Green Signals23 Tammi 2025

68. Forget trains, roads are the way forward! Wait… what?!

Forget trains, roads are the way forward – or that seems to be the message from the National Infrastructure Commission’s Chairman Sir John Armitt CBE at a recent Transport Select Committee session.

… Not helped by news reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is considering scaling back rail spending. Big time.

And we starting investigating what’s going on with planned upgrades on the West Coast Main Line and the Trilink project.

In this episode:

(00:00) Intro

(00:35) Sir John Armitt at the Transport Select Committee

(19:15) Rachel Reeves news reports

(25:00) West Coast Main Line upgrades

(32:47) Rail Partners, Andy Bagnall interview clip

(35:23) RMT’s Mick Lynch to retire

(39:41) Thanks to Super Thanks and Members

(40:53) Railway News Round-Up

(40:55) Bridge strike technology

(42:12) A303 tunnel alternatives

(43:52) Northern looking for 450 new trains

(44:50) RAIB report into Stratford fatality

(47:32) Contactless ticketing roll-out in the South East

(48:07) First Rail open access report

(50:19) The Quiz

(53:18) Southern engineer has art sent to the moon

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Credits:

Photos & video - NASA, Southern Railway, Parliament.tv,Telerail, Network Rail, RAIB, Edward FeePresenters - Nigel Harris (@railnigel on X) & Richard Bowker CBE (@SRichardBowker). General Manager: Stef Foster (@stefatrail)

Image Credits (unless stated on Image itself):

Rocket launch of Edward Fee's Digital Art - NASA
Edward Fee's Digital Art - Edward Fee
Images of Edward Fee - Southern Railway
Screengrab of of Connecting South West England - Greengauge / Transport Action Network
Bridge Strikes at Grantham and graphic of bridge strike monitoring tech - Network Rail

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