IT’S BEEN a bad month for our railways. In fact a very bad month, with so much adverse publicity stemming from a variety of problems – some of them self-inflicted. The big news was the
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Category: Editor’s Intro
Surplus trains could form a niche fleet
IN THE August 2016 issue of The RM we reported around 35 miles of siding space was needed to store the carriages being made redundant by new trains. Further new train orders, coupled with the
Read moreGoing beyond the call of duty
THERE was plenty of warning of the snow and freezing temperatures that the storm dubbed the ‘Beast from the East’ (and its successor a couple of weeks later) was to bring to Britain. No matter
Read moreHow hard is it to design a comfortable train seat?
MAYBE the question should be how difficult is it, as an increasing number of passengers are finding the seats on the rising numbers of Class 700 and 800 trains entering service very hard. Having experienced
Read moreWill anyone speak up for the rail industry?
DURING the Christmas and new year period, railways were very much in the news: not all of it was good. News of the decision by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to terminate the East Coast franchise
Read moreKenilworth: Playing the blame game…
A NEW station at Kenilworth was due to open in December 2017. It has already missed two previous opening dates and now might open in February 2018 – more than a year late. The missed
Read moreThe value of Community Rail
IT’S difficult to put a precise value on what more than 60 community rail partnerships and 1,000 station adoption schemes have brought to both urban and rural lines. More than 3,200 volunteers, working regularly as
Read more‘Throwaway’ rolling stock policies are totally crazy
THE past few months have seen a number of notable orders for new rolling stock, and while very welcome it raises a number of questions, not least what happens to that not-so-old rolling stock that
Read morePraise in different ways
OLD Oak Common held an open day at the beginning of September – and what a magnificent event it was. However, the pictures of the wonderful array of locomotives (see p36) tell just part of
Read moreInvest in rail freight rather than trial the ‘platooning’ of lorries
THE Government’s announcement it is to trial ‘platooning’, with as many as three wirelessly connected HGVs travelling in close convoy – with all acceleration, braking and steering controlled by a driver in the lead vehicle
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