HS2: What will it be like for passengers? West Coast Partnership Development interview
Amongst all the HS2 construction updates, one important thing has been missing. What is HS2 actually going to be like for passengers? When will we see HS2 trains running? What will the customer experi...
18 Feb 202537min
How to celebrate Railway 200 in 2025
2025 is a big year for the railway. It’s the 200thanniversary of the Stockton & Darlington railway, which is generally considered the world’s first commercial railway venture.Celebrations are getting ...
17 Feb 202516min
71. Is a Virgin Trains comeback on the West Coast Main Line about to be crushed?
Is a Virgin Trains comeback on the West Coast Main Lineabout to be crushed?And the Department for Transport strongly objects to a swarm of other open access applications in a letter to the Office of R...
13 Feb 20251h 3min
70. HS2’s incredible 4.5k tonne deck slide at Small Dean & semaphore signals in Shrewsbury
An HS2 construction update this week with the completion of an incredible 4,500 tonne deck slide for a viaduct at Small Dean in BuckinghamshireRichard takes a trip to see the wonderful semaphore signa...
6 Feb 20251h 1min
69. Chancellor Rachel Reeves and the speech of eternal ‘rubbish’
Has Chancellor Rachel Reeves given the economy the growth serum it needs, or is she on a planet looking increasingly like it’s far, far away?Great British Railways could have the ‘scale and impact’ of...
30 Jan 20251h 4min
“Government has made a BIG mistake” Rail Partners CEO Andy Bagnall interview
Rail Partners is a trade body that was set up to promote and focus on the interests of the private sector train operators, both passenger and freight, on the railway. But it has become a casualty of t...
28 Jan 202543min
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.… N...
23 Jan 202555min
The new £5M railway being built in Wales – Bala Lake Railway extension (Snowdonia)
A brand new railway is being built in Wales. They have theland. They have the planning permission. Some of the ballast is even laid. All they need is the rest of the money to finish it and they can re...
21 Jan 202539min
