Daily Archives: September 4, 2024

Public Ownership Rail Reform on Track

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh fired the starting gun on rail reform – ushering in a new era for our railways which puts passengers first. Yesterday’s launch of Shadow Great British Railways (Shadow GBR) will set in motion a huge overhaul of the running of the rail network, bringing together leaders from the Department for Transport, Network Rail and publicly-owned operators.…

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Let’s Make A Train (3)

Quite A Few Bits Missing? We have been following the “manufacture” of Anglia Railways’ class 720 trains at Litchurch Lane works in Derby. Our slightly unreliable guide has been Gregg (Wow!) Wallace as presenter of the BBC2 series “Inside the Factory”. Yesterday saw the completion of a raw body shell, the aluminium “tube” that constitutes the main structural part of…

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