£100m bat tunnel illustrates hs2’s fundamental faults

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Christian Wolmar still seems not to understand that ...

24 artificial badger setts… 75 bat boxes… 400,000 trees… and a railway. PHIL MARSH looks at the efforts to enhance the environment while building a 100mph link between Bicester and Bletchley

It’s the biggest upgrade of the Midlands rail network in the generation. But despite a recent government commitment, all is not what it seems. PETER PLISNER reports

Our final extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey through Two Centuries of British Railway History, 1825-2025 takes us to 2000… and an accident that would change the face of the railway

With a handful of trains now running, is all the work done on the first section of EWR? PAUL CLIFTON finds out