EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE

The effects of two years of storage delay the introduction of diesel multiple units in Devon and Cornwall

GERALD CORBETT, chief executive of Railtrack from 1997 to 2000, speaks exclusively to CHRISTIAN WOLMAR, in conjunction with the Calling All Stations podcast, about his time in the industry which included two major accidents at Ladbroke Grove and Hatfield

Sixty years ago this month, on March 6 1966, the Western Region achieved two major goals with the end of both steam power and the Somerset & Dorset route – bringing a mighty era to a rather grubby end.

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A “farce” and a “scandal” as the wait for Oxford-Milton Keynes passenger trains shows no sign of ending