“a once-in-a-generation investment”

Digital technologies have changed our work and leisure lives. They’re also making our railway safer, cheaper, more efficient, and generally bigger and better.

HS2… Northern Powerhouse Rail… an “Elizabeth line for the North”. Why is more not being made of the Transpennine Route Upgrade’s potential to improve the region’s rail services?

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GARETH DENNIS imagines how railways will look over the next four decades, after DAVID STUBBINGS starts with this decade‘s reforms

JAKE KELLY, Managing Director of Network Rail’s North West & Central Region, discusses his first 100 days in the job with RICHARD WILCOCK, and what he is keen to achieve

About 10 years ago, I wrote a feature in Railways Illustrated asking if trainspotting was still a popular hobby and was it still enjoyable. Inspired by the popularity of The Greatest Gathering and per