Here’s a great chance for you to put forward your thoughts on how our local railway stations could be improved.
Network Rail is asking the public for its opinion on the future of Britain’s 2,000 railway stations, and is offering respondents the chance to win an annual season ticket or £2000 in cash.
As owner and operator [...]
When the Northern franchise was let 6 years ago, it was let on what the Department for Transport (DfT) called “Steady State”. What it meant was the franchise would be run with no improvements to services and on the assumption there would be no growth and no new or replacement trains. Thus at the end [...]
An article on Tram/Train appeared in our Summer 2009 “Rail Report”.
In brief “tram/train” is a concept where the “trains” involved can run on both conventional (heavy rail) railway lines as well as on tramway systems with their lighter rail and tighter curves. The best example of this is Karlsruhe in Germany, where this has [...]
I went to the fringe meeting on “The future of rail in the north – our vision for travel and the economy” last Monday evening. Chaired by TV Presenter, Andy Crane, the speakers were Cllr Ian Macdonald, GMITA (GMPTA, as was) Vice Chair, Paul Plummer, Director – Planning & Regulation, Network Rail, Edward Timpson, [...]
GMPTE have very kindly sent MCRUA some tickets for the following meetings (both are outside the “secure area”):
- The All Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group. Committee Room 1, Manchester Town Hall, Monday 5 October, 1pm – 2pm. Chair: Graham Brady MP, Speakers: Stephen Hammond MP, Shadow Transport Minister, Councillor Ian Macdonald, Vice Chairman, GMITA, Richard Montagu, [...]
Network Rail has unveiled its study into a 200-mph high-speed rail network which would halve travel time between London and Scotland to just over two hours.
The £34bn proposal would serve Birmingham, Warrington, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Glasgow and Edinburgh from central London, with a journey time of two hours and 16 minutes between London and Glasgow, and just [...]
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