Safety mitigations keep drivers on scotrail hsts

Scotland’s plan to decarbonise the railway will take a decade longer than previously thought, but what’s happening in Wales could point a way forward, suggests CONRAD LANDIN

Two weeks of shuttles to run between Lancashire and Carlisle while a bridge over the M6 is replaced

Pathfinder Railtours is facing a serious threat to its future after a series of poorly-selling trains combined with a mass of cancellations – sometimes because the trains were not breaking even and so

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

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

An ever-improving safety record is no accident - it’s all about learning from mistakes, with every tragedy teaching the railway something new.