings: Re-evaluation under way
6/30, 7/46
West Coast ban lifted
6/11
Office of Rail Passenger Services:
innovation / Industry encourages
4/54
Office of Rail Regulation (see also Office of Rail and Road):
* Alliancing: more than the sum of the parts
5/52
Anglo-Scottish plan / FirstGroup’s
4/10
cities / Serving our
4/20
Coal traffic slips again
4/21
contingency planning / ORR calls for better
3/14
crises / ORR warnings presage year of
2/26
East Coast / Stagecoach and Virgin take Intercity
1/24
East Coast / Virgin-Stagecoach for
1/8
Festive engineering meltdown
2/8
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
future / Anticipating the
5/3
Hull to Selby: Privately-funded wiring?
3/51
IEP cost / VTEC profile highlights
2/22
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49
National Passenger Survey: I can’t get no…
3/36
* Network Rail investment programme: Projects drive forward
4/60
Open access: Conflict or customer choice?
1/48, 2/43
operating costs / TOCs cover train
2/62
rail freight moved / Decline in
1/18
* Railway privatisation: A passenger perspective
2/64
* Regional growth
5/68, 6/50
roads as well / ORR takes on
5/17
* Signalling in crisis
3/24, 4/36, 4/37
West Coast open access blow for Alliance
2/14
* Wrexham? / Way forward for
3/54, 4/53, 5/50
Oxford Civic Society:
Oxford? / Light rail for
6/11
Oxford University Railway Society:
G F Fiennes: Glory days
12/3
P
‘Pan Up’:
1/38, 2/36, 3/36, 4/40, 5/38, 6/36, 7/36, 8/36, 9/36, 10/36, 11/36, 12/34
‘Pan Up’ replies:
1/46, 2/42, 3/47, 4/51, 5/49, 7/45, 9/46, 10/48, 11/48
Passenger Focus (see also Transport Focus):
Office of Rail and Road – an opportunity or a distraction?
5/20
Passenger Transport Authorities / Executives and Integrated Transport Authorities:
Altrincham opens / Gateway to
1/13
Apperley / August opening for
5/22
Back to the Future ‘Roads? Where we are going we don’t need roads’ 12/34
Birmingham extension / Midland Metro blockade to connect
11/14
Birmingham’s streets from December / Trams on
12/14
cities / Serving our
4/20
Class 507 and 508 internal refresh / Merseyrail
3/87
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
* Lancashire: Red rose resurgent
Supp.10/14
Manchester Metrolink M5000 milestone
8/91
Manchester Metrolink Second City Crossing
1/13, 12/15
Manchester Metrolink summer closure
7/16
Manchester Metrolink trams to Trafford / Funding
6/16
Manchester Ordsall Chord delayed again by appeal
8/13
Manchester tunnel blues
2/43, 3/46, 5/50
Manchester Victoria / ‘St Pancras of the north’ complete: Transport Secretary officially opens
11/12
Merseyrail as Managing Director / Jan Chaudhry to lead
6/86
Merseyrail fleet / Green light for new
11/17
Merseytravel: New trains for Liverpool
10/72
* Newcastle / Transport for
1/38, 2/43, 3/46
* Northern franchise: Bright future for the north
6/44, 7/45
Nottingham Express Transit Phase Two lines open
10/16
Nottingham NET Phase Two nearing completion
8/14
Ordsall Chord decision deferred
11/9
Portishead branch clearance complete
6/22
* Regional growth
5/68, 6/50
*Regional revival
10/66
* Rolling stock reshuffle driving May timetable amendments
5/24
Sheffield – Rotherham tram-train
8/91, 12/88
South Yorkshire tram-trains face delay
1/13
* ticketing: rewriting the rules / Rail
3/74
* traincare depots in Britain / A to Z of
Supp.1/14
Trans-Pennine to North Wales studied
8/13
* Transformation for the North
4/12, 5/48
Tyne & Wear Metro modernisation progress
8/15
West Midlands / Connecting the
12/64
‘People’:
Poland:
1/78, 2/94, 3/94, 4/94, 5/94, 6/86, 7/86, 8/86, 9/86, 10/86, 11/86, 12/95
PKP Cargo expands
PKP Cargo / Vectrons for
PKP Intercity / Privatisation for
PKP Intercity / Two new diesel types for
services / PR withdraws long distance
tube policing plans / Night
Warsaw / New outer-suburban fleet for
Portugal:
CP Cargo sold
4/88
12/85
12/85
10/84
11/85
7/11
8/84
10/84
R
Rail Accident Investigation Branch:
Bryn on-track machine runaway / RAIB investigates
Cumnock engineering train collision
Eurotunnel Shuttle design
Knorr-Bremse RailServices
SPAD at Wootton Bassett: WCR track access rights suspended
User worked crossings: Re-evaluation under way
2/21
9/12
3/47, 4/53
Supp.1/29
5/12
6/30, 7/46
Rail Delivery Group:
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
Rail Delivery Group Chief Executive / Paul Plummer appointed as
10/86
* Research – still dead
9/36, 10/48
Statistics: Wrong type of people
11/33
‘Rail Freight’:
1/24, 2/18, 3/16, 4/20, 5/20, 6/20, 7/20, 8/18, 9/18, 10/18, 11/18, 12/20
Rail Freight Group:
Cars by rail – supporting a British success
cities / Serving our
Coal decline poses challenges
coal train running please turn the lights out? / Will the last
efficiency – where next? / Rail freight Election: 2015 – Let’s face the music and dance
European trade is vital
Eurotunnel lorry shuttle design review / RFG calls for
* freight work / Making
infrastructure – a role for rail / Building Britain’s
investment / Call for
Network Rail? / Where now for
Office of Rail and Road – an opportunity or a distraction?
ports / The changing face of northern
12/20
4/20
9/66
7/20
1/18
2/18
10/18
4/85
8/70
3/16
3/16
8/18
5/20
9/18
Railway Heritage:
* Borders Railway looking back and forward / The
9/60
East Coast: The need for speed revived
4/26, 5/48
Barrington Light Railway
3/18, 11/60
Bodmin service by FGW?
7/13
Class 87 takes charge of sleeper
6/13
Class 89 could return to main line use
4/91
Colour-Rail goes online
2/92
Dawlish camping coach landmark under threat
12/44
Esk Valley services / Funding to double
8/13, 9/47
Forth Railway Bridge: Spitfire races in
4/3, 5/49
luxury trains / More
5/86
National Railway Heritage Awards 2014: celebrating our railway heritage 1/34
National Railway Heritage Awards 2015: Restoration rewarded
12/80
Ordsall Chord go-ahead
5/17
* privatisation / Twenty years of partial
9/74
* seats: Where did it all go wrong? / Train
4/44, 5/48, 6/50
Swanage delay
3/10
Swindon – Gloucester: Glorious Golden Valley
1/22
* Trade unions: A score draw
4/72
West Coast Railways keeps safety certificate: ORR issues operator with improvement notice
7/18
* Wires through history
4/66
Wolverton works plans submitted
10/14
Rail North:
Franchise devolution deal
Rail Research UK (RRUK):
* Research – still dead
Rail Safety & Standards Board:
depot personnel protection system: The safe zone / Zonegreen’s
European Train Control System examined
5/16
9/36, 10/48
Supp.1/31
5/22
13
*
*
fatal accidents for eighth year running / No
franchising achieved? / What has
impermanent way / The ageing (Railtalk)
improvement / The drive for
innovation / Industry encourages
Research – still dead
Train fleets web-based system: Got no room for RAVERS
User worked crossings: Re-evaluation under way
9/13
2/72
3/6
Supp.1/13
4/54
9/36, 10/48
7/9
6/30, 7/46
Rail Supply Group:
* Aspirations: All our pomp of yesterday – Past achievements no guide
for today’s industry
11/70, 12/46
Railtex 2015: RSG adds its weight to
5/76
Rail Unions:
customer aspirations with new technology / Meeting
8/48, 9/44
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
GDL agree end to long running strikes in Germany / DB and union
2/83
IEP catering row continues
2/13
Job cuts at DRS: Decline in coal traffic to blame, says company
8/18
Night Tube start deferred
10/13
rail industry for 2015 / Restructured French
2/82
*Regional revival
10/66
* Trade unions: A score draw
4/72
Railfreight:
Barrington freight workings begin
9/18
Barrington Light Railway reborn
3/18, 11/60
Cannock depot approved / Rail link to
8/19
Coal decline accelerating
11/18
Coal decline drives freight volume fall
7/20
Coal decline poses challenges
9/66
coal relinquishes crown / King
10/18
Coal traffic slips again
4/21
coal traffic to blame, says company / Job cuts at DBS: Decline in
8/18
coal train running please turn the lights out? / Will the last
7/20
Digital Railway benefit freight? / How can the
6/20
Doncaster chord impact studied
11/19, 12/47
* East Coast main line timetable: Pathing problems ahead?
6/70, 7/44, 8/45
Ely blockade / Six-month
5/20
Fawley refinery finale
5/21
Felixstowe / New cranes at
7/20
Felixstowe – Nuneaton fails in EU bid
10/19
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
freight moved / Decline in rail
1/18
Freight under the cosh (Railtalk)
12/6
freight? / Who plays the political tunes for
11/18
* freight work / Making
8/70
Horton-in-Ribblesdale quarries connected
12/20
MoD service from Bicester to Didcot: Humble Royals
5/21
Network Rail project delivery / ‘Serious questions’ about
7/8
Oxford Parkway freight
12/21
ports / The changing face of northern
9/18
Project Wareham: Purbeck ballast drop
6/22
Scottish freight strategy / Call for
8/19
Snetterton freight deliveries resume
9/19
Spain – China freight test
2/81
Sundon Rail Freight Interchange planned next to MML
7/21
Transport for the North strategy for the north
10/19
Railfuture South Wales:
Welsh government seeks franchising advice
‘Railtalk’:
8/12
1/6, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6, 10/6, 11/6, 12/6
‘Railtalk’ replies:5/49
Railway Children:
Donations: Double your money
* Three Peaks by rail
11/76
11/78
Railway Heritage Trust:
Wakefield Kirkgate restored
10/15
Railway Industry Association:
future / Anticipating the
Technical Director / Stephen Collicott new RIA
5/3
7/86
Railway Study Association:
Chief Executive / Alex Warner new RSA
3/94
‘Railway Study Association events’:
1/14, 2/14, 3/14, 4/14, 5/14, 6/14, 7/14, 8/14, 9/14, 10/14, 11/14, 12/14
Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs):
Agility Trains: IEP charges update
2/26
Angel Technologies / Australian firm AMP takes over
10/92
Angel Trains for sale
4/17
Class 142, 143 and 144 Pacer politics / Cameron and Osborne complicate
1/26, 2/43, 3/46, 5/50, 11/49
* Class 14X: Blame it on the bogie
6/36, 7/45
* Devolution delivering for Scotland
5/72, 6/50
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
Eversholt plans Class 321 refurb
7/90
Eversholt Rail Group sells wagon fleet
4/20
Eversholt: West of England trains / Keen price for new
9/30
Fleets: The invisible hand of the DfT (Railtalk)
1/6
* Golden Spanner Awards 2014: Rolling stock engineers drive for reliability
Supp.1/3
Merseytravel: New trains for Liverpool
10/72
* Oil prices: Good times, bad times
2/34
Passenger information liberation
8/36
Porterbrook Class 144e evolution: She sells sanctuary
8/38
Porterbrook Class 144e may find home in Wales
8/91
Porterbrook: Class 158 ZF transmission technology
Supp.1/28
Porterbrook Class 319 discussions
1/74
Porterbrook Class 319 upgrade underway
1/75
Porterbrook Class 323s / Birmingham plan for
8/90
Porterbrook Class 387s on order / More
12/86
Porterbrook: Class 387/2s Electrostars for GATEX
1/10
Porterbrook’s new Commercial Director / Olivier Andre
4/94
* Train design today / Tomorrow’s train
7/39, 9/46
Train fleets web-based system: Got no room for RAVERS
7/9
TPWS+STM / Mors Smitt’s
6/34
‘TransPennine 9’: Pacer elimination / McLoughlin imposes Northern
4/30
Wolverton / KB stamps its mark on
7/76
Romania:
cross-border service to Moldova / New local
Safety case breaches lead to network suspension
Transmontana locos / More
11/84
5/86
12/85
Russia:
8/85
1/70
6/82
2/85
7/84
8/85
10/85
Desiro-Rus EMU maintenance deal / Siemens wins 40-year
EU services cut back / Russia to
Go Rail suspends Estonia – Russia trains
St Petersburg to get airport link in time for World Cup?
Strizh enters service
TEM 19 locos for RZD / Gas-powered
Yakunin leaves Russian Railways / Vladimir
S
Signalling & Telecommunications:
Ashford / Funding for ETCS at
14
9/20
Banbury signalling renewals for Siemens
8/20
C-DAS on SWT: Trials begin on West of England route in the autumn
6/9
Chiltern / Siemens signalling for
5/22
Christmas engineering overrun penalties likely
3/22
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
* crisis / Signalling in
3/24, 4/36, 4/37
Dawlish one year on
3/20
Digital Railway benefit freight? / How can the
6/20
Digital Railway: Bigger than Network Rail?
11/28
* East Coast main line resurgent
6/62
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
East Kent resignalling delayed
5/32
European Train Control System compatibility / Mors Smitt leading on
6/93
ETCS deal for Siemens
6/22
ETCS examined
5/22
Fife capacity boost
5/22
Fife line resignalling
2/14
* Growth at Grand Central
4/56
* HS2: A railway for 2100
12/54
HS2: A very busy railway
12/57
* Infrastructure: The good, the bad & the ugly
7/49, 8/44, 8/45, 9/44
Investment: Brave new world (Railtalk)
2/6
* investment programme: Projects drive forward / Network Rail
4/60
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49
* London North Western (South) 21st century control centre
7/30
London Underground sub-surface signalling twice the price and four years late
5/34
MCB-OD crossings: Inappropriate for the main line?
6/32
Mobile connection consultation
7/9
Network Rail project delivery / ‘Serious questions’ about
7/8
North Wales resignalling in CP5 / Rail Minister Claire Perry confirms
12/22
Northern Line Upgrade 1
6/52
Passenger information liberation
8/36
Scottish projects / Siemens supports
9/64
SPAD at Wootton Bassett: WCR track access rights suspended
5/12
SSL resignalling to cost £760 million
9/32
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
stations / Technology boon: Helping staff at lightly-staffed
3/70
* Swindon first: Other GW progress anybody’s bet
8/50, 9/44
Thameslink core TMS / Hitachi to supply
9/33
TMS procurement: Going round in circles
6/24
Traffic Management System procurement aborted
5/28, 6/49
Train Protection & Warning System upgrade
12/30
TPWS+STM / Mors Smitt’s
6/34, 12/16
* Twitter / TOCs on
12/75
Victoria Line / Remote condition monitoring for
2/93
Video Assist Ticket Vending Machines / ATW evaluates
10/17
Wrexham delayed again
12/22
Slovakia:
Class 753 diesels for passenger services / Rebuilt
competitors on one route / Four
Free travel
8/85
3/84
3/85
Slovenia:
Electrification (and re-electrification) progresses
11/85
South East Local Enterprise Partnership:
Ashford / Funding for ETCS at
Spain:
high-speed line opens / Single-track
Talgo IPO oversubscribed
Staffordshire Alliance:
* Staffordshire / Success story for
Sweden:
Coradia Nordics for Skånetrafiken / More
9/20
11/85
7/85
7/62, 8/46
3/85
MTR Express starts services
*Tourist trains
Switzerland:
BLS Cargo / BLS buys back
LION programme nearly complete
6/84
2/76
2/85
10/85
T
‘Trackwatch’:
1/68, 2/90, 3/88, 4/24, 5/88, 6/88, 7/88, 8/88, 9/88, 10/88, 11/88, 12/90
‘Trackwatch’ replies:11/49
Traction & Rolling Stock:
Abellio Greater Anglia Mk 3 refurb progress
6/90
* Aspirations: All our pomp of yesterday – Past achievements no guide for today’s industry
11/70, 12/46
Brush Traction: Locomotive revival
Supp.4/8
* capacity on the South Western / Boosting
5/58
Central Line fleet / New traction for
3/31
* Class 68: The class of 68
3/38, 4/53
* Class 73 – All yellow: See how they shine
7/36
* Class 73 – Prime number
5/38, 6/50
Class 142, 143 and 144 Pacer politics / Cameron and Osborne complicate
1/26, 2/43, 3/46, 5/50, 11/49
* Class 14X: Blame it on the bogie
6/36, 7/45
Class 144e evolution: She sells sanctuary
8/38
“ Class 158: Scenic champion
11/40, 12/38, 12/48, 12/49
Class 230 confounds cynics
10/26
Class 230: Shooter misses foot
10/36
Class 319s in service / ‘Northern Electrics’
4/15
Class 321 ‘Renatus’ Project: Royal opening at Doncaster
10/63
Class 387s debut on Thameslink
1/74
Class 390 Pendolinos / Health checks for
2/86
Class 700 progress
5/18
Class 700 Thameslink fleet takes shape
2/54
* Class 800: Hitachi’s first Intercity Express
1/51
Class 800 IEP bi-mode limitations
12/28
Class 800 IEP bi-modes exceeding expectations
11/90
Class 800 IEP / Kobe shapes for
1/76
Class 800 IEP on the move / First
2/12
Class 800 series / Cab design in
Supp.8/12
Class AT300 IEP bi-mode performance conundrum / West of England
5/30
Class AT300 trains for South West: HSTs to be replaced by IEP variant / New5/10
Class AT300 trains / Keen price for new West of England
9/30
Corrosion: Bakerloo fleet suffers
6/26
current collection / Brecknell Willis world leaders in
Supp.4/14
D train on Gospel Oak – Barking line?
2/89
D78 stock hybrid?
1/47
DMU power train specialists / LH Group the
Supp.4/12
Docklands Light Railway New Train
8/30
* Doncaster: Continued growth at ‘The Plant’
Supp.4/4
* Double deck dilemma
5/64, 6/48
Eurostar’s e-320 Velaro raises the bar on quality
1/28, 2/30
FGW HST Mk 3 conversion progress
4/90
* Golden Spanner Awards 2014: Rolling stock engineers drive for reliability
Supp.1/3
* HS2: A railway for 2100
12/54
improvement / The drive for
Supp.1/13
Independently Powered EMU: Celling out
4/42
innovation / Industry encourages
4/54
Interior design
1/46, 2/43
London Overground EMUs: Bombardier triumphs
8/31
London Underground Clayton diesel hydraulic rebuilds
4/40
longitudinal seating: Sideways at speed
1/47
Mk 3 upgrade begins / AGA
2/88
Pacer elimination / McLoughlin imposes Northern
4/30
* performance and maintenance / Train
Supp.1/1
Rolling stock upgrades central to Northern franchise
4/34
15
*
*
*
seat succeed in the UK rail market? / Quantum leap: Can a
seats: Where did it all go wrong? / Train
servicing in the 21st century / The pipes and drums: Train
Swindon first: Other GW progress anybody’s bet
Train design today / Tomorrow’s train:
Tram OLE project
Wabtec Rail Scotland / Transformation at
Wolverton / KB stamps its mark on
Zefiro: Italy’s new super fast train
5/42
4/44, 5/48, 6/50
1/42
8/50, 9/44, 10/94
7/39, 9/46
3/92
Supp.4/10
7/76
12/66
Train Engineering Service Companies (TESCOS):
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
servicing in the 21st century / The pipes and drums: Train
1/42
Train fleets web-based system: Got no room for RAVERS
7/9
* traincare depots in Britain / A to Z of
Supp.1/14
Train Operating Companies (TOCs) / Association of Train Operating Companies
(ATOC):
Anglia franchise shortlist
7/11
Arriva / Mobile ticketing for 8/92
ATOC as Managing Director, Customer Experience / Jacqueline Starr to join 8/87, 9/44
ATOC Chief Executive / Paul Plummer appointed as
10/86
austerity affordable? / Is (Railtalk)
9/6
Bicester on track
2/17
Blackpool service approved / Alliance
9/8
Britain / Welcome to
9/41
Class 43 HST delay expected / Scottish
3/11
Class 43 HSTs transferred north of the border / Phil Verster confident to 10/91
Class 142, 143 and 144 Pacer politics / Cameron and Osborne complicate
1/26, 2/43, 3/46, 5/50, 11/4
* Class 158: Scenic champion
11/40, 12/38, 12/48, 12/49
Class 170s for TransPennine? / Southern
10/91
Class 319 upgrade underway
1/75
Class 319s enter service / LM
10/91
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
Class 321 refurb / Eversholt plans
7/90
Class 387s on order / More Porterbrook
12/86
* community: Local and regional rail / Involving the
Supp.10/1
Community Rail forges ahead
Supp.10/12
Connections: How I didn’t get to Newton Aycliffe
10/32
crises / ORR warnings presage year of
2/26
Digital Railway: Bigger than Network Rail?
11/28
East Anglia rail franchise: New trains not a requirement but are ‘expected’ / ‘Norwich in 90’ in next
11/14
* East Coast capacity crunch
7/24, 8/44
* East Coast main line timetable: Pathing problems ahead?
6/70, 7/44, 8/45
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
* East Coast performance revival
7/72
East Coast! / Welcome to
12/72
electrification un-pause: Downing Street issues a decree / Immediate 11/24
engineers is outstripping supply. No wonder / Let my people go. Demand for railway
12/40
European Train Control System examined
5/22
Farnworth Tunnel work begins
6/22
Festive engineering meltdown
2/8
* Finances 2013-14: The railway success story
7/56
FirstGroup as head of Rail Division / Steve Montgomery rejoins
11/86
FirstGroup / Wolfhart Hauser new Chairman for
4/94
Fleets: The invisible hand of the DfT (Railtalk)
1/6
* franchising achieved? / What has
2/72
funding / Fall in Government
10/13
Future: ‘Roads? Where we are going we don’t need roads’ / Back to the 12/34
* Golden Spanner Awards 2014: Rolling stock engineers drive for reliability
Supp.1/3
* Golden Whistles Awards: ‘Whistles’ reward punctual operators
3/62, 4/51
Great North Western Railway / Access rights granted to
10/94
* Growth at Grand Central
4/56
16
* growth: More standard class seating installed / Virgin grapples with
7/68
Harbury all Brunel’s fault?
3/32
IEP / Bike storage units for
7/92
IEP catering row continues
2/13
IEP cost / VTEC profile highlights
2/22
IEP deliveries / Mechan makes quartet of
Supp.1/30
IEP depots on line in 2015
Supp.1/27
impermanent way / The ageing (Railtalk)
3/6
improvement / Collaborative
3/72
improvement / The drive for
Supp.1/13
Innovating for a better railway
8/64
Investment: The mañana railway (Railtalk)
4/6, 5/49
licence breach / NR fined over
9/17
loco-hauled services on the cards / More
12/88
London Bridge / No safety risk at
9/16
London Luton Airport / Better rail links for
Supp.8/22
London Overground concession / Four bidders for
8/16
* London Overground / Growth for
6/56, 7/46, 9/44
* London’s airport rail links
1/58
Merseytravel: New trains for Liverpool
10/72
National Passenger Survey: I can’t get no…
3/36
Network Rail Control Period 5 delivery plan: Bad times just around the corner (Railtalk)
7/6
Network Rail in crisis
8/22
Network Rail project delivery / ‘Serious questions’ about
7/8
north? / A new race to the
6/3
* north / Bright future for the
6/44, 7/45
* Oil prices: Good times, bad times
2/34
Open access: Conflict or customer choice?
1/48, 2/43
Open access hotting up
9/28
operating costs / TOCs cover train
2/62
Oxford / Chiltern reaches
11/50
Passenger information liberation
8/36
Passenger numbers hit record levels
7/12
Passenger satisfaction falls: London and South East suffers in latest survey 8/11
Performance decline: Industry-wide PPM and right time numbers fall
6/8
performance / Long distance
3/60, 4/52, 5/50
Policies: No jam? Bring on the hot buttered toast (Railtalk)
10/6
* privatisation: A passenger perspective / Railway
2/64
Privatisation or Nationalisation: Wheel/rail integration is key
11/6
* privatisation / Twenty years of partial
9/74
rail devolution / London Assembly calls for
12/16
‘rail on rail’ competition proposed / More
9/9
* Railway Industry Innovation Awards 2015 / The
6/75
* Regional growth
5/68, 6/50
*Regional revival
10/66
* Research – still dead
9/36, 10/48
Rolling stock cascade plan
3/9, 5/9
* Rolling stock reshuffle driving May timetable amendments
5/24
Rolling stock upgrades central to Northern franchise
4/34
Royal train at Dawlish sea wall
5/90
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
Stagecoach and Virgin take Intercity East Coast
1/24
Targets: Time to run a railway (Railtalk)
6/6
Thameslink on time
2/46, 3/47
* Three Peaks by rail
11/78
ticketing inconsistencies / Conference highlights
2/85
* ticketing: rewriting the rules / Rail
3/74
Timetable challenges
8/9, 9/44
* Timetable change December 2015: Thameslink transition
11/52
* Train design today / Tomorrow’s train
7/39, 9/46
Train fleets web-based system: Got no room for RAVERS
7/9
* traincare depots in Britain / A to Z of
Supp.1/14
Trees: If you go down to the woods today
6/40
* Trent Valley triumph
11/64, 12/49
* Twitter / TOCs on
12/75
Uckfield to Lewes
2/45
Video Assist Ticket Vending Machines / ATW evaluates
10/17
Wakefield Kirkgate restored
10/15
* Wales: Public-owned TOC on the cards
2/60, 3/46
Walking distances
10/74
West Coast capacity
2/45, 3/46, 5/50
West Coast Railways keeps safety certificate: ORR issues operator with Improvement Notice
7/18
Wolverton / KB stamps its mark on
7/76
Worcestershire plans approved: Passing loop proposed on Cotswold route
10/15, 11/49
Abellio Greater Anglia:
Class 37s soon on AGA
6/91
Class 153 refurb
3/87
Class 317 refurb progress / AGA
7/90
Class 321 refurb plans
9/91
Doncaster / HRH The Princess Royal opens Wabtec’s new workshop at 10/63
London Overground expands
7/10, 8/46
Mk 3 in service / Refurbished AGA
3/87
Mk 3 refurb progress / AGA
6/90
Mk 3 upgrade begins / AGA
2/88
‘Pretendolino’ set / AGA leases
1/75
Alliance Rail Holdings:
Blackpool service approved
9/8
East Coast main line capacity crunch
7/24
north? / A new race to the
6/3
Open access – Conflict or customer choice?
1/48, 2/43
West Coast open access blow for Alliance
2/14
Arriva Trains Wales:
airport paths / ATW wins
12/13
chefs / Reprieve for ATW on-board
1/12
D-Train trial proposed for GW
7/13
Ebbw Vale extension
6/13
loco haulage on ATW / Summer
9/13
loco-hauled diagram / ATW starts second
2/89
Rolling stock challenges in Wales
12/87
Video Assist Ticket Vending Machines / ATW evaluates
10/17
* Wrexham? / Way forward for
3/54, 4/53, 5/50
c2c:
Class 357/3s / c2c upgraded trains
9/91
Commercial Director for c2c / Clare McCaffrey appointed as
8/87
Engineering Director / Dan Barrett joins c2c as
12/95
* Franchise: New era for c2c
9/69
Caledonian Sleepers:
Caledonian Sleeper sets off
5/14, 7/47
Class 87 takes charge of sleeper
6/13
Class 92s removed from sleepers
10/90
* Devolution delivering for Scotland
5/72, 6/50
electric locos for Sleeper ECS / Vintage
3/86
fleet update / Caledonian Sleeper
5/90, 7/47
sleeper carriages / 200 defects on
12/86
Sleeper design contracts
2/92
Chiltern Railways:
Banbury / New depot at
4/91
Bicester on track
2/17
Bicester Village station renaming
4/17
* Class 68: The class of 68
3/38, 4/53
Class 168/3 / BIOX
11/91
East west rail corridors
9/11
future / Anticipating the
5/3
* London North Western (South) 21st century control centre
7/30
managing director / Dave Penney takes over as
12/95
Managing Director Rob Brighouse to leave Chiltern
8/87
Oxford / Chiltern reaches
11/50
Oxford in October: Slightly delayed start for new service / Chiltern to
6/10
Oxford link: But worries over medium-term for varsity city / Go-ahead for Chiltern’s
8/20
Oxford Parkway line opened by Prime Minister David Cameron
12/11
Oxford timetable: Peak loco-hauled services to London planned / Chiltern unveils
8/11
signalling for Chiltern / Siemens
5/22
CrossCountry:
Cambridge collision
1/16, 2/42, 3/49
East Coast (see also Virgin Trains East Coast):
Cambridge collision
1/16, 2/42, 3/49
East Coast: Sentimental journey
1/3
State operator bows out
4/9
East Coast Trains Ltd:
Anglo-Scottish plan / FirstGroup’s
4/10
East Midland Trains:
Barrow Hill rail ale tour
3/86
Class 43 HST solution sought
11/91
direct award to 2018: Stagecoach to pay £150 million premium / EMT 11/17
Managing Director / Jake Kelly takes over as
2/94
Market Harborough realignment leads winning rail bids / MML win in new growth deals:
3/10, 4/52
Midland and Trans-Pennine wiring ‘paused’: Great Western project prioritised
8/8
Winter wonderland
2/34
Work experience initiative launched
11/89
Eurostar (see Channel Tunnel)
First Great Western (see also Great Western Railway):
Bath / Blockades planned at
7/22
Bathampton temporary period of disruption – 18 July - 1 September 2015 / Overview:
8/56
challenge / A Great Western
3/71
Class 57 fails on sleeper train at Exeter
2/89
Class 165 air-cooling: FGW tries to be cool
8/32
Class 387s for FGW
3/9
Class 387/3s? / IPEMU
9/90
* Class 800: Hitachi’s first Intercity Express
1/51
Class AT300 trains for South West: HSTs to be replaced by IEP variant / New5/10
Community Rail Partnerships: Working with young people
Supp.10/10
customer aspirations with new technology / Meeting
8/48, 9/44
D-Train trial proposed for GW
7/13
Depot changes ahead
5/9
Direct award for FGW
5/8
* Great Western / In focus:
8/47, 9/44
Great Western Railway lives again: Rebranding harks back to days of Brunel
5/10
Great Western Route Modernisation / Swindon or bust: Strategy to salvage
7/3
Independently Powered EMUs to Bedwyn?
7/13, 9/44
IEP bi-mode performance conundrum / West of England
5/30
IEPs / Drivers to control doors on
5/9
IEPs for FGW? / More
3/9
loco haulage / Summer
7/13
Mk 3 conversion progress / FGW
4/90
Newcourt station opens
7/12
Pullman pride
8/3
Pullman to Cardiff
2/3
*Riviera boost
Supp.10/3
Rolling stock cascade plan
5/9
South West franchise?
3/8
Stoke Gifford depot milestone
3/92
* Swindon first: Other GW progress anybody’s bet
8/50, 9/44
Swindon – Gloucester: Glorious Golden Valley
1/22
Travelling Chef axed
1/12
* West Country: Go west (not so) young man
8/58
West of England trains / Keen price for new
9/30
First Hull Trains:
bi-mode fleet / Hull Trains plans
9/9
Contract: Three more years for Hull Trains
3/8
Hull to Selby: Privately-funded wiring?
3/51
First ScotRail (see also ScotRail):
Borders line takes off
11/15
Class 43 HSTs transferred north of the border / Phil Verster confident to 10/91
Class 158s for scenic Scotland / Upgraded
10/91
First TransPennine:
Bi-modes for TPE?
9/13
17
Class 156s to Barrow
3/87
Class 170s for TransPennine? / Southern
10/91
Direct award for TPE
5/17
ITTs delayed
1/9
Midland and Trans-Pennine wiring ‘paused’: Great Western project prioritised8/8
Rolling stock reshuffle in the north
2/10, 3/49
* Transformation for the North
4/12, 5/48
Windermere wires funding
1/9
Gatwick Express (see Thameslink)
Grand Central:
Blackpool / Alliance tries again for
5/17
* Growth at Grand Central
4/56
Moustaches on trains: Class 43 livery
1/45
Great Northern:
Class 700 delay: Class 365s may stay longer on the patch / Great Northern
8/90
Great Western Railway (see also First Great Western):
Class 43 HST reaches Buckfastleigh
12/87
Community rail boost
11/3
Great Western Railway reborn
11/9
Old Oak / New station for
12/62
Sleeper spearheads Cornish plan: Birley’s rail capabilities
11/8
Worcestershire plans approved: Passing loop proposed on Cotswold route
10/15, 11/49
Heathrow Express:
gap / No more minding the
6/93
London Midland:
Class 319 failures / LM
12/87
Class 319s enter service / LM
10/91
Class 319s / LM to take on
6/91
* Trent Valley triumph
11/64, 12/49
London Overground [LOROL] (see London)
Merseyrail (see Passenger Transport Authorities / Executives)
Northern:
Allerton depot upgrade
12/86
Blackpool service split
9/13
Class 142 Pacers could be withdrawn in 2017 / Rolling stock cascade plan: First
3/9
Class 144e evolution: She sells sanctuary
8/38
Class 319 electrics unveiled / Northern
3/87
Class 319s in May / More Northern
5/90
Class 319s in service / ‘Northern Electrics’
4/15
Class 323s / Birmingham plan for
8/90
Cumbrian collection
7/79
DMUs: Northern’s little Flirt
8/33
Esk Valley services / Funding to double
8/13, 9/47
ITTs delayed
1/9
* Lancashire: Red rose resurgent
Supp.10/14
Liverpool – Wigan electrics progress
6/16, 7/47
Manchester Victoria / Electrics welcomed to
7/18
Manchester Victoria / ‘St Pancras of the north’ complete: Transport Secretary officially opens
11/12
* Northern franchise: Bright future for the north
6/44, 7/45
Onboard info trial success
3/92
Pacer elimination / McLoughlin imposes Northern
4/30
Settle haulage on Sundays?
3/86
Todmorden curve in use at last
6/16
Trans-Pennine Express franchise? / Bi-modes for
9/13
TPE wiring ‘un-pause’ set for autumn
9/15
* Transformation for the North
4/12, 5/48
Windermere wires funding
1/9
ScotRail (see also First ScotRail):
Abellio takes over at ScotRail
5/15
Borders driver training begins
7/18
Class 156s / Toilet tanks for Scottish
12/88
Class 334 progress / ScotRail
12/87
Class AT200 EMU deal signed / ScotRail
4/17
fleet plan / ScotRail
4/18
Scottish alliance team
6/86
18
Stranraer through trains reprieved
12/9
South West Trains:
Alliance / Changes at South Western
7/13
Alliance / Phil Verster to be managing director for
5/94
* Alliancing: more than the sum of the parts
5/52
Basingstoke Campus welcomes students
12/93
C-DAS on SWT: Trials begin on West of England route in the autumn
6/9
* capacity on the South Western / Boosting
5/58
Class 158 ZF transmission technology
Supp.1/28
Class 455 conversions late
9/91
Class 707 taking shape / First
12/87
Cranbrook takes shape
6/22
Deep alliance terminated
8/26
* Double deck dilemma
5/64, 6/48
Double deck to Waterloo?
1/10
franchise amendment / £50 million for SWT
5/17
franchise consultation / South Western
12/11
franchise? / South West
3/8
franchise / South West Trains 8/27
Island Line to stand alone again?
10/17
*South Western special
5/51
Swanage delay
3/10
West of England services plan approved / SWT additional
10/14, 11/49
Southeastern:
Charing Cross / Fire closes
1/10
Class 319s: Extra stock needed to ease crush / Southeastern bids for 7/54, 8/46
Class 375 first class change
11/91
Class 376 EMUs handrail job for ESG
11/93
Class 395 The Victoria Cross poppy livery
1/45
Hastings speed up: Javelin plan remains on table / Call for
3/12, 4/51
spring clean / Southeastern’s
6/91
Traka iFobs for Southeastern
1/77
Southern Railway:
Class 170s for TransPennine? / Southern
10/91
Class 377 refurb / Southern
3/86
Class 455 separation near Battersea Park
11/91
Class 455s / Stewarts Lane takes on
2/89
Thameslink:
Class 319 upgrade underway
1/75
Class 365 in service / First accessible
4/90
Class 387s could be battery powered
9/90
Class 387s debut on Thameslink
1/74
Class 387s in service / All GTR
8/91
Class 387/2s Electrostars for GATEX
1/10
Class 700 job for Liebherr
11/93
Class 700 progress
5/18
Class 700 reaches UK / First Thameslink
9/90
Class 700 Thameslink fleet takes shape
2/54
DfT in pitiful cover-up
1/32
Driver shortages hit GTR performance
2/15
Festive engineering meltdown
2/8
fleets: Overcoming operational challenges / Introducing new
3/68
* London Bridge / Open heart surgery at
10/51
Oyster and contactless Pay as you go to Gatwick
12/11
smart card expanded / GTR’s ‘The Key’
11/17
Uckfield platform lengthening underway
9/20, 11/22
Virgin Trains East Coast (see also East Coast):
Class 43 HSTs / New engines for VTEC
12/88
* Class 800: Hitachi’s first Intercity Express
1/51
* East Coast capacity crunch
7/24, 8/44
* East Coast main line resurgent
6/62
East Coast operation / Virgin launches
4/8
* East Coast performance a catastrophe for Thameslink? 6/66, 7/44, 8/44, 9/47
* East Coast special: A Modern Railways special report
6/61
East Coast: The need for speed revived
4/26, 5/48
East Coast! / Welcome to
12/72
fleet plan investment / VTEC’s 4/10
Franchise update by David Horne MD: Mobilising East Coast
7/41
InterCity 225 livery: Virgin in vinyl
4/10
IC225’s late blaze of glory
2/24
Managing Director at East Coast / David Horne to be
2/94
* performance revival / East Coast
7/72
Rebranding progress
9/91
senior management team / Virgin’s East Coast
3/94, 4/94
Stagecoach and Virgin take Intercity East Coast
1/24
Virgin-Stagecoach for East Coast
1/8
Virgin Trains (West Coast):
Class 390 Pendolino conversion progress
5/90
Class 390 Pendolino coupler caution / Virgin
11/91
Class 390 Pendolino H4 overhaul begins
2/89
Class 390 Pendolino overhaul / Lifting equipment for
5/93
Class 390 Pendolinos / Health checks for
2/86
compensation on Virgin / Automatic
11/62
dairy deal / Virgin’s
4/92
* growth: More standard class seating installed / Virgin grapples with
7/68
Managing Director / Phil Whittingham new West Coast
3/94
* Staffordshire / Success story for
7/62, 8/46
* Trent Valley triumph
11/64, 12/49
West Coast Railways:
ban lifted / West Coast
6/11
SPAD at Wootton Bassett: WCR track access rights suspended
5/12
Transport Focus (see also Passenger Focus):
East Coast! / Welcome to
12/72
Passenger satisfaction falls: London and South East suffers in latest survey 8/11
* Twitter / TOCs on
12/75
Transport for the North:
electrification un-pause: Downing Street issues a decree / Immediate
Strategy for the North
Transport vision for the North
Transport Scotland:
* Borders Railway up and running
* Devolution delivering for Scotland
* EGIP gathers pace
Fleets: The invisible hand of the DfT (Railtalk)
Turkey:
Mercedes runs trains from Hungary to Turkey
Privatisation for TCDD
11/24
10/19
5/16
9/56
5/72, 6/50
9/50
1/6
7/84
1/73
U
Ukraine:
Crimea cut / Rail links to
2/85
University of Westminster:
Doncaster chord impact studied
United States of America:
California High Speed Rail Authority deal for consultants
California high-speed team / Network Rail Consulting in
11/19, 12/47
7/93
Supp.8/19
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‘Welcome’:
1/3, 2/3, 3/3, 4/3, 5/3, 6/3, 7/3, 8/3, 9/3, 10/3, 11/3, 12/3
‘Welcome’ replies:
West of England Joint Transport Board:
Henbury spur backed for Bristol
10/49, 11/48
9/10
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